Transcendental phenomenology presumed to have overcome the classic mind-body dichotomy in terms of consciousness. Should we indeed dissolve the specificity of human consciousness by explaining human experience in its multiple sense-giving modalities through the physiological functions of the brain? The present collection of studies addresses this crucial question challenging such "naturalizing" reductionism from multiple angles.

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Animality and Consciousness.- Nietzsche's Bestiary. Animal, Man, Superman.- Strange Kinship: Merleau-Ponty on the HumanAnimal Relation.- Husserl's Intersubjectivity and the Possibility of Living with Nonhuman Persons.- Vertigo and the Beetle out of the Box. On the Representation of Inner Mental States.- Bodies and More Bodies: Trying to Find Experience.- Sources of Humanity.- Nature and Men. The Common Destiny.- In Search of the Sources of Humanity.- The Historicity of Body and Soul.- In Search of Experience.- An Empirical Phenomenological Approach To Experiences.- The Ethics of Attention.- Between Animality and Intellection: Phenomenology of the Child-Consciousness in Proust and Merleau-Ponty.- Naturalistic and Personalistic Attitude.- Mamardashvili on thinking and sensitivity.- Moral Element of Experience.- The Ontopoietic Unfolding of Life A Conceptual System for an Ethics Focusing on the Bios.- Ontological Intentionality and Moral Consciousness in Human Experience.- Gibt Es Eine Ethik Der Lebenswelt?.- Traces Left by Levinas: Is Humanism of the Other Possible?.- On the subject of Heidegger: Existence, Person, Alterity.- The Creative Turn.- La Volonté Husserlienne En Tant Que Pouvoir Créateur.- Mental Experience and Creativity: H. Bergson, E. Husserl, P. Jurevi?s and A-T. Tymieniecka.- Learning and Creativity.- Education Without Paideia. A Phenomenological View of Education Today.- Creativity and Aesthetic Experience.- When the given becomes the Chosen.- Gadamer and the Traditionalist School on Art and the Divine.- Aesthetic Virtuality of the ArchitecturalNatural Landscape in Modern Communications.- Vitalogical Aesthetics. The Idea of Beauty in African Culture, Art and Philosophy.