Life: Differentiation and Harmony ... Vegetal, Animal, Human - Analecta Husserliana 1998 edition

Marc Notes: English and French.; Proceedings of the International Phenomenology Congress held June 6-9, 1995, in Paris, France.; Published under the auspices of the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: The Theme: The Differentiation of Living Beings: The Multiple Rationalities' Bridging the Nature-Culture Gap. Inaugural Study: Differentiation and Unity: The Self-Individualizing life Process; A-T. Tymieniecka. Part I: Singularization - Clustering - Intervals - Spacings. Plants and the Problem of the Individual; R. Canullo. Disinterested Praise of Matter: Ideas for Phenomenological Hyletics; D. A. Conci. Hyle, Body, Life: Phenomenological Archaeology of the Sacred; A. Ales Bello. Epoche' et force; Y. Merrouch. Part II: The Translacing Continuum of Life. Enculturation of the Life-World; J. Sivak. The Human Animal': Prolegomenon to a Phenomenology of Monstrousness; Y. Raynova. La Crypto-fugie' animale; V. Houillon. Part III: Life in Human Experience. Jose Ortega y Gasset's Categorial Analysis of Human Life; J. Garcia-Gomez. L'apparaitre a soi-meme ou l'emergence phenomenologique de la Vie s'eprouvant elle-meme comme continuite resistante; R. Decriem-Franksen. Human Condition and Recreation of Life in Literature: The Example of Paul Gadenne; D. Fabiani. Part IV: Passage Without Reductionism. Science, Literature and Life: A Celebration of Non-Locality; W. S. Haney II. The Work of Art and its Interpretation; O. Rossi. A Phenomenology of Education: The Foreshortenings of the Problem; E. Plekhanov, E. Rogacheva, R. Telcharova-Kurenkova. Part V: Excess and Harmony in Literary Creation and Re-Creation of Life. Night Calls for Dawn: J. M. G. le Clezio and Michel Rio; M. Kronegger. Rio and le Clezio: A Quantitative Study; N. Campi de Castro. Trois proses du desert: P. Loti, A. Memmi, J. M. G. le Clezio; S. Meitinger. Existence, Conflict and Harmony: From M. Rio's Les jungles pensives to P. Ricoeur's Philosophical Reflection; M. A. Cecilia. Part VI: Meandering of the Spririt. The Pessimism of le Clezio; J. Onimus. Materialism, Exoticism and Mysticism: From Onitsha to Guruwari; P. Brady. a la recherche du sens perdu: le theme du passage dans la fictions de J. M. G. le Clezio; M. Spiridon. Part VII: Oneness, Harmony, the Sacred. The Experience of Oneness: The Components of the Void in J. M. G. le Clezio with Correspondences in ARchitecture (Part I); J. L. Mornes. The Experience of Oneness: Silence and Night as Components of the Void in J. M. G. le Clezio and Michel Rio, with Correspondences in Music and Film (Part II); J. T. Strommer, J. E. Strommer. The Novels of Jean-Marie Gustave le Clezio; I. Gillet. L'inconnu sur la terre: Harmony and the Sacred; C. Osowiec Ruoff. Index of Names."Publisher Marketing: In her Introduction, Tymieniecka states the core theme of the present book sharply: Is culture an excess of nature's prodigious expansiveness - an excess which might turn out to be dangerous for nature itself if it goes too far - or is culture a 'natural', congenial prolongation of nature-life? If the latter, then culture is assimilated into nature and thus would lose its claim to autonomy: its criteria would be superseded by those of nature alone. Of course, nature and culture may both still be seen as being absorbed by the inner powers of specifically human inwardness, on which view, human being, caught in its own transcendence, becomes separated radically in kind from the rest of existence and may not touch even the shadow of reality except through its own prism. Excess, therefore, or prolongation? And on what terms? The relationship between culture and nature in its technical phase demands a new elucidation. Here this is pursued by excavating the root significance of the 'multiple rationalities' of life. In contrast to Husserl, who differentiated living types according to their degree of participation in the world, the phenomenology of life disentangles living types from within the ontopoietic web of life itself. The human creative act reveals itself as the Great Divide of the Logos of Life - a divide that does not separate but harmonizes, thus dispelling both naturalistic and spiritualistic reductionism.

Contributor Bio:  Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa The Theme / Literature and TemporalityAcknowledgments Editora (TM)s Introduction: A.-T. Tymieniecka / Timing Our LifeSECTION IA. Ashvo-Munoz / A Temporal ChoraA. Omrani / Literature and the Sense of the PastR. Gray / "A Moment in Timelessness": Ben Okria (TM)s Astonishing the GodsT. E. Afejuku / A Mode of Recollection in African AutobiographyM.-Q. Ma / "In an Instant of Time": The Imagist Perception and the Phenomenology of the "Upsurge" of the Present in Exra Pounda (TM)s CantosW. S. Smith / Ascent Patters in the Early Poetry of TennysonSECTION IIJ. S. Smith / Ontology and Epistemology of Time in the Stage Play: Revisiting Roman Ingardena (TM)s The Literary Work of Art and The Cognition of the Literary Work of ArtV. Kocay / Temporal Sequence and Permanence in Neiges by Saint-John PerseI. Okhamafe / Non-Teleological Temporality in Philosophy and Literature: Camus, Achebe, Emerson, Ellison, Hurston, and NietzscheP. Mroz / The Conflicting World-Views of the Traditional and the Modernist NovelT. Despotovic / Towards the Infinite MemoryM. Dion / Between the Dialectics of Time-Memory and the Dialectics of Duration-Moment: Marcel Roust and Virginia Woolf in Dialogue SECTION IIIR. M. Painter / Temporal Rearrangement of the Moral Cosmos: Alice Munroa (TM)s FictionV. G. Rivas / On the Distinction of Tragedy and Bathos through the Perusal of Henfry Jamesa (TM) The Beast in the JungleW. Oa (TM) Brien / Telling Time: Literature, Temporality and TraumaJ. Kim-Reuter / Transcendence Unbound: Existence and Temporality in Montaignea (TM)s EssaysA. Zacharz / Translation Lost, Translation Regained - On Temporality, or onBeingL. Kimmel / Notes on Poetics of TimeJ. Handerek / Camus, Time and LiteratureSECTION IVM. Durante / The "Deepening of the Present" Throughout Representation as the Temporal Condition of a Creative ProcessV. Reed and M. Statkiewicz / "My Dear Timea (TM)s Waste": The Experience of Time and Creation in ProustD. Doyle / Indexicalities of Image Text and TimeJ. Collins / Achieving a Human Time: What We Can Learn from Faulknera (TM)s BenjyL. Livesay / Kafkaa (TM)s The Metamorphosis: Gregora (TM)s Da-Sein Paralyzed by DebtR. J. Wilson III / Time in Post-Modern Fiction: Timea (TM)s Arrow, the French Lieutenanta (TM)s Woman, and "The Alexandria Quartet"INDEXES OF NAMES