Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Susi Ferrarello and Christos Hadjioannou

PART I

Mindfulness in the Western Traditions

1 Pyrrhonian Epoche, Mindfulness, and Being-in-the-World

Georgios Petropoulos

2 Mindfulness as Motivation for Phenomenological Reduction

Ming-Hon Chu

3 A Levinassian Critique of Mindfulness

Pierrick Simon

4 Merleau-Ponty and Mindfulness

Timothy Mooney

5 Husserl and Mindfulness

Susi Ferrarello

6 Logoi of the Soul: Phenomenological Mindfulness in Plato’s Phaedrus

Tanja Staehler

7 Heideggerian and Stoic Mindfulness: Two Competing Models with Common Ground

Christos Hadjioannou

PART II

Mindfulness in the Eastern Traditions

8 Radical Relationality: A Philosophical Approach to Mindfulness Inspired by Nishida Kitar?

Francesca Greco

9 Phenomenological Insights from Postural Yoga Practice

Hayden Kee

10 A Phenomenology of Mindfulness Practice in Sufism

Marc Applebaum

11 Deluded Mindfulness

Jason Dockstader

12 Deconstructing Mindfulness: Heidegger, Tanabe, and the Kyoto School

Kurt C.M. Mertel and Samuel S. White

PART III

Mindfulness, Ethics, and Well-Being

13 Could Mindfulness Be Short on Meaning?

Luce Irigaray

14 Freeing Ourselves from Technology: Rethinking Mindfulness

Lisa Foran

15 ‘Let It Be’: Heidegger and Eckhart on Gelassenheit

Dermot Moran

16 Mindfulness as Open and Reflective Attention: A Phenomenological Perspective

Diego D’angelo

17 Mindfulness As Ethical Practice: Levinas’ Phenomenology and Engaging with the World

Nikolaus-Palle Carey

PART IV

Mindfulness, Time and Attention

18 Contrasting Emotions and Notions of Temporality in Mindfulness Practice and in Heidegger’s Phenomenology

Evie Filea

19 Varieties of Self-Consciousness in Mindfulness Meditation

Odysseus Stone

20 Husserl on Emotional Expectations and Emotional Dispositions Towards the Future: A Contribution to Mindfulness Debates on Present Moment Awareness and Emotional Regulation

Celia Cabrera

21 Being Mindful about Nothing

Mahon O’brien

22 The Respiratory Context of Dukkha and Nirvana: The Buddha’s Mindful Phenomenology of Breathing

Petri Berndtson

PART V

Mindfulness and Embodiment

23 Between Phenomenology and Mindfulness: The Role of Presence in the Clinical and Therapeutic Context

Anya Daly and Chris Mccaw

24 Heidegger’s Gelassenheit as Embodied Mindfulness

Tomas Lally

25 Parallel Lives of Buddha and Socrates: On Epoche as Transcendental Transformation

Carlos Lobo

26 Being Mindful of the Other

Magnus Englander

PART VI

Applications: Mindfulness In Life

27 Mindfulness and the Phenomenology of Aesthetics: Reappraising Dufrenne and Merleau-Ponty

Colleen Fitzpatrick

28 Mindfulness and Creativity: The Impact of Michel Henry and Otto Rank on Psychoanalysis

Max Schaefer

29 The Mindfulness of Sacrifice: Towards a “Phenomenology” of History

Joseph Cohen

30 Engaging with Life Mindfully

Gerhard Thonhauser

31 Meditation, Lucidity, and the Phenomenology of Daydreaming

James Morley

32 Thinking Being: The Educational Scope of a Fruitful Convergence Between Phenomenology and Mindfulness

Eduardo Caianiello

PART VII

Conclusion: Mindfulness and Phenomenology?

33 Phenomenology and Mindfulness-Awareness

Natalie Depraz, Claire Petitmengin, and Michel Bitbol

34 Mindless Obfuscation: A Reply to Depraz, Petitmengin, and Bitbol

Odysseus Stone and Dan Zahavi

35 Mindful Clarification: Why It Is Necessary to Reply

Once Again to Stone and Zahavi 508

Natalie Depraz, Claire Petitmengin, and Michel Bitbol