Part I The Philosophy of Jan Patocka.- Jan Patocka's Concept of Boredom and Everydayness.- Patocka's Philosophy of Meaning in Literature and Myth.- Patocka's Heresy: The Chorismos as Negative Freedom: The Problematization of Truth - Philosophy, Politics and History.- Part II Phenomenology of Perception: Merleau-Ponty.- How to Turn Around Trouble: Phenomenological Aesthetics, Merleau-Pontean Institution, and the Metaphor of "Woman"-as-Hinge.- Phenomenology and the Relationship between Philosophy and the History of Philosophy: A Critical Remark with Reference to Bernhard Waldenfels' Reception of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception.- Le Corps Propre in the World of Perception: Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Human Reality.

- Part III Phenomenology and Individual Agency.- The Primordial Insight into "Mediality" and the Contours of a "Medial" Philosophical Anthropology.- From Success to Excess: A Reflection on the Current Experience of Time and the Limits of Socio-individual Agency.- The Abysmal and Sleepless Blink of Being.- Holistic View of the World: Interdisciplinary Nature of Music and Human Experience.- Part IV Phenomenology and Aesthetics.- The Heteromorphic Sublime.- The End of Aesthetics.

- The Possibilities of Aesthetic and Ethical Sensibility in Light of the Primordial Sense of Philosophizing.- Gadamer: Between Tradition and Beauty.- Part V Phenomenology in Practice.- Art as Creative Energy and Comprehension of the World: Jan Patocka's Considerations on Artistic Education.- Phenomenological Ambiguity in Ibsen: A Doll's House, Ghosts and Hedda Gabler.- ANDENKEN: Hölderlin on the Caesura of Eros and Mourning.- Merleau-Ponty Between Image and Text: Origins, Ends and the Play of Meaning.- Spiritualization of the Body and Possible Revelation of Being in Birth Giving Petroglyphs near Big Bend National Park.

- Experiential Nature of Music, Lived Experience, Musicality and Edith Stein's "Empathy Theory".- Anna Letitia Barbauld and the Process of Genius.