B. David, Emanuel: Lived Significance: Meaning, Vitality, and the Feeling of Being Alive

This work develops a phenomenological account of the reciprocal relation between meaning and existential vitality. Beginning from the question of whether human beings feel alive because they experience meaning, or experience meaning because they feel alive, the work argues against one-way accounts that make either bare existence the source of meaning or meaning the unilateral source of vitality. Instead, it proposes that meaning and vitality are reciprocally ordered in lived experience: meaning