The Promise of Phenomenology: Posthumous Papers of John Wild Book

Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xv
General Introduction: John Wild's Philosophical Itinerary     xvii
Note to the Reader     xxxvii
Explorations of the Human Life-World
Some Reflections on the Human Life-world     3
Frontiers of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy     11
An Empirical Approach to the A Priori     29
The Perceptual Time-lag and Lived Time     45
A Phenomenological Approach to Relativism     63
Conversations, Reflections and Beliefs
Conversations and Reflections: The Guggenheim Journal     81
The Things I Am Clear About in Philosophy     113
Editors' Appendix to Conversations, Reflections and Beliefs     121
Toward a Phenomenology of Transcendence
The Death of God and the Life of Man     131
Guilt     145
New Directions, a Philosopher at Work: Toward a Phenomenology of the Other
The Rights of the Other as Other     159
The Other Person: Some Phenomenological Reflections     169
Speaking Philosophy: John Wild's Commentary on Totality and Infinity     183
Letters     251
Letter from Harvard Colleagues to John Wild     251
Letter from Emmanuel Levinas to John Wild     252
Letter from Emmanuel Levinas toRichard Sugarman     254
Bibliography of John Wild's Posthumous Papers     257
Names     275
Categories     279
About John Wild     287
About the Editors     289