Böcker i Analecta Husserliana-serien

The second of three volumes devoted to phenomenology, existentialism and their unfolding interaction, this book explores the contemporary quests to elucidate rationality based on Kierkegaard's existentialism and on Husserl's phenomenology.

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Inquiring into the logos of the phenomenological quest we discover, indeed, all the main constitutive spheres of reality and of the human subject involved in it, and concurrently, the logos itself comes to light in the radiation of its force (Tymieniecka).

In the midst of the current defiance of the transcendental certainties of cognition, this turn to the creative act of the human being represents a radical reversion to an approach to human powers that is predominated by the aesthetic virtualities of the Human Condition.

This collection is the final volume of a four book survey of the state of phenomenology fifty years after the death of Edmund Husserl.

Rationality in its various expressions and innumerable applications sustains understanding and our sense of reality.

The contemporary revival of interest in the Sacred as a category of philosophico-religious reflection here finds a radical reversal of the traditional direction, taking the Sacred as the starting point of the itinerary toward the Divine.

Some might ask "Why Locke's theory of knowledge now?" Though appreciated for his social philosophy, Locke has been criticized for his work in the field of epistemology ever since the publication of the Essay.

The nature of life consists in a constructive becoming (see Analecta Husserliana vol. In this selection of studies we proceed, in contrast, to envisage life in the Aristotelian perspective in which energia, forces, and dynamisms of life at work are at the fore.

In medicine the understanding and interpretation of the complex reality of illness currently refers either to an organismic approach that focuses on the physical or to a 'holistic' approach that takes into account the patient's human sociocultural involvement.

This fascinating spectrum of studies into the various rationalities of our human dealings with life - psychological, aesthetic, economic, spiritual - reveals their joints and calls for a new approach to truth.

Philosophy, art criticism and popular opinion all seem to treat the aesthetics of the comic as lightweight, while the tragic seems to be regarded with greater seriousness.

Having established in the ontopoiesis/phenomenology of life the creative function of the human being as the fulcrum of our beingness-in-becoming, let us now turn to investigate the creative logos.

With a wealth of papers in its pages, this book examines that fundamental of human philosophy, the relationship between human beings and time.

Situated at the crossroads of nature and culture, physics and consciousness, cosmos and life, history - intimately conjoined with time - continues to puzzle the philosopher as well as the scientist.

This volume marks a phase of accomplishment in the work of the World Phenomenology Institute in unfolding a dialogue between Occidental phenomenology and the Oriental/Chinese classic philosophy.

Prompted and ever diversified by the specifically human interrogative logos, scientific inquiries seek a common system of links in order to mutually confirm and rectify their results.

The Human Condition prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. It shows how natural forces and promptings of life transmute through creative Human Condition subliminal passions of the soul into innumerable streaks of spiritual significance.

Is it a small plot of land that we put aside to cultivate our favorite vegetables or to grow flowers for our personal enjoyment? The topic of the present volume is the mysterious ways in which Imaginatio Creatix plays within the human ingrowness in natural life, transposing dreams, nostalgias, and enchantments.

A collection of literary and philosophical inquiries, this work investigates Merleau-Ponty's categories of the visible and the invisible. These studies range from the 'hidden spheres of reality', to the play of the visible and the invisible left as traces in works of human genius, the origins of intellect and language, and others.

Medicine's crucial concern with health is perennial, but its reflection, concepts, means change with the advance of science and social life. The role of Tymieniecka's phenomenology of life is brought forth as the system of philosophical reference.

Their traditional prejudices dispersed under the pressure of new evidence, philosophy/phenomenology of life and the sciences of life meet in the Archimedean point of the human creative condition (proper to the phenomenology of life) and the role of the human subject (central to the scientific view of reality).

This collection brings to the public the fruits of the groundlaying work on the philosophy/phenomenology of life presented in some 30 volumes of the Analecta Husserliana, and inaugurates a new phase in philosophy/phenomenology - a truly radical turn.