Includes bibliographical references and index.

The solicitude of the father : Franz Brentano's ethics of social renewal -- A true and better 'I' : Edmund Husserl's call for worldly renewal -- Phenomenology without reduction : the realism of the original phenomenological movement -- The blueprint of a new heart : Max Scheler and the order of love -- Philosophy en plein air : interwar social and ethical phenomenology -- Interlude : phenomenology and East European dissidence -- The point of view of life : Czechoslovak phenomenology through the Prague Spring -- The far reaches : Jan Patočka's transcendence to the world -- The definitive no : phenomenology and Czechoslovak resistance to impersonal power -- The radiation of humanity : Karol Wojtyła's phenomenological personalism -- The light of values : phenomenological ramifications in Polish dissidence.

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When future historians chronicle the twentieth century, they will see phenomenology as one of the preeminent social and ethical philosophies of its age. The phenomenological movement not only produced systematic reflection on common moral concerns such as distinguishing right from wrong and explaining the status of values; it also called on philosophy to renew European societies facing crisis, an aim that inspired thinkers in interwar Europe as well as later communist bloc dissidents. Despite this legacy, phenomenology continues to be largely discounted as esoteric and solipsistic, the last gas.