Marco Cavallaro (Ph.D., University of Cologne) is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Philosophy of the University of Koblenz-Landau. He earned his Ph.D. degree with a thesis on Husserl's System of a Theory of Science (forthcoming). He has published several articles on Husserl and phenomenology, including in Husserl Studies, Phänomenologische Forschungen, and Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. He is co-editor of the volume Phenomenology of Phantasy and Emotions (WBG, 2022). His current research focuses on phenomenological ethics, philosophy of digitality, and philosophical anthropology. 

George Heffernan (Ph.D., University of Cologne) is Professor of Philosophy at Merrimack College. He specializes in phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics. He has presented numerous papers, including at the Husserl Circle, the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and the World Congress of Philosophy, and published numerous papers, including in Husserl Studies, The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, and Studia phaenomenologica. He has also published several books, including Isagoge in die phänomenologische Apophantik (in Phaenomenologica). He has received numerous awards, including from the Basselin Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

PART I: HISTORICAL HORIZONS OF PHENOMENOLOGY OF EXISTENCE

Chapter 1. Husserl, Heidegger, and Jaspers in the 1920s and 1930s

Chapter 2. Kierkegaard and Husserl

Chapter 3. Husserl and Heidegger on radical responsibility and authentic existence

Chapter 4. Transcendental phenomenology and existential phenomenology

PART II: BASIC OUTLINES OF HUSSERL'S PHENOMENOLOGY OF EXISTENCE

Chapter 5. Essence and existence in Husserl

Chapter 6. The individual and the universal in Husserl

Chapter 7. The existential situatedness of the transcendental ego

Chapter 8. Birth, death, and sleep: Limit problems and the paradox of phenomenology

PART III: PHENOMENOLOGY, EXISTENTIALISM, AND EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY

Chapter 9. Husserl's phenomenology of existence in Limit Problems of Phenomenology

Chapter 10. Husserl's transcendental phenomenology of ego, existence, and praxis

Chapter 11. Phenomenology, existence, and personhood

Chapter 12. Transcendental anthropology and existential phenomenology of happiness

Chapter 13. Existential dimensions of Husserl's late ethics

Chapter 14. Individualism and cosmopolitanism in Husserl's late ethics

Chapter 15. Husserl's "existentialist" ethics

Chapter 16. Husserlian ethics, embodied ethics, and feminist ethics

LITERATURE

INDEX

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS