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. Among the leading Husserlian
insights are treated essence and experience the place of questioning ethics and
intentionality temporality and passivity and the life world. The following book will uncover
the perennial concerns guiding the wondrous interplay of these two inspirational sources.
