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Logos and Life: Creative Experience and the Critique of Reason

Introduction to the Phenomenology of Life and the Human Condition

Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana (ANHU, volume 24)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
  2. Foreground

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Structure of the Present Work

      • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
      Pages 8-17
    3. Man-the-Creator and His Triple Telos

      • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
      Pages 18-29
  3. The First Panel of the Triptych: The Eros and Logos of Life within the Creative Inwardness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
    2. The Outlines of an Inquiry

      • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
      Pages 33-39
    3. Creative Reality

      • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
      Pages 60-94
    4. The Factors in the New Alliance Between Man and the World

      • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
      Pages 95-112
  4. The Central Panel of the Triptych (Panel Two) The Origin of Sense: The Creative Orchestration of the Modalities of Beingness within the Human Condition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
    2. The Creative Context as Circumscribed by the Creative Process — Its Roots “Below” and Its Tentacles “Above” the Life-World: Uncovering the Primogenital Status of the Great Philosophical Issues

      1. Art and Nature: Creative vs. Constitutive Perception
        • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
        Pages 121-151
    3. The Trajectory of the creative Ciphering of the Original Life Significance: The Resources and Architectonics of the Creative Process

      1. The Incipient Phase of the Creative Process
        • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
        Pages 175-194

About this book

It is rare that we feel ourselves to be participating in history. Yet, as Bertrand Russell observed, philosophy develops in response to the challenges of socio-cultural problems and situations. The present-day philosophical endeavor is prompted not by one or two, but by a conundrum of problems and controversies in which the forces carrying life are set against each other. The struggles in which contemporary mankind is fiercely engaged are not confined, as in the past, to economic, territorial, or religious rivalries, nor to the quest for power, but extend to the primary conditions of human existence. They under­ mine man's primogenital confidence in life and shatter the intimacy of his home on earth. Philosophical reflection today cannot fail to feel the pressure of the current situation within which it unfolds. Since this situation now involves the ultimate conditions of human existence, its demands have at last given to philosophy the impetus and direction needed for conceiving that the first and last of its concerns should be life itself.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, Belmont, USA

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Logos and Life: Creative Experience and the Critique of Reason

  • Book Subtitle: Introduction to the Phenomenology of Life and the Human Condition

  • Editors: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

  • Series Title: Analecta Husserliana

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3915-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2539-4Published: 31 January 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2540-0Published: 31 January 1988

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3915-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0167-7276

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8330

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXX, 462

  • Topics: Phenomenology

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