Logos and Life: Creative Experience and the Critique of Reason

Foreground.- I / The Creative Act as the Point of Phenomenological Access to the Human Condition.- II / The Structure of the Present Work.- III / Man-The-Creator and His Triple Telos.- The First Panel of the Triptych the Eros and Logos of Life within the Creative Inwardness.- The Outlines of an Inquiry.- I / The Emergence of the Problem of Creation: The Poet-Creator Versus the Philosopher.- II / Creative Reality.- III / The Factors in the New Alliance Between Man and the World.- The Theoretical Results of Our Analyses and the Perspectives they Open the Creative Context.- Concluding by Way of Transition to the Central Panel of the Triptych.- The Central Panel of the Triptych (Panel Two) the Origin of Sense The Creative Orchestration of the Modalities of Beingness within the Human Condition.- One the Creative Context as Circumscribed by the Creative Process - its Roots "Below" and its Tentacles "Above" the Life-World: Uncovering the Primogenital Status of the Great Philosophical Issues.- I / Art and Nature: Creative Versus Constitutive Perception.- II / The Below and the Above of Creative Inwardness: The Human Life-World in its Essential New Perspective.- III / The Creative Process And The "Copernican Revolution" In Conceiving The Unity Of Beingness: The Creative Process As The Gathered Center and Operational Thread of Continuity among All Modalities of Being in the Constructive Unfolding of Man's Self-Interpretation-in-Existence.- Two the Trajectory of the Creative Ciphering of the Original Life Significance: The Resources and Architectonics of the Creative Process.- I / The Incipient Phase of the Creative Process.- II / The Creative Trajectory Between the Two Phases of the Life-World.- III / The Passage from the Creative Vision to the Idea of theCreative Work.- IV / Operational Architectonics of the Surging Creative Function in the Initial Creative Constructivism.- V / The Architectonic Logic in the Existential Passage from the Virtual to the Real - The Will.- VI /

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of "The World Phenomenology Institute".