Phenomenology and existentialism transformed understanding and experience of the Twentieth Century to their core. They had strikingly different inspirations and yet the two waves of thought became merged as both movements flourished. The present collection of research devoted to these movements and their unfolding interaction is now especially revealing. The studies in this first volume to be followed by two succeeding ones, range from the predecessors of existentialism - Kierkegaard/Jean Wahl, Nietzsche, to the work of its adherents - Shestov, Berdyaev, Unamuno, Blondel, Blumenberg, Heidegger and Mamardashvili, Dufrenne and Merleau-Ponty to existentialism's congruence with Christianity or with atheism.

This volume is devoted to phenomenology and existentialism and to their interaction

Theme.- Theme.- Section I.- Husserl and Phenomenology, Experience and Essence.- Jean Wahl the Precursor: Kierkegaard and Existentialism.- The Transcendental and the Singular: Husserl and the Existential Thinkers Between the Two World Wars.- DE L' ' In-Existence ' Intentionnelle À ? ' Ek-In-Sistence ' Existentielle.- The Value of the Question in Husserl's Perspective.- Section II.- The Essential Structure and Intentional Object of Action: Toward Understanding the Blondelian Existential Phenomenology.- Subjectivity, Openness and Plurality: on the Background of Edmund Husserl's Phenomenological Reduction.- What Does it Mean to be an Existentialist Today?.- Dufrenne and Merleau-Ponty: A Comparative Meditation on Phenomenology.- The Ethical Project and Intentionality in Edmund Husserl.- Is Nietzsche a Phenomenologist?-Towards a Nietzschean Phenomenology of the Body.- The Problem of Authenticity and Everydayness in Existential Philosophy.- Section III.- Lev Shestov's Philosophy of Crisis.- The Idea of God-Man in Nicolas Berdyaev's Existentialism.- Unamuno as "Pathological" Phenomenologist: Tragic Sense and Beyond.- Blondel and the Philosophy of Life.- Section IV.- From the Archeology of Happening ... to the Matter of Death.- The Phenomenology of Pain: An Experience of Life.- The Existential Overcoming of Phenomenology in Hans Blumenberg's Philosophy of Life and Myth.- Section V.- Temporality and Passivity in Edmund Husserl's Analyses.- On Existence, Actuality and Possibility.- The Consciousness of Time in Life Through Phenomenology and Existentialism.- Section VI.- Existentialism: An Atheistic or A Christian Philosophy?.- The Horizon of Humanity and the Transcendental Analysis of the Lifeworld.- Crisis and Culture.- Section VII.- Understanding asBeing: Heidegger and Mamardashvili.- Mind - Its Way of Existence, Structure and Functions in Tibetan Buddhism - Comparison with Phenomenology.