Inaugural Lecture: The Initial Spontaneity.- Prologue.- Initial Spontaneity and the Modalities of Human Life.- Discussion.- 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.- Discussion.- II / Rupture and Reconstruction.- Man and Values in Ingarden's Thought.- Continuité et discontinuité des valeurs.- Values and the Life-World in the Problem of the Crisis.- Identité personelle et la temporalité 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.- Discussion.- IV / From Reason to Action.- Phénoménologie et esthétique.- Personne, individu et responsabilité 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.- Discussion.- V / Complementary Essays.- Culture and Utopia in the Phenomenological Perspective.- Consciousness and Action: Husserl and Marx on Theory and Praxis.- Closing Remarks.