Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm - Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue 2006 edition

Marc Notes: Selected conference papers.; Originally published: 2006.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; By proposing the Microcosm and Macrocosm analogy for dialogue between Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology, the authors of this volume are reviving the perennial positioning of the human condition in the play of forces within and without the human being. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments.- Introduction: The Perennial and Contemporary Significance of the Great Analogy: Microcosm and Macrocosm.- Some Approaches to The Great Analogy.- The Microcosm/Macrocosm Analogy: A Tentative Encounter Between Graeco-Arabic Philosophy and Phenomenology.- The Microcosm/Macrocosm Analogy in IBN Sina and Husserl.- Hermann Lotze's Microcosm.- Connection of Microcosm with Macrocosm in Max Scheler's Philosophy: Man, Logos and Ethos.- Improvisation in The Dance of Life, The Microcosm and Macrocosm.- The Uncovering of The Microcosm-Macrocosm Setting of Life's Process: The Cosmological Expansion of Phenomenology's Notion of Evidence.- Creativity as The Principle of Differentiation.- Soul and Its Creations.- The Creative Transformation in Liu Chih's 'Philosophy of Islam'.- Man's Creativity/Viceregency in Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism.- The Sadrean Theory of The World of Divine Command.- Imagination and Its Worlds.- A Glance at The World of Image.- The World of Imagination.- The Sublime Visions of Philosophy: Fundamental Ontology and The Imaginal World.- The Circle of Life in Its Ramifications to The Divine.- The Circle of Life in Islamic Thought.- Between Microcosm and Macrocosm: Man at Work.- The Illuminative Notion of Man in Persion Thought: A Response to an Original Quest.- Metaphysics, Ontology, Cosmology.- Being and Necessity: A Phenomenological Investigation of Avicenna's Metaphysics and Cosmology.- Al-Suhrawardi's Doctrine and Phenomenology.- Martin Heidegger and Omar Khayyam on the Question of 'Thereness' (Dasein).- Appendix Programs of the Symposia.- Index of Names. Publisher Marketing: By proposing the Microcosm and Macrocosm analogy for dialogue between Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology, the authors of this volume are reviving the perennial positioning of the human condition in the play of forces within and without the human being.

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