The solicitude of the father: Franz Brentano's ethics of social renewal -- A true and better 'I': Edmund Husserl's call for worldly renewal -- Phenomenology without reduction: the realism of the original phenomenological movement -- The blueprint of a new heart: Max Scheler and the order of love -- Philosophy en plein air: interwar social and ethical phenomenology -- Interlude: phenomenology and East European dissidence -- The point of view of life: Czechoslovak phenomenology through the Prague Spring -- The far reaches: Jan Patočka's transcendence to the world -- The definitive no: phenomenology and Czechoslovak resistance to impersonal power -- The radiation of humanity: Karol Wojtyła's phenomenological personalism -- The light of values: phenomenological ramifications in Polish dissidence.