The Reincarnating Mind, or the Ontopoietic Outburst in Creative Virtualities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Bringing Forth Some Basic Points of Human Creativity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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   2. Road-Signs to “Creativity”

      • J. J. Venter

      Pages 3-27

   3. How I Went Up to Image Phenomenology and Came Down Entangled …

      • Patricia Trutty-Coohill

      Pages 29-33

   4. Art as Moral Gamble

      • Slawomir Magala

      Pages 35-47

   5. The Creative Virtuality of Negritude in Brazilian Literature

      • Nancy Campi De Castro

      Pages 49-58

   6. Being and the Creative Power of Language (The Late Heidegger)

      • Alexander Pigalev

      Pages 59-72

3. Experience, Judgement, Imagination, Emotion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-74

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   2. Beyond Semiological Reductionism

      • M. C. Dillon

      Pages 75-88

   3. From Experience to Judgment in the Aftermath of Postmodern Critique

      • Calvin O. Schrag

      Pages 89-95

   4. Transversal Rationality, Rhetoric, and the Imagination

      • Ramsey Eric Ramsey

      Pages 97-107

   5. Poetry and Emotion

      • Willis Salomon

      Pages 109-121

   6. Landscape and Alienation in the Late Nineteenth Century

      • Michelle Facos

      Pages 123-129

   7. The Unbearable Lightness of Sacrifice

      • Alin Cristian

      Pages 131-140

4. Infusion of the Aesthetic Sense Into Human Experience

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-142

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   2. Telling Stories

      • Lawrence Kimmel

      Pages 143-154

   3. Considering Die and Death

      • Alberto Carrillo Canán

      Pages 155-180

   4. The Phenomenological Motives of Heidegger’s and Gadamer’s Hermeneutics of the Literary Text

      • Saīd Tawfīk

      Pages 181-207

   5. Language and Experience

      • Danuta Ulicka

      Pages 209-212

   6. A Hermeneutic Inquiry into Heidegger’s Gelassenheit

      • Gary McNeely

      Pages 213-232

Tymieniecka's phenomenology of life reverses current priorities, stressing the primogenital role of aesthetic enjoyment, rather than cognition, as typifying the Human Condition. The present collection offers clues to a crucial breakthrough in the perennial uncertainties about the powers and prerogatives of the human mind. It proposes human creativity as the pivot of the mind's genesis and its endowment. 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. The collection lays down the foundations for a new discovery of the human mind, addressing the `plumbing' of the functional system that originates in the creative potentiality of the Human Condition, undercutting the currently prevalent empirical reductionism.

• Edmund Husserl
• Martin Heidegger
• Roman Ingarden
• aesthetics
• concept
• hermeneutics
• phenomenology
• probability

• The World Phenomenology Institute, USA

  Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

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