Introduction

on living into the future

pp. 1-9

in: Simmons, James E. Hackett (eds), Phenomenology for the twenty-first century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Abstract

In this Introduction, J. Aaron Simmons offers an account of the guiding aims and orientations of the volume. Arguing that phenomenology must be considered as not only occurring in the twenty-first century, but as presented for the twenty-first century, Simmons suggests that the contributors to this volume all offer bold proposals for specific questions, themes, and thinkers that should receive sustained attention as the debates unfold in the coming decades. The specific themes of the book include justice and value, meaning and critique, emotion and revelation, embodiment and affectivity, pragmatism, and calling phenomenology into question.