Phenomenology of Life and the Human Creative Condition: Book I Laying Down the Cornerstones of the Field (Analecta Husserliana, 52)

Self-individualization has been interpreted as the process in which the all-embracing Self unfolds into an infinite variety of different individ­ uals, plants, animals and men. A comparison of the different ways in which the Self manifests itself in the biological and psychological devel­ opmental processes, or in a visionary image of the undivided Self, reveals the same basic structure of expression. The Self, the one, is represented by a circular domain, and comprises a basic inner duality, the two, creating a paradox of conflicting opposites. In the undivided Self the two give rise to a trinity in which, however, a quatemity is hidden. The latter expresses itself in this world as the four basic forces, the four Elements or the four main archetypes, specifying the possibilities or development in space and time. Self-individualization starts with the first appearance of a primary structure of an individual sub-Self. This is the fifth basic force, the fifth Element. Further development is character­ ized by four generative principles: 1st, the principle of wholeness: connection and integration (being oriented to remaining whole or restoring wholeness); 2nd, the principle of complementarity and com­ pensation (a periodic shift between opposing influences); 3rd, the enstructuring principle (causing the relative stability of the spatial appear­ ance of the manifest structure), and 4th, the principle of gesture (resulting in a gradual stepwise development of that structure into a full-grown individual). Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Great Plan of Life....Pages 3-29 Front Matter....Pages 31-32 Life as Logos and Tao....Pages 33-56 Logos, Telos and the Lived World....Pages 57-70 The Pseudo-Concepts Phenomenon and ΛOΓOΣ in the Phenomenological Philosophies....Pages 71-98 The Leibnizian Dimension of Husserl’s Phenomenology....Pages 99-114 Front Matter....Pages 115-116 The Intrinsic Value of Life and the Problem of Natural Teleology....Pages 117-132 Predetermination and Change in Living Beings....Pages 133-146 The Self-Individualization of Life....Pages 147-165 Emanuel Swedenborg’s Physical and Metaphysical Revelation....Pages 167-195 Metaphysics and Vitalism in Henri Bergson’s Biophilosophy....Pages 197-206 Front Matter....Pages 207-208 El Mito de la Subjetividad....Pages 209-228 Ortega Y Gasset’s Executive I and His Criticism of Phenomenological Idealism....Pages 229-247 Becoming of Ego and the Incarnated Subject....Pages 249-266 Reason in Vital Experience in Ortega Y Gasset....Pages 267-277 Front Matter....Pages 279-280 The Creative Source: Rodin....Pages 281-302 Visualizing Tymieniecka’s Poetica Nova ....Pages 303-315 Authenticity and Creativity....Pages 317-332 The Ontology of Artistic Time and the Phenomenology of Husserl....Pages 333-338 Front Matter....Pages 339-339 A Bridge to Temporality....Pages 341-368 Actio, Passio et Creatio in the Endliche und Ewige Philosophie of Edith Stein....Pages 369-386 Front Matter....Pages 339-339 Meister Eckhart on Temporality and the “Now”....Pages 387-395 Zen and Tymieniecka’s....Pages 397-402 Front Matter....Pages 403-404 The Imagination as the Origin of Science....Pages 405-410 From Mourning to Melancholy....Pages 411-418 Mimesis, Law and Medicine....Pages 419-432 Front Matter....Pages 433-434 A. Schütz: Phenomenology and Understanding Sociology....Pages 435-457 A Cultural Archaeology of the Insane Genius....Pages 459-473 Schizophrenia as a Problem of the Theory of Intersubjectivity....Pages 475-482 Règne Animal et Humain....Pages 483-503 Front Matter....Pages 505-506 Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Philosophy of Life and the Fostering of Ecological Thinking....Pages 507-516 Spirit in Flames....Pages 517-530 On the Mode of Being of Living Beings and Their Environment....Pages 531-547 Back Matter....Pages 549-561

There is a new rhythm permeating phenomenology, which is re-orienting towards the ontopoiesis of life. There are inflated views abroad that phenomenology has lost its identity and it is fashionable to consider that philosophy has abandoned the 'pursuit of truth', which is dismissed as illusory. But the phenomenological philosophy here reincarnated as the phenomenology of life and the human creative condition vibrates with a fresh philosophical faith. The present volume articulates the four main tenets of the ontopoiesis of life: first, the priority of the creative act over the cognitive intentional act; second, the revelation that the Human Creative Condition is pivotal in tracing specifically human powers; third, that the creative act of the human being is the meeting ground for all human endeavours; and fourth, the ontopoietic self-individualisation of life.