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This book?celebrates the investigative power of phenomenology to explore the phenomenological sense of space and time in conjunction with the phenomenology of intentionality, the invisible, the sacred, and the mystical. It examines the course of life through its ontopoietic genesis, opening the cosmic sphere to logos. The work also explores, on the one hand, the intellectual drive to locate our cosmic position in the universe and, on the other, the pull toward the infinite. It intertwines science and its grounding principles with imagination in order to make sense of the infinite.?This work i.

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements; Contents; Part I; Toward a New Enlightenment: Metaphysics as Philosophy of Life; "The Human Being and Its "Livingness"; Life and the Human; Anguish and Dehumanisation; Natural "Livingness" and Unnatural Madness; The Proposal of a New Enlightenment; Metaphysics as the Philosophy of Life; The Transcendental as the Critical and Poietic Tool of the Human Being; Moral Excellence as Cosmicization of Human Beingness in the Ontopoietic Perspective; References.
• The Inseparable Link Between "Cosmology" and the "World of Life" in the Philosophy of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka: The Originality of a New Perspective on the "Real Individual and Autonomous Being" and a Comparison with the "Phenomenological Realism" of HedwIt All Starts with Tymieniecka's "Novel Intuition"; The Connection Between "Cosmology" and "World of Life" in A.-T. Tymieniecka; A.-T. Tymieniecka and "The Third Phase of Phenomenology": Eco-Phenomenology; The "Meta-Phenomenological Realism" of Hedwig Conrad-Martius; Some Conclusions from Which to Initiate Further Research.
• The Forces of the Cosmos Before Genesis and Before Life: Some Remarks on Eugen Fink's Philosophy of the WorldFink's Meontic Phenomenology: World and Absolute Constitution; "The Forces of the Cosmos" in Fink's Post-War Ontology; Cosmology and Genesis: Some Critical Remarks; Part II; Ontopoiesis in Ben Okri's Poetic Oeuvre and A Time for New Dreams (2011); Towards an Understanding of the Symbiosis Between Poetry and Ontopoiesis in Ben Okri's Aesthetics and Poetry; An African Elegy; Mental Fight; Conclusion; References.
• Cosmic Order and Exoneration of the Beautiful: Visions of the Problem in Contemporary PhilosophyThe Law of Opposites in the Ontopoiesis of Life and in Language; References; The Forces of Darkness and the Forces of Goodness: Jerzy Nowosielski's Concept; Who Was Jerzy Nowosielski?; Part III; Anthropological Regression in the Modern World Versus Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's Metaphysics of Ontopoiesis of Life; 1; 2; 3; 4; Biologically Organized Quantum Vacuum and the Cosmic Origin of Cellular Life; Introduction; Biological Teleology; A Set of Fundamental Biological Facts and Problems.
• The Origin of Life in a New LightBiological Meaning Is Assigned to Biochemical Structures; Fundamental Role of Life in the Universe; Biology Is More Fundamental Than Physics; From Acausality to Free Will: A Natural Shift; How Is Biological Meaning Attached?; Willpower Beyond the Quantum Vacuum; Subjective Tools Capable to Act on Matter; Higher Dimensions and Subjective World; Transforming Autonomous Decisions to Biological and Physical Forces; Interaction Between Our Self and the Cosmic Life Form; References; The Cosmos of Yolanthe: Knowing Without Seeing.

Contributors:

Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa , editor

Meetings:

International Congress of Phenomenology (62nd : 2012 : Paris, France) , creator, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/cre

Languages:

English
French

Language Notes:

In English with two contributions in French; with abstracts in English.

Main Work:

Phenomenology of space and time [International Congress of Phenomenology] > Book 1: the forces of the cosmos and the ontopoietic genesis of life

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Phenomenology of space and time > Book 1, the forces of the cosmos and the ontopoietic genesis of life (Cham, [Germany] ; Heidelberg, [Germany] : Springer International Publishing, ©2014; x, 508 pages — ISBN 9783319020143)

Related Series:

Analecta Husserliana; v. 116

Subjects:

Space and time — Philosophy — Congresses

Phenomenology — Congresses

Phenomenology

Space and time — Philosophy

Space and time

Genres:

proceedings (reports)

Conference papers and proceedings

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed Apr 30, 2014).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 508 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

B3279.H94 P446 2014eb

ISBNs:

9783319020150 (electronic bk.)
3319020153 (electronic bk.)
9783319020143 [Invalid]

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Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/978-3-319-02015-0

OCLC Numbers:

878664814