Table of Contents

Introduction: Making Chinese Sense of Phenomenology.- 1. Time Zones: Phenomenological Reflections on Cultural Time.- 2. Krisis: The Power of Sense. Time, History and the Crisis of Western Culture in Husserl’s Phenomenology.- 3. The Human Sciences and Historicality: Heidegger and the Self-positioning of the Western Humanistic Tradition.- 4. Authentic Historicality.- 5. The Sociological Gaze and its Time Structure—A Sociologist’s Belated Encounter with Merleau-Ponty.- 6. Toward Revisioning Ricoeur’s Hermeneutic of Suspicion in Other Spaces and Cultures.- 7. Objectivity and Inter-Cultural Experience.- 8. Phenomenology of the Consocial Situation: Advancing the Problems.- 9. Intersubjectivity and Phenomenology of the Other: Merleau-Ponty’s Contribution.- 10. Personal Givenness and Cultural a prioris.- 11. Lifeworld, Cultural Difference and the Idea of Grounding.- 12. Empathy and Compassion as Experiential Praxis. Confronting Phenomenological Analysis and Buddhist Teachings.- 13. Heng and Temporality of Dao: Laozi and Heidegger.- 14. Self-Consciousness (Svasamvittibhaga) and Ego-Consciousness (Manas) in Yogacara Buddhism and in Husserl’s Phenomenology.- 15. Natural Realism, Anti-reductionism, and Intentionality. The “Phenomenology” of Hilary Putnam.- 16. Separation and Connection: Phenomenology of Door and Window.- Notes on Contributors.- Index of Names.