The first part of this collection, “Emerging Life,” concentrates on the question of the origin in Husserlian phenomenology. The second part, “Generations,” is focused on the concreteness of time. The last part of the book, “Homes,” takes space rather than time as the most fundamental phenomenological concept.

Generative Worlds. New Phenomenological Perspectives on Space and Time accounts for the phenomenological concept of generativity. In doing so, this book brings together several recent phenomenological studies on space and time. Generative studies in phenomenology propose new ways of conceiving space, time, and the relation between them. Edited by Luz Ascarate and Quentin Gailhac, the collection reveals new dimensions to topics such as the generation of life, birth, historicity, intersubjectivity, narrativity, institution, touching, and places, and in some cases, the contributors invert the classical definitions of space and time. These transformative readings are fruitful for the interdisciplinary exchange between philosophy and fields such as cosmology, psychology, and the social sciences. The contributors ask if phenomenology reaches its own concreteness through the study of generation and whether it manages to redefine certain dimensions of space and time which, in other orientations of the Husserlian method, remain too abstract and detached from the constitutive becoming of experience.

Introduction. Generativity: Between Generation and Life

Luz Ascarate and Quentin Gailhac

Part I. Emerging Life

Chapter 1. Born to Oneself

Natalie Depraz

Chapter 2. Decision as Urstiftung

Bruce Bégout

Part II. Generations

Chapter 3. Between Generation and Genesis: A New Stiftung

Mariana Larison

Chapter 4. Generative Temporality

Claudia Serban

Chapter 5. Thinking Space-Time as Earth-World: Husserl, Heidegger, and DeLillo

Tanja Staehler

Part III. Homes

Chapter 6. On the Generation of Meaningful and Valuable Space: The Place of Feelings in Generativity

Andrew Barrett

Chapter 7. Phenomenology of the Book and Hermeneutics of the Text: Touching and Interpreting Space

Francisco Diez Fischer

Chapter 8. Belonging and Cosmology

Renaud Barbaras