Recent discussions around limit-problems, namely the questions concerning what can appear in phenomenological reflection, as well as what phenomenology as philosophical reflection can handle, call for a concerted treatment of the problem of limit-phenomena. In this important new book, Anthony J. Steinbock, a leading voice in contemporary phenomenology, explores that question in the context of an interrelated series of problems in Husserls phenomenology. Representing a continued struggle with these insights and problems, the first section sketches out the problem of limit-phenomena, and addresses generally that rich estuary of liminal experience that commanded Husserls attention inhis research manuscripts. The book goes on to offer a correlative reflection on the issue of method and finally explores a specific set of what have been called recently limit-problems within phenomenology, relating to the problem of individuation and on a more personal level, vocation. This rich and timely volume offers an excellent demonstration of phenomenology in practice.

Anthony J. Steinbock is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Phenomenology Research Center at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His many publications include Moral Emotions (2014), Phenomenology and Mysticism (2007), Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology After Husserl (1995) and the English translation of Husserl's Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Synthesis (2001).

Preface / Part 1. Limit-Phenomena / 1. Limit-Phenomena and the Liminality of Experience / 2. From Immortality to Natality in Phenomenology: The Liminal Character of Birth and Death /Part II Generative Method /3. Generative Problems as Problems of theCrisis / 4. Spirit and Generativity: Phenomenology and the Phenomenologist in Hegel and Husserl /Part III. Individuation and Vocation /5. Individuation and the Possibility of Decisive Limits to Experience / 6.Vocational Experience and the Modality of the Absolute Ought / Postface / Notes and References / Bibliography