Table of Contents

My First Trip to India: A Personal Introduction Lester Embree Phenomenology and Indian Philosophy: The Concept of Rationality J.N. Mohanty Husserl and Indian Thought Karl Schuhmann Phenomenology and Indian Philosophy Sibajuban Bhattacharyya Advaita Vedanta on the Problem of Enworlded Subjectivity R. Balasubramanian An Indian Interaction with Phenomenology: Perspectives on the Philosophy of K.C. Bhattacharyya Kalyan Kumar Bagchi Phenomenology and Philosophy of History David Carr Freedom, Interpretation and Meaning in Human Sciences D.P. Chattopadhyaya Husserlian Foundations of Sartre's Treatment of Time Consciousness V.C. Thomas Analysis of I-Consciousness in the Transcendental Phenomenology and Indian Philosophy Anindita Niyogi Balslev Phenomenology and the Transcendent: Which Way Does One Transcend? Paulos Mar Gregorios The Paradox of Subjectivity and the Idea of Ultimate Grounding in Husserl and Heidegger Thomas M. Seebohm Experiment as Fulfilment of Theory Patrick A. Heelan 'Merleau-Ponty's Thesis of the Primacy of Perception and the Meaning of Scientific Objectivity' John J. Compton The World as the Ontological Project of Man Ramakant Sinari Technology as Cultural Instrument Don Ihde Nature and Life World: Towards a Hermeneutics of Nature R. Sundara Rajan Unity and Plurality of Cultures in the Perspectives of Edmund Husserl and Ernst Cassirier Ernst Wolfgang Orth Human Scientific Propositions Lester Embree Phenomenology of Human Relations: Some Reflections S.P. Banerjee Object, Objective Phenomenon and Objectivating Act According to the 'Vijnaptimatratasiddhi' of Xuanzang (600-664) Iso Kern Last Philosophy: Ideas for a Transcendental Phenomentological Metaphysics--Eugen Fink with Edmund Husserl, 1928-38 Ronald Bruzina Hermeneutics in Indian Philosophy Krishna Roy Reading the Rigveda: A Phenomenological Essay J.L. Mehta Speech and Writing in Heidegger's Philosophy S. Ijsseling Towards a Hermeneutic of Centrality in Indian Art Margaret Chatterjee Reflections on Papers D.P. Chattopadhyaya Contributors Index

About the Author

D. P. Chattopadhyaya is Chairman of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, India. Lester Embree is William F. Deitrich Eminent Scholar in Philosophy and President of the Center of Advanced Research in Phenomenology at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. Jitendranath Mohanty is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University.

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Phenomenology and Indian Philosophy addresses not only the basic theme of phenomenology, but its aesthetic, social, psychological, scientific, and technological aspects as well.