Inaugural Lecture.- Phenomenology of Life and the New Critique of Reason: From Husserl's Philosophy to the Phenomenology of Life and of the Human Condition.- I Human Life, Existents, Beingness.- The Paradox of Human Life in the Thought of Miguel De Unamuno.- The Current of Living in the Existential-I-Subject According to the Philosophy of J. G. Fichte.- La cause de l'homme: Juste un individu.- Individuality and Universality.- On What Exists.- Ideal Objects and Skepticism: A Polemical Point in Logical Investigations.- II Philosophy of Life in Spanish Philosophical Thought.- Phenomenological "Life": A New Look at the Philosophical Enterprise in Ortega y Gasset.- Ortega - Phenomenologist.- Ortega's Philosophy and Modern Psychology.- Ortega y Gasset: On Being Liberal in Spain.- Society as Aristocratic: Towards a Clarification of the Meaning of "Society" in Ortega's The Revolt of the Masses.- III Life and Experience.- The Poetic Instinct of Life.- Creation and the Meaning of Life in the Thinking of Antonio Machado.- Notes on a Phenomenology of the Divine in Maria Zambrano.- IV Creativity, Self-Interpretation-in-Existence and Historical Praxis.- The Auto-Creation of Human Life in the Philosophy of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.- Art as Self-Interpretation-in-Existence in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.- Self-Interpretation-in-Existence and its Legitimation.- Man's Interpretation of Himself and Historical Praxis.- V Human Communication and Openness in the Life-World.- From the Phenomenological Notion of the World to its Existential Condition.- The Problem of Communication in Merleau-Ponty.- The Human Openness in Xavier Zubiri.- The "Life-World" and the Crisis of Psychology.- VI From Experience to Interpretation.- The Analytics of the "Dynamics of Horizons" inHusserl's Analysen zur passiven Synthesis.- The Mirror of Interpretations and Husserlian Discourse.- Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Logic of Ambiguity.- Existence and the Mirror: Reflections on Self-Perception in the Work of Merleau-Ponty.- VII Dialogical Experience and Intersubjectivity in Phenomenological Praxeology: Psychology, Psychiatry, and Medicine.- The Dialogical Experience: Transcendental Intersubjectivity and Communicative Praxis.- Ontologia de la existencia y conciencia moral en E. Tugendhat.- Subjectivity and Transcendence: Husserl's Criticism of Naturalistic Thought.- Aspects of Heidegger's Concept of Thought, Alienation and Enrooting.- Phenomenological Analysis of Autobiographical Texts: A Design Based on Personal Construct Psychology.- Medical Objectivism and Abstract Pathology: Two Critical Texts.- Concluding Part Humanism and the Opening of Reason Toward Life.- Husserl and Sartre: From Phenomenology to Integral Humanism.- Intentionality: Reality, Logos, and Open-endedness.- Phénoménologie explicative et herméneutique dans la philosophie de Maurice Merleau-Ponty.- Index of Names.

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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of "The World Phenomenology Institute".