This book offers new reflections on the life world, from both phenomenological and hermeneutic perspectives. It presents a prism for a new philosophy of science and technology, especially including the social sciences but also the environment as well as questions of ethics and philosophical aesthetics in addition to exploring the themes of theology and religion.Inspired by the many contributions made by the philosopher Joseph Kockelmans, this book examines the past, present and future prospects of hermeneutic phenomenology. It raises key questions of truth and method as well as highlights both continental and analytic traditions of philosophy.Contributors to The Multidimensionality of Hermeneutic Phenomenology include leading scholars in the field as well as new voices representing analytic philosophers of science, hermeneutic and phenomenological philosophers of science, scholars of comparative literature, theorists of environmental studies, specialists in phenomenological ethics and experts in classical hermeneutics.

Babette Babich was born in New York City. She is author of The Hallelujah Effect. Philosophical Reflections on Music and Technology from KD lang to Nietzsche (London 2012); La fin de la pensée. Sur la différence et la politique de la désunion entre philosophie analytique et philosophie continentale (Paris 2011); Nietzsches Wissenschaftsphilosophie (Oxford/Bern 2010); 'Eines Gottes Glück, voller Macht und Liebe' (Weimar 2009); Words in Blood, Like Flowers: Philosophy and Poetry, Music and Eros (Albany 2006); Nietzsche e la scienza (Milan 1996); Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science (Albany 1994). She is a three-time Fulbright fellow and has written numerous articles and book chapters and edited several book collections on continental philosophy of science, art, and critical theory in addition to serving, since 1996, as Executive Editor of New Nietzsche Studies.