The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Mindfulness

Susi Ferrarello is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at California State University, East Bay, USA. Among her books is the recently published The Ethics of Love (Routledge, 2023). She is also a philosophical counselor and writes for Psychology Today. Christos Hadjioannou is Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy at the Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus. He has edited volumes on Heidegger’s philosophy as well as on Irigaray’s philosophy. He is currently writing a monograph on Heidegger and the Stoics (forthcoming 2024).

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Susi Ferrarello and Christos Hadjioannou

PART I

Mindfulness in the Western Traditions

1 Pyrrhonian Epoché, 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 Kitarō

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: Lévinas’ 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

Tomás Lally

25 Parallel Lives of Buddha and Socrates: On Epochè 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