Intertwinings: Exploring Intersubjectivity, Embodiment, and Alterity with James Mensch

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Contributors
About the Editors
About the Authors
Chapter 1: On Exploring the Intertwining: Engaging with the Thoughts and Writings of James Mensch
	1.1 A Fabric of Ideas: Text(ures), Tactile(s) and Traditions
	1.2 Structure of the Volume and Overarching Topics
	References
Part I: Reconfiguring Subjectivity
	Chapter 2: Another Beginning: On Birth, Childhood, and the Existential State of Being Human
		2.1 We Begin
		2.2 We Have Begun: Prenatal Movements
		2.3 We Are This Beginning: The Moment of Birth
		2.4 Every Difference Is Another Beginning: Rejection, Irreplaceability, and Event
		2.5 We Begin by Parting: Existing Space
		2.6 Parting Means Beginning: Existing Time
		2.7 I Begin
		References
	Chapter 3: Jan Patočka and James Mensch on World and Movement
		3.1 Introduction
		3.2 James Mensch on Movement in Patočka
			3.2.1 “Ontological Movement” as a Process of Appearing
			3.2.2 The Life of Nature
		3.3 Life and Movement
			3.3.1 Patočka’s Notes on the Ontology and Metaphysics of Movement
			3.3.2 The Life of the Inner as Movement
		3.4 Afterword
		References
	Chapter 4: The Path of Phenomenology: James Mensch and Jan Patočka on Subjectivity
		4.1 Introduction
		4.2 Husserl’s Path of Thinking
		4.3 Cartesianism
		4.4 The Anthropological Period
		4.5 Edmund Husserl
		4.6 The Crisis of Modernity as the Crisis of Subjectivity: Mensch and Patočka on the Problem of the Subject
		4.7 Conclusion
		References
Part II: Unthinking Embodiment and Its Implications
	Chapter 5: Self-Identity from the Perspective of the Body
		5.1 Introduction
		5.2 The Uniqueness of the Embodied Self
		5.3 The Anonymity of Bodily Self-Identity
		5.4 The Alterity of Bodily Self-Identity
		References
	Chapter 6: Paradigm Changes in Times of Pandemics, Embodied Vulnerability, and Responsibility
		6.1 Introduction
		6.2 Our Contemporary Lifeworld, the Pandemic, and Zoonosis: A Historical-Critical View
		6.3 From Machines to Organisms: Cognition and Autopoiesis, and the Subjective Perspective of the Animal World (Jakob von Uexküll)
		6.4 Lifeworld, Phenomenology, and Responsibility
		6.5 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 7: Merleau-Ponty’s Parallel Between Art and Philosophy: The Case of Poetry—from Baudelaire and Akhmatova
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 Philosophizing by Painting
		7.3 The Thing: “A Carcass”
		7.4 Metaphysics of Facticity
		References
Part III: Unfolding the Phenomenology of Time
	Chapter 8: Ego Splitting and Intuitive Presentifications
		8.1 Introduction
		8.2 The Status of the Ego in Phenomenology
		8.3 The Splitting of the Ego
		8.4 The Splitting of the Ego in the Field of Presentifications (Vergegenwärtigungen)
		8.5 Conscious and Unconscious Presentifications
		8.6 Absorption (Versunkenheit)
		8.7 Between Pure Wakefulness and Pure Absorption
		8.8 Concluding Remarks
		References
	Chapter 9: Intersubjective Constitution of Time in the C-Manuscripts
		9.1 The Phases of Husserl’s Research on Time
		9.2 Themes of the C-Manuscripts
		9.3 The Method of Reduction to the Living Present
		9.4 Is There an Equivalence Between the Reduction to the Living Present and the Transcendental Reduction?
		9.5 Intersubjective Constitution of Objective Time
		9.6 Difficulties in Synchronization—Individual Lifetimes
		References
	Chapter 10: In the Flow of Experience: Genetic Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, and the Pursuit of a New Subjectivity Model
		10.1 Introduction
		10.2 The Quest for a New Theory of Subjectivity
		10.3 The Phenomenological Discovery of the Subject
		10.4 The Person as a Subject in Genetic Phenomenology
		10.5 Personal Motivation: The Discovery of the Unconscious
		10.6 The Manifold Dimensions of the Unconscious as a Basis for a New Subjectivity Model
			10.6.1 The Descriptive Unconscious
			10.6.2 The Dynamic Unconscious
			10.6.3 The Relational Unconscious
		10.7 Conclusions
		References
Part IV: Probing the Foundations of the Ethico-Political
	Chapter 11: Empathy and Trust as Different Foundations of Ethics
		11.1 Friendship as the Space for Ethics
		11.2 Empathy
		11.3 Trust
		References
	Chapter 12: Living in: A Sketch for an Oikology
		12.1 Introduction
		12.2 The Being-in from a Corporeal Point of View
			12.2.1 The Borderline Body
			12.2.2 The Orienting Body
			12.2.3 The Meaning Body
		12.3 Oikos
			12.3.1 The House
			12.3.2 The Middle and the In-Between
			12.3.3 An Approach to an Oikology of Philosophy
		References
	Chapter 13: Pandemic Times and James Mensch’s Political Philosophy
		13.1 Introduction
		13.2 Ills, Plagues and the Time of the Viral
		13.3 James Mensch’s Transformed and Politicized Phenomenology
		13.4 Conclusion
		References
Part V: On Violence and the Wager of Dialogue
	Chapter 14: Shame: Experiencing, Enduring and Resisting the Violence of Vulnerability
		14.1 Introduction
		14.2 The Shame of Destruction
		14.3 The Privilege of Shame
		References
	Chapter 15: Jan Patočka on War: From Hysterical Men to the Solidarity of the Shaken
		15.1 Introduction: Patočka’s Two Interpretations of War
		15.2 The First Interpretation of War: The Point of View of Peace, Light and Life
			15.2.1 A War for the Techno-Scientific Mastery of the World
			15.2.2 Total Mobilization
		15.3 Psychiatric Interpretation of the Time
			15.3.1 Total Mobilization as a Healthy Society
			15.3.2 Diagnosis: Trauma or Hysteria?
			15.3.3 The Patient-Soldier as a Worker
		15.4 The Second Interpretation of War: The Point of View of War and Night
			15.4.1 First Phase of the Front Line Experience
			15.4.2 The Shaken Soldier-Patient as a Revolutionary
			15.4.3 The Solidarity of the Shaken
		References
	Chapter 16: The Affective Ambiguity of Violence: A Study in the Phenomenology of Spectacular Violence
		16.1 Basic Considerations
		16.2 Three Examples
		16.3 Unfolding Some Implications
		References
Part VI: Reconsidering Pathways
Chapter 17: Epilogue: “My Way into Phenomenology”
	17.1 Early Impulses
	17.2 Two Explanations
	17.3 Husserl
	17.4 Difficulties
	17.5 Responses
	17.6 Questions
	References