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 Patocka and Roman Ingarden highlights the impact
on phenomenology by Eastern European thinkers. By addressing the limits and limitedness of
phenomenological reflection the authors remind us of temporality historicity linguality and
finitude of being a human being. They emphasize the indispensability of description and
interpretation with special attention to givenness which finds itself erected as the
self-justification of the phenomenon as such (Marion) and to clear and distinct ideas which
remain in-between concealment and unconcealment. By critically engaging Husserl and Heidegger's
claim that for the phenomenologist higher than actuality stands possibility and we can
understand phenomenology solely by seizing upon it as a possibility the editors successfully
engage and enjoin the readers on a genuine phenomenological path.
