Books in the Analecta Husserliana series

With a wealth of papers in its pages, this book examines that fundamental of human philosophy, the relationship between human beings and time.

Philosophy, art criticism and popular opinion all seem to treat the aesthetics of the comic as lightweight, while the tragic seems to be regarded with greater seriousness.

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?

Inquiring into the logos of the phenomenological quest we discover, indeed, all the main constitutive spheres of reality and of the human subject involved in it, and concurrently, the logos itself comes to light in the radiation of its force (Tymieniecka).

This is the dilemma about learning which p- cess of lifelong learning is related to self-actualization. During teaching and learning processes teacher and learner should focus on the learning rather than the teaching.

The first of three volumes devoted to phenomenology, existentialism and their unfolding interaction, this book of fresh research covers the predecessors of existentialism and their adherents to existentialism's congruence with Christianity or atheism.

The second of three volumes devoted to phenomenology, existentialism and their unfolding interaction, this book explores the contemporary quests to elucidate rationality based on Kierkegaard's existentialism and on Husserl's phenomenology.

This fascinating spectrum of studies into the various rationalities of our human dealings with life - psychological, aesthetic, economic, spiritual - reveals their joints and calls for a new approach to truth.

In medicine the understanding and interpretation of the complex reality of illness currently refers either to an organismic approach that focuses on the physical or to a 'holistic' approach that takes into account the patient's human sociocultural involvement.

The nature of life consists in a constructive becoming (see Analecta Husserliana vol. In this selection of studies we proceed, in contrast, to envisage life in the Aristotelian perspective in which energia, forces, and dynamisms of life at work are at the fore.

Some might ask "Why Locke's theory of knowledge now?" Though appreciated for his social philosophy, Locke has been criticized for his work in the field of epistemology ever since the publication of the Essay.

The contemporary revival of interest in the Sacred as a category of philosophico-religious reflection here finds a radical reversal of the traditional direction, taking the Sacred as the starting point of the itinerary toward the Divine.

Rationality in its various expressions and innumerable applications sustains understanding and our sense of reality.

This collection is the final volume of a four book survey of the state of phenomenology fifty years after the death of Edmund Husserl.

In the midst of the current defiance of the transcendental certainties of cognition, this turn to the creative act of the human being represents a radical reversion to an approach to human powers that is predominated by the aesthetic virtualities of the Human Condition.

Literature seeks in numerous channels of insight the dominant threads of "the sense of life", "the inward quest", "the frames of experience" in reaching the inward sources of what we call 'destiny' inspired by experience and temporality which carry it on.

Experi ence, moreover, is approached in a specific way, such a way that it legitima tizes itself naturally in immediate evidence. In this way it allows a dialogue to unfold among various philosophies of different methodologies and persuasions, so that their basic assumptions and conceptions may be investigated in an objective fashion.

The following bibliography, arranged chronologically, permits the reader to follow the development of phenomenological studies in Italy in parallel with other, contemporary, cultural currents.