ABSTRACT
The Introduction serves to place the current volume in the unfolding 21st century and in the context of my previous works (now including six books and numerous articles), all published since the millennium. It can be read as a stand-alone work or as a part of what has become an unfolding exploration. The book focuses on the complex relations between World and Self, Heidegger's Mitwelt and Umwelt. It relates the individual to the political, social, and epidemiological issues of our time and goes on to offer brief synopses of the five chapters that make up the book; Chapter 1, So Why do We Need Philosophy Anyway? Phenomenology, Postmodernism, and the Plague in the Psychoanalytic Workplace; Chapter 2, The Evo-Devo of Phenomenology and Prephenomenology; Chapter 3, Postphenomenology and its Evo-Devo; Chapter 4, Consciousness and Unconsciousness: A Fresh Appraisal; and Chapter 5, Death and Death Anxiety—A Further Search for Meaning.
