We propose to convene a series of three interlinked workshops about the philosophical notion of material intentionality as it relates to our ability to interpret the world, on the one hand, and to change it, on the other. The modifier, ‘material’, marks that the relevant ‘intentionality’ is precisely that of an embodied subject, who is embedded in a community other such subjects, whose lives are conducted socially in a constant metabolic interaction with the surrounding natural world. Our proposal builds on groundwork laid by an earlier workshop at the Paris Center, in April 2022. One theme that emerged in the first workshop is that, although it is conventional in American Universities to contrast “analytic philosophy” and “continental philosophy,” the latter term is a portmanteau, which refers to several distinct traditions of thought, including Marxism and Phenomenology. In the last hundred years, these two strands of the “continental” tradition have often been as hostile to each other as either has been to Analytic Philosophy. Moreover, while Marxism and Phenomenology are both significant movements in the French philosophical tradition, they are no less rooted in Germany. This requires us to expand and deepen our collaboration.