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The Philosophical Reflection of Man in Literature

Selected Papers from Several Conferences Held by the International Society for Phenomenology and Literature in Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
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Part of the Analecta Husserliana book series (ANHU, volume 12)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introductory Essay: Poeticanova

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introductory Essay: Poetica Nova
      Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
      Pages 1-93

  3. Pessimism and Optimism in the Human Condition: The Limit Situations of Existence

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 95-95
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    2. The Present Tide of Pessimism in Philosophy and Letters: Agonistic Literature and Cervantes’ Message
      A. M. Vázquez-Bigi
      Pages 97-124
    3. Is the Battle with Alienation the Raison D’être of Twentieth-Century Protagonists?
      Dan Vaillancourt
      Pages 125-136
    4. Nihilism, Reason, and Death: Reflections on John Barth’s floating Opera
      Stephen Nathanson
      Pages 137-151
    5. Beckett, Philosophy, and the Self
      Hugh J. Silverman
      Pages 153-160
    6. Protagonist, Reader, and the Author’s Commitment
      Gila Ramras-Rauch
      Pages 161-169

  4. The Human Spirit on the Rebound

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 171-171
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    2. Nature and Personal Destiny: A Turning Point in the Enterprise of Human Self-Responsibility
      David L. Norton
      Pages 173-184
    3. Amor Fati and the Will to Power in Nietzsche
      Veda Cobb-Stevens
      Pages 185-202
    4. Jorge Luis Borges—Lover of Labyrinths: A Heideggerian Critique
      Stephen L. Weber
      Pages 203-211
    5. Laughter in the Cathedral: Religious Affirmation and Ridicule in the Writings of D. H. Lawrence
      James B. Sipple
      Pages 213-244
    6. The Enigmatic Child in Literature
      Reinhard Kuhn
      Pages 245-264

  5. The Gift of Nature: Man and the Literary Work of Art

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 265-265
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    2. Homecoming in Heidegger and Hebel
      Jeffner Allen
      Pages 267-275
    3. Pastoral Paradoxes
      Margaret Collins Weitz
      Pages 277-289
    4. Reality and Truth in La Comédie Humaine
      Jean Bruneau
      Pages 291-299
    5. Man and Nature: Does the Husserlian Analysis of Pre-Predicative Experience Shed Light on the Emergence of Nature in the Work of Art?
      Maria Da Penha Petit, Villela De Carvalho
      Pages 301-311
    6. The Language of the Gay Science
      Alphonso Lingis
      Pages 313-319
    7. Santayana on Beauty
      Henny Wenkart
      Pages 321-326

  6. Genesis of the Aesthetic Reality: Ways and Means

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 327-327
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    2. Heroism and Creativity in Literature: Some Ethical and Aesthetic Aspects
      Beverly Ann Schlack
      Pages 329-351
    3. Permutation and Meaning: A Heideggerian Troisième Voie
      Robert Magliola
      Pages 353-383
    4. Criticism of Robert Magliola’s Paper
      Eugene F. Kaelin
      Pages 385-389
    5. Mythos and Logos in Plato’s Phaedo
      Veda Cobb-Stevens
      Pages 391-405
    6. Sartre’s Conception of the Reader-Writer Relationship
      Ramona Cormier
      Pages 407-413
    7. “Souvenir” and “Imagination” in the Works of Rousseau and Nerval
      Christoph Eykman
      Pages 415-428
    8. Intuitions
      Richard T. Webster
      Pages 429-441
    9. Eidetic Conception and the Analysis of Meaning in Literature
      Christoph Eykman
      Pages 443-453
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 455-485
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About this book

Keywords

Edmund Husserl Jean-Paul Sartre Martin Heidegger concept phenomenology

Editors and affiliations

  • Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
    • 1
  1. 1.The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning BelmontUSA

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7720-4
  • Copyright Information Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1982
  • Publisher Name Springer, Dordrecht
  • eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
  • Print ISBN 978-94-009-7722-8
  • Online ISBN 978-94-009-7720-4
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