Life Energies, Forces and the Shaping of Life: Vital, Existential: Book I - Analecta Husserliana 2002 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.;bk. 1. Vital, existential. Table of Contents: Acknowledgements. The Theme. Inaugural lecture. The life-force or the shaping-of-life? A-T. Tymieniecka. Section I. Force and dynamism in Aristotle and Heidegger: Becoming what you are... to be; C. Hanley. Von der Sinnkrise und der Wichtigkeit der Bedeutung fur das menschliche Leben; H. Tatematsu. Les passions de l'ame et l'Ontopoiesie de la vie; M. Kronegger. The notion of 'humanity' in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's anthropological thought; M. P. Migon. Georg Simmel between Goethe and Kant on 'Life' and 'Force'; P. Giacomoni. Section II. Paleoanthropology from a phenomenological point of view. Some remarks about the genetic structures of the human life; B. de Villers. The function of autotopoi in the modification of a subject's activity; J. Slosarska. The irreversibility of natural processes and the meaning of the second principle of thermodynamics; A. Marchesin. The natural-scientific and phenomenological approaches to animals; S. Lijmbach. On the dynamical unity of instrument and substance; D. Rothbart. Section III. Life, power and measure in Nietzsche's work; F. Totaro. Three models of human dynamic towards integrity: Eliade, Jung, Wilber; M. Zowislo. The dispute between Shestov and Husserl as a reflection of approaches to axiology; Z. Majewska. Mass-media communication as a possible creative source of new shapes of life; M. Sehdev. Section IV. Does time move? Dogen and the art of understanding the moment; D. Holbrook. Reductive and nonreductive theories of the self: the phenomenology of performance; W. S. Haney II. Evolving life: constant turnover from inconsistencies to intensities; K. Matsuno. A phenomenology of proper timing in ancient China; J. D. Sellman. African theory of forces and the extended family relations: a deconstruction; J. I. Unah. Section V. Giving form to life according to Max Scheler. Part I: Processes of functionalization and of work. Part II: Human perception as cooperation of vital and spiritual forces; D. Verducci. Worries of a human person at the turn of century in the light of the history of medicine; B. Maroszynska-Jezowska. Virtutes et potentiae: the medical-biological tradition in the formation of the philosophical anthropology of the thirteenth century; R. Martorelli-Vico. Philosophical thanatology as a foundation of contemporary medical ars moriendi; A. Alichniewicz. Nature as the source of life; L. Pyra. Section VI. Zur Bedeutung des 'Blickes' und des 'Antlitzes' bei Georg Simmel und Emmanuel Levinas; A. Model. Human dignity in weakness &endash; Gabriel Marcel's conception of human dignity; J. J. Venter. From the 'Ego' to the 'World' for a community ethic; I. A. Bianchi. Appendix."Publisher Marketing: The nature of life consists in a constructive becoming. This selection of studies proceeds to envisage life in the Aristotelian perspective in which energia, forces, and dynamisms of life at work are at the fore. Startling questions emerge: what distinction could be drawn between the prompting forces of life and its formation? Or, is this distinction a result of our transcendental faculties?

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