What can we expect of philosophy? -- Where is existentialism now? -- Karl Jaspers and Gabriel Marcel -- The 'new' existentialism -- Edmund Husserl: the founding father -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Erwin Straus -- Ludwig Binswanger and the development of Daseinsanalysis -- New dimensions in America: Rollo May et al. -- Naturwissenschaft and geisteswissenschaft: the debate on behaviour, F.J.J. Buytendijk and Helmuth Plessner -- Michael Polanyi and responsibility to life -- Philosophical anthropology and the humanities