Inaugural Lecture: The Initial Spontaneity -- Prologue -- Initial Spontaneity and the Modalities of Human Life -- I / The Modalities of Human Life -- The World-Remoteness of the Text -- Affectivity and the Life World -- Special Contribution to the Debate: On History and the Life-World -- Special Contribution to the Debate: A Return to Experience or How to Kick the Habit -- II / Rupture and Reconstruction -- Man and Values in Ingardenโ{128}{153}s Thought -- Continuitรฉ et discontinuitรฉ des valeurs -- Values and the Life-World in the Problem of the Crisis -- Identitรฉ personelle et la temporalitรฉ du moi -- Special Contribution to the Debate: Theoria, Praxis, and the Crisis -- III / Alienation-Belonging -- Alienation and the Concept of Modernity -- The Religious Crisis of Our Culture -- Special Contribution to the Debate: Alienation and the Interpretative Framework -- IV / From Reason to Action -- Phรฉnomรฉnologie et esthรฉtique -- Personne, individu et responsabilitรฉ chez Edith Stein -- The Quest for Valid Knowledge in the Context of Society -- Special Contribution to the Debate: The Intentional Act and the Human Act, that is, Act and Experience -- Special Contribution to the Debate: The Conversion of Nature and Technology -- V / Complementary Essays -- Culture and Utopia in the Phenomenological Perspective -- Consciousness and Action: Husserl and Marx on Theory and Praxis -- Closing Remarks