"Back to Man Himself": The Philosophical Inspiration of Zurab Kakabadze -- I Historical Origins Revisited -- The Phenomenological Ontology of the Göttingen Circle -- II Man Constituting His Life-World: The Origin of Sense, Meaning, Objectivity, Transcendental Consciousness and Actual Existence -- The Formation of Sense and Creative Experience -- The Interrogation of Perceptive Faith -- The Concept of Attitude in Edmund Husserl's Philosophy -- Delineation and Analysis of Objectivities in Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology -- Meaning as the Reality of the World -- III Constitutive Consciousness, Transcendendentalism, and the Problem of "Actual Existence" -- Controversy about Actual Existence: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's Contribution to the Study of Roman Ingarden's Philosophy -- An Attempt to Reconcile Intersubjectivity with Transcendental Idealism in Edmund Husserl's Works -- The Ingarden-Husserl Controversy: The Methodological Status of Consciousness in Phenomenology and the Limits of the Human Condition -- Husserl's Transcendental Paradox and an Attempt at Overcoming It -- On Some Presuppositions of Husserl's "Presuppositionless" Philosophy -- IV Human Existence in its Moral Significance: The Origins of Morality, Values, Foundations -- Man's Existence in the Realm of Values -- The Ontology of Values: From Neo-Kantianism to Phenomenology -- Ontological Bases of Morality: Moral Realism and Phenomenological Praxeology -- Meaning in the Social World: A-T. Tymieniecka's Theory of the Moral Sense -- On Responsibility -- V The Aesthetic Significance of Life: Ontology, Aesthetic Perception, Hermeneutics, and the Life of the Work of Art Reflecting the Deepest Concerns of a Culture -- "What Is Our Life?" Cultural History and Aesthetic Experience in Literary Reception -- The Aesthetic Core of the Work of Art: The Boundaries of Its Phenomenological Description -- Victor Iancu's Phenomenology of Art -- The Ontology of Objects in Ingarden's Aesthetics -- De Interpretatione: New Creative and Existential Dimensions of Hermeneutics in Post-Modernism -- The Reception in Polish Literature of Roman Ingarden's Theory of Painting -- Common Humanity and the Present-Day Romanian Novel (Reflection and Refraction) -- VI Thought and Language -- Literary Semantics and the Concepts of Meaning and Sense -- The Limit and Reaching Beyond a Philosophico-Philological Investigation -- No Thinking Without Words -- On Roman Ingarden's Semiotic Views: A Contribution to the History of Polish Semiotics -- VII Prospects for an Adequate Phenomenological Anthropology: The Search for a "Method", the Natural World, Man's Self-Understanding -- Phenomenology and Self-Understanding in the Modern World: The Crisis of Modernity and the Possibility of a New and Critical Anthropology -- Un philosophe du monde naturel: Jan Pato?ka (1907-1977) -- The Creative Explosion of the Life-World in Schizophrenic Psychosis: Its Import for Psychotherapy -- Phenomenology as the Method of Contemporary Philosophical Anthropology -- VIII Man's Historical Existence and the Life of the Spirit: Teleology, the Other, Freedom -- The Teleological Structure of Historical Being (The Analysis of the Problem Made in Husserl's Work, Crisis in European Science and Transcendental Phenomenology) -- Husserl and Heidegger: Phenomenology and Ontology -- On the Paths of Cartesian Freedom: Sartre and Levinas -- Bibliographies -- Bibliography of Phenomenology in Poland -- Bibliography of Phenomenology in Yugoslavia -- Supplementary Bibliography of Phenomenology in Yugoslavia -- Index of Names.