Acknowledgements
I composed this book by writing articles on its theme and submitting them for publication. Because of this, I am particularly grateful to the reviewers whose suggestions helped me to see the lacunae in my submissions and, thus, improve their content. I am also grateful to the publishing houses, periodicals, and persons who own the rights to these articles for their kind permission to republish all or part of them. In particular, I acknowledge that material from the following articles has been included: “Patočka and Artificial Intelligence,” in Jan Patočka and the Heritage of Phenomenology: Centenary Papers, eds. Ivan Chvatik and Erika Abrams, Dordrecht; Springer Verlag, 2010, pp. 111–120; “The Question of Naturalizing Phenomenology,” Symposium, Journal of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, vol. 17, no. 1 (Spring 2013), pp. 210–228; “The Temporality of Merleau-Ponty’s ‘Intertwining,’” in Corporeity and Affectivity, ed. Karel Novotný, Leiden; Brill Academic Publishers, 2013, pp. 47–59; “The Intertwining as a Form of our Motion of Existence,” Chiasmi International, 2013, pp. 47–59; “Embodied Temporalization and the Mind-Body Problem,” Quaestiones Disputatae Vol. 7, No. 1 (Fall 2016), pp. 109–123; “Self-Touch and the Perception of the Other,” in Metaphysics of Sight and Phenomenology, eds. Antonio Cimino & Pavlos Kontos, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2015, pp. 224–237; “The Intertwining of Generations: Merleau-Ponty’s Chiasm as a Paradigm for Understanding Intergenerational Relations,” in In statu nascendi, ed. Tatiana Shchyttsova, Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH, 2012, pp. 146–157; “Public Space and Embodiment,” Studia Phaenomenologica, special issue on Phenomenon of Body / Phenomenology of Embodiment, 2012, pp. 209–224; “Patočka’s Transformation of Phenomenology,” acu Interpretationes Studia Philosophica Europeanea, 2017/1, pp. 102–116; “Violence and Blindness: The Case of Uchuraccay,” in Phenomenologies of Violence, ed. Michael Staudigl, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2013, pp. 145–155; “Senseless Violence: Intertwining and Liminality,” The European Legacy, 2017, pp. 1–20; “Violence and Existence, An Examination of Karl Schmitt’s Philosophy,” Continental Philosophy Review (Dordrecht; Springer, 2017), pp. 1–20; “The Intertwining of Binding and Unbinding in the Religions of the Book,” in Beyond Myth and Enlightenment, Phenomenological Reconsiderations of Religion, eds. Ludger Hagedorn and Michael Staudigl, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, vol. 17, no. 2 (Spring 2018), published online at http;//www.jcrt.org/archives/17.2/; “Transcendence and Intertwining,” Bogoslovni vestnik (Theological Quarterly), 77, 3/4 (2017), pp. 477–487; “The Animal and the Divine: The Alterity that I Am,” Studia Phaenomenologica, xvii (2017), pp. 177–200. Grateful acknowledgement