Table of Contents
Inaugural Essay.- The Origins of Life: The Existential Senses of Sharing-in-Life — Vital, Societal, Creative — a Radically Novel Platform.- Section I Transitions of Sense: From the Vital Towards the Existential/Societal Sharing-in-Life.- Logos and Ethos in the Thought of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka: The Aspect of“Beginning”.- In Defense of a Moth. The Search for Foundations of Environmental Ethics.- Life, Person, Responsibility.- Values Within Relations.- Creativity and Everyday Life — Ricoeur’s Aesthetics.- Section II The Surging of The Intentional platform of Life.- The Human Arts and the Natural Laws of Bios: Return to Consciousness.- The Phenomenon of Loneliness and the Meta-Theory of Consciousness.- Jung’s Concept of Individuation and the Problem of Alienation.- “Human Dignity” as“Rationality” — The Development of a Conception.- On Emotion and Self-Determination in Max Scheler and Antoni K?pi?ski.- The Paradoxical Transformation of Existence: On Kierkegaard’s Concept of Individuation.- Multiple Persons in Kierkegaard’s Pseudonymous Authorship.- Section III The Emergence of The Creative Sphere of Sharing-in-Life.- Human Existence as a Creative Process: A Commentary on Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Anthropological Reflection.- The Methodologies of Life, Self-Individualization and Creativity in the Educational Process.- Stimuli to Invention: New Technologies, New Audiences, New Images.- Stefan Zweig and His Literary Biographies.- The Artistic Event in the Space of Life as an Effect of the Interaction of Instincts, Feelings, Images and Spiritual Transcendence.- Reflections on the Everlasting and the Transient or the Road to the“Freed Field of Light”.- Death and Ontology.- Sein als “Position” und Ereignis: Kants These über das Sein undHeidegger.- Section IV The Spirit of Creativity Soaring towards the Sense of Beauty and Transcendence.- au]Chinese Gardens: The Relation of Man to Nature in Seventeenth-Century French Culture.- Life: The True, the Good and the Beautiful: A Comparative Study of Greek and Pre-Qin Philosophies.- Towards an Aesthetics of Nature: Merleau-Ponty’s Embodied Ontology.- Ontology and Poetry: The Principles of Being of Creation.- Heaven’s Angels with Grinding Organs: John Ruskin’s Idea of Life.- Du Mortel a l’Impossible Éternel: La Transcendance de la Mort.- Section V Time, World, and Hermeneutics.- The Phenomenon of the Future as It was Constituted by Kierkegaard, Husserl and Heidegger.- Time as Viewed by Husserl and Heidegger.- Postmodernism is Existential Phenomenology.- Postmodernism as a Completion of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics.- The Human Being in the Liberal-Democratic Epoch.- Six Para-Philosophical Exercises in Latvian Euro(onto)poiesis.- Index of Names.
