From sky and earth to metaphysics

From sky and earth to metaphysics

edited byAnna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Abstract

This is an exceptional volume which expands upon the World Phenomenology Institute’s recent research: the study of the beautiful intertwining of the skies and the cosmos with the human pursuits of philosophy, literature and the arts. The relationship of humans to the cosmos is examined through the exploration of phenomenology, metaphysics and the arts. The authors of this volume write on a variety of topics which all seek to open the reader’s eyes to the relationship of humans and our perception of our place in the cosmos. This volume offers a framework in which to present a rich panorama; a variety of perspectives illustrating how the perception of the interplay between human beings and the celestial realm advances in common experience and worldviews. This attempt to uncover our cosmic position is a great and worthwhile intellectual challenge. Philosophy as well as literature and the arts are nourished by this human quest for knowledge and understanding.

Details | Table of Contents

Introduction

Some remarks about ontopoiesis as new metaphysics

Francesco Totaro

pp.1-7

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5_1

On communicative being in postmodern times Daniela Verducci

pp.11-16

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5_2

The logos of life

Autopoiesis, ontopoiesis, and meta-ontopoiesis

Elisa Tona

pp.17-23

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5_3

Geometrical representation of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's phenomenology of life Martha Cecilia Suarez Jimenez

pp.25-28

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5_4

Celestial experience of life Alira Ashvo-Muñoz

pp.31-39

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5_5

On the eternal recurrence as the ground of holiness in the light of philip gröning's "The great silence" Victor Gerald Rivas López

pp.41-57

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5_6

Reflecting the sky experience in a Japanese garden Lena Hopsch

pp.61-69

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5_7

A meditation on the oddness of Christian religiosity and conception of love through Bergman's "winter light" Victor Gerald Rivas López

pp.71-84

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5_8

The moon as an artistic focus of the illumination of consciousness Bruce Ross

pp.85-92

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5_9

The sky's the limit

Art and the idea of infinity

Brian Grassom

pp.93-104

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5_10

From the infinitesimal to the infinite

Rolando Briseño's "Celestial tablescapes"

Scott Sherer

pp.105-114

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5_11

Earth and skies as conflicting complementary or supplementary dramas in the eternal war between epistemology and ethics Imafedia Okhamafe

pp.117-134

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5_12

Master and emissary

The brain's drama of dark energy

Rebecca Painter

pp.135-155

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5_13

More than a common pest

The fly as non-human companion in Emily Dickinson's "I heard a fly buzz when I died" and Samuel Beckett's "Company"

Mary Catanzaro

pp.157-162

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5_14

Flutter of a butterfly Alira Ashvo-Muñoz

pp.163-172

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5_15

Drama between earth and skies

Nietzsche, Saint-John Perse, Yves Bonnefoy

Victor Kocay

pp.175-182

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5_16

Phenomenology is a humanism

Husserl's hermeneutical-historical struggle to determine the genuine meaning of human existence in "The crisis of the European sciences and transcendental phenomenology"

George Heffernan

pp.183-216

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5_17

Milton's sky-earth alchemy and Heidegger's earth-sky continuum

A comparative analysis

Bernard Micallef(University of Malta)

pp.217-239

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5_18

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