Existence, Historical Fabulation, Destiny (eBook)

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (Herausgeber)

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2009
XI, 456 Seiten
Springer Netherlands (Verlag)
978-1-4020-9802-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Surging from the ontopoietic vital timing of life, human self-consciousness prompts the innermost desire to rise above its brute facts. Imaginatio creatrix inspires us to fabulate these facts into events and plots with personal significance attempting to delineate a life-course in life-stories within the ever-flowing stream - existence.

Seeking their deep motivations, causes and concatenations, we fabulate relatively stabilized networks of interconnecting meaning - history. But to understand the meaning and sense of these networks' reconfigurations call for the purpose and telos of our endless undertaking; they remain always incomplete, carried onwards with the current of life, while fluctuating with personal experience in the play of memory.

Facts and life stories, subjective desires and propensities, the circumambient world in its historical moves, creative logos and mythos, personal freedom and inward stirrings thrown in an enigmatic interplay, prompt our imperative thirst for the meaning of this course, its purpose and its fulfillment - the sense of it all. To disentangle all this animates the passions of the literary genius.

The focus of this collection is to isolate the main arteries running through the intermingled forces prompting our quest to endow life with meaning.

Papers by: Jadwiga Smith, Lawrence Kimmel, Alira Ashvo-Munoz, William D. Melaney, Imafedia Okhamafe, Michel Dion, Franck Dalmas, Ludmila Molodkina, Victor Gerald Rivas, Rebecca M. Painter, Matti Itkonen, Raymond J. Wilson III, Christopher S. Schreiner, Bruce Ross, Bernadette Prochaska, Tsung-I Dow, Jerre Collins, Cezary Jozef Olbromski, Victor Kocay, Roberto Verolini.

Inhalt

TABLE OF CONTENTS 6
THE THEME 9
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10
PART I EXISTENCE, LOGOS, AND IMAGINATION 11
CONTEXTUALIZING ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA’S CONCEPT OF FABULATION 12
SECTION I 18
THE MYTHIC JOURNEY OF A CHANGELING 19
AURA ONTOLOGICAL MATERIALITY OF EXISTENCE AND FABULATION
SARTRE’S PHENOMENOLOGY OF HISTORY: COMMUNITY, AGENCY AND COMPREHENSION 43
HISTORICAL FABULATION AS HISTORY BY OTHER MEANS: SHAKESPEARE’S CAESAR AND MOFOLO’S CHAKA AS OPPOSITES IN RUBICONESQUE LEADERSHIP 57
ABSTRACT 57
REFERENCES 82
THE DIALECTICS BETWEEN SELF, TIME AND HISTORICAL CHANGE ACCORDING TO MILAN KUNDERA 83
ABSTRACT 83
INTRODUCTION 83
CONCLUSION 94
NOTES 95
REFERENCES 96
SECTION II 97
LIVED IMAGES/IMAGINED EXISTENCES: A PHENOMENOLOGY OF IMAGE CREATION IN THE WORKS OF MICHEL TOURNIER AND PHOTOGRAPHY 98
NOTES 109
AESTHETIC AND HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK OF RUSSIAN MANOR AS A GENRE 112
THE PORTRAIT OF A REAL LIVE MAN: INDIVIDUALITY, MORAL DETERMINATION AND HISTORICAL MYTH IN THE LIGHT OF HENRY JAMES’S THE AMERICAN 118
ABSTRACT 118
I. THE TYPE AND THE BACKGROUND OF THE WORK 118
II. THE SITTER OF THE WORK 123
III. THE SUB J E C T OF THE WORK 131
IV. THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE WORK 139
NOTES 140
HEALING PERSONAL HISTORY: MEMOIRS OF TRAUMA AND TRANSCENDENCE 143
ABSTRACT 143
NOTES 157
ONCE I WAS: A PHILOSOPHICAL EXCURSION INTO THE METAPHORS OF THE MIND 159
ABSTRACT 159
I. THE JOURNEY: MAN-BOY EXISTENTIALS 160
III. THI RD JOURNEY: R EAL DURAT ION AND P E R C E P T ION OF THINGS TO COME 189
BIBLIOGRAPHY 204
SECTION III 206
EXISTENCE AND HISTORICAL FABULATION: THE EXAMPLE OF TOM STOPPARD’S TRAVESTIES 207
ABSTRACT 207
NOTES 217
REFERENCES 218
METAPHYSICAL FABULATION IN THE BERKSHIRES: MELVILLE’S ‘ARROWHEAD’ AND THE ANACHRONY OF THOUGHT 220
ABSTRACT 220
NOTES 229
BEING IS BELIEVING: THE UNDERPINNINGS OF WALTER BENJAMIN’S DECONSTRUCTION OF HISTORICISM 231
NOTES 238
SECTION IV 239
HISTORIC FABULATION AND T. S . ELIOT’S “LITTLE GIDDING” 240
NOTES 245
HARMONIOUS BALANCE AS THE ULTIMATE REALITY IN ARTISTIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE TAI J I DIAGRAM 246
ABSTRACT 246
TIME AFTER TIME: THE TEMPORALITY OF HUMAN EXISTENCE IN FAULKNER’S THE SOUND AND THE FURY 257
ABSTRACT 257
THE QUENTIN SECTION 258
THE JASON SECTION 262
THE “DILSEY” SECTION 263
THE NARRATOR OF THE “DILSEY” SECTION 270
CONCLUSION 274
NOTES 275
REFERENCES 277
PART II TOWARD DESTINY 278
SECTION I 279
DESTINY IN THE LITERATURE OF WALKER PERCY, LEO TOLSTOY AND EUDORA WELTY 280
ABSTRACT 280
JOURNEY 280
CHOSEN AND UNCHOSEN 281
IDENTITY 282
POSSIBILITY 283
ACCEPTANCE 284
NOTES 287
THE INTERIOR QUEST: MEMOIR, LENS OF PERSONAL DESTINY 288
ABSTRACT 288
MOTHER AS DRIVING FORCE 291
PARENT(S) AS TRAGIC CATALYST 295
FAILED QUEST RECONFIGURED INTO UNEXPECTED SUCCESS 306
WRITING TO CREATE DESTINY 311
NOTES 315
COLLECTIVE INTENTIONS AND THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF TIME – THE THEORY OF NON-DOMINATION IN COMMUNICATION 317
ABSTRACT 317
TERMINOLOGICAL PRECISION 318
STATUS QUESTIONIS AND THESES 318
CONCLUSIONS 323
SOURCES 326
SECTION II 327
INTERPRETATION OF DESTINY 328
ABSTRACT 328
REFERENCES 336
HUMAN DESTINY AT THE EDGE OF EXISTENTIAL CATEGORIES OF LIFE: MUSIL AND KUNDERA IN DIALOGUE 337
ABSTRACT 337
INTRODUCTION 337
I. ROBERT MUSIL ( 1 8 8 0 – 1 9 4 2 ) 7 AND THE INDEFINABLE HUMAN BEING 339
II. MILAN KUNDERA ( 1 9 2 9 – ) 16 AND THE DILEMMA OF “BEING WITH OR WITHOUT GOD” 345
CONCLUSION 348
NOTES 348
SECTION III 350
ASPIRING BEYOND: FRENCH ROMANTICISM, NIETZSCHE AND SAINT-JOHN PERSE 351
ABSTRACT 351
NOTES 363
WORDS TURN INTO STONE HARUKI MURAKAMI’S AFTER THE QUAKE 364
ABSTRACT 364
NOTES 370
ON THE MODERN OPPOSITION OF FATE, DESTINY, LIFE, DOOM AND LUCK IN THE LIGHT OF HENRY JAMES’S THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY 372
ABSTRACT 372
I. FATE 373
II. DESTINY 379
III. LIFE 388
IV. DOOM 394
V. LUCK 399
NOTES 404
GAIL GODWIN: NEGOTIATING WITH DESTINY IN THE ODD WOMAN AND “DREAM CHILDREN” 407
WORKS CITED 416
NOTES 417
THE SOUL AND ITS DESTINY: READINGS AND DIALOGUES ON SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – A MEETING WITH VITO MANCUSO AND ORLANDO FRANCESCHELLI 418
ABSTRACT 418
NOTES 435
NAME INDEX 438

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.6.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Analecta Husserliana
• Reihe/Serie: Analecta Husserliana
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 456 p.
• Verlagsort: Dordrecht
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Concept • Event • fabulation • Jean-Paul Sartre • mythos/logos • Oral discourse • Phenomenology • quest to understand • sense of life/destiny • vital life's timing
• ISBN-10: 1-4020-9802-2 / 1402098022
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-9802-4 / 9781402098024