The faces of contemporary phenomenology

Piotr Janik, Magdalena Kozak, Robert Grzywacz, Szczepan Urbaniak, Jan Patočka, Roman Ingarden

"Contemporary phenomenology addresses us and calls for a response. In a spirit of an existential responsibility, we recognize that the attestation of phenomenology can be recognized only by embracing the plurivocity of meaning, the witness of an unstable equilibrium between sympathy and suspicion. The collection of essays gathered by young Polish phenomenologists offers pertinent insights which fruitfully challenge Ricoeur's provocative statement that 'phenomenology in a broad sense is the sum of the works of Husserl and the heresies that derive from him.' The papers powerfully express the richness of phenomenological reflection 'to let what shows itself be seen from itself, just as it shows itself from itself.' (Heidegger) The dedication of the volume to the memory of Jan Patočka and Roman Ingarden highlights the impact on phenomenology by Eastern European thinkers. By addressing the...