The Development of Eco-Phenomenology as An Interpretative Paradigm of The Living World

Preface. Dr. DANIELA VERDUCCI, Co-President of The World Phenomenology Institute (European Division), University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy<div><br></div><div>PART 1. ENCHANTMENT OF LIFE, NATURE AND ONTOPOIETIC ECOSYSTEM&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Chapter 1. The Importance of Eco-phenomenology in the Understanding of Pandemic Crisis: New Turns and Concepts. Dr. habil. phil., MAIJA KŪLE, professor, senior researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 2. The Ontopoietic Phenomenology: Orchestrating an Ecological Vision of Life. CARMEN COZMA, professor, Department of Philosophy, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, Iaşi, Romania</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 3. Logos, Logic, and the Explication of Life. Dr. OLGA LOUCHAKOVA-SCHWARZ, Clinical Professor at the University of California, Davis Adjunct Lecturer in Spirituality and Phenomenology of Religion, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, USA</div><br><div>Chapter 4. People on the E(e)arth: Eco-Phenomenological Turns of Life and Vital life Understanding in Current Situation of Humanism/Post-humanism. Dr. phil. ELLA BUCENIECE, senior researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 5. The Body as an Ontopoietic Ecosystem that Somatizes Otherness. ROBERTO MARCHESINI, Centre Study for Post-human Philosophy, Bologna, Italy</div><div><br></div>Chapter 6. Sharing-in-Life: Man, Nature, Community. Dr. philol., ZAIGA IKERE, professor, University of Daugavpils, city Daugavpils, Latvia<div><br></div><div>Chapter 7. Conscious and Unconscious Life – the Origins of Unconsciousness. BENCE PETER MAROSAN, Budapest Business School, College of International Management and Business, Budapest, Hungary</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 8. Attitude and Neutralization. To the Origin of Fictions: “Being”, “Nothingness”, and “Time”. VICTOR MOLCHANOV, professor, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 9. The Concept of Life (Existence), Logos and Ontopoiesis. DOMINGUEZ REY ANTONIO, Departamento de Lengua Española y Lingűística General, Facultad de Filologia, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 10. Eco-Phenomenology and the Question of Being and Being-in -the -World. OLIVER HOLMES, Professor of European Intellectual History, Wesleyan University, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 11. The Harmony between Human and Cosmos as Problem of Sense. FRANCESCO TOTARO, professor, University of Macerata, city Macerata, Italy</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 12. My Pen is Smarter then Me. (On the background of existential phenomenology, phenomenology of life by Tymieniecka Anna-Teresa and on the phenomenology of&nbsp; human person by American philosopher&nbsp; Robert Sokolowski). Dr. phil. MAMUKA DOLIDZE, professor, Tbilisi Javakhishvili State university, Tbilisi, Georgia.</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 13.&nbsp; On Harmony. DEBIKA SAHA, Department of Philosophy, University of North Bengal, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PART II. HUMAN CONDITION IN THE PANDEMIC ENVIRONMENT: SPACES, DWELLINGS, FEELINGS AND SENSATIONS&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 14. Returning Home. ALGIS MICKUNAS, professor, Ohio University, USA</div><div><br></div>Chapter 15. Aesthetics of the Uncanny – Sacred Spaces and Environments.&nbsp;<div>THOMAS RYBA, Director of Religious Studies, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies and Philosophy at Purdue University, President of and Notre Dame Theologian for the Aquinas Educational Foundation</div><div>St. Thomas Aquinas Center, State West Lafayette, Indiana, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 16. Psychic Involvements and Spiritual Reactions at Time of the Pandemic Disease. A Phenomenological Philosophical and Psychopathological Approach. ANGELA ALES BELLO, professor, Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, Italy</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 17. Phenomenology of Forms of Dwellings: The Self, Others and the Uncanny. Dr. phil., IGORS ŠUVAJEVS, professor, senior researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 18. The Phenomenology of the In - Visibility of Coronavirus. Dr. phil. ULDIS VĒGNERS, senior researcher, assistant professor, Riga Stradins university, Riga, Latvia</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 19. Breathing: the Ambiguities of Corporeal Nexus in Times of Pandemic. GINTA VĒJA, researcher, lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 20. Phenomenology of Ambient Urbanism. Earth and Sky. Dr. habil. phil. MĀRA RUBENE, professor, senior researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia</div><div><br></div><div>PART III. WE-CONSCIOUSNESS, BEING TOGETHER AND THE NEED FOR ECOLOGICAL SOLIDARITY</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 21. Dialectics of Openness and Closeness during the Quarantine. Dr. phil., TOMAS KAČERAUSKAS, prof. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 22. Eco-phenomenological Interpretation of Autonomous Being in the Time of Pandemic and Eco-anxiety.&nbsp; Dr. habil. phil. MAIJA KŪLE, professor, senior researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia</div><div><br></div>Chapter 23. Virtual Collectivities at the Age of Pandemics: Phenomenological Analysis of Being Alone Together. Dr. phil. TONU VIIK, professor, Tallin University, Tallin, Estonia<div><br></div><div>Chapter 24. Unity in Diversity: The Experience of Borderline Situations and the&nbsp;</div><div>Courage to Be. The Existential Approach to the Pandemic Times. Dr. Phil. ANNA MALECKA, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland and Dr. Phil. PIOTR MROZ, Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 25. Varieties of Distancing Experience. Dr. phil. VELGA VĒVERE, professor, senior researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 26.&nbsp; Mark your Distance! Do not Anybody Touch Me! Phenomenological Intersubjectivity or Postmodern Approach?&nbsp; Dr. phil. INETA KIVLE, vice-director of the Academic Library, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 27. Together and Apart: Variations on the Husserl's Fifth Cartesian Meditation in the Coronavirus Pandemic. Dr. phil. TOMAS SODEIKA, professor, LINA VIDAUSKYTĖ, Dr. phil., Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 28. The Human Condition of Being in Horror: Radiation, Terrorism, Viruses. Dr. phil. MĀRIS KŪLIS, senior researcher, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 29. The State of Mental Health During the Pandemic Crisis and Forced Isolation. GIULIO LO BELLO, lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 30.&nbsp; An Eco-phenomenological Reading of Ben Okri's A Fire in My Head. ROSEMARY GRAY, professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa</div><div><br></div>