Art, Literature, and Passions of the Skies

305 Pages·2012·2.417 MB·English

by  Rebecca M. Painter (auth.), Anna Teresa Tymieniecka (eds.)

ART, LITERATURE, AND PASSIONS OF THE SKIES
ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA
THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
VOLUME CXII
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ART, LITERATURE, AND PASSIONS
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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
The Passions of the Skies ix
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
PART I
REBECCA M. PAINTER/On the Cosmology of Literature:
Parallel Universes and Meaning Beyond Information 3
ALIRA ASHVO-MUŇOZ/Skies Passions: Reflections on La piel del cielo 27
GEORGE COMTESSE AND ION SOTEROPOULOS/The Genealogy
of Heaven in Poetic Literature 39
AYDAN TURANLI/A Critique of John Searle’s View of the Logic
of Fictional Discourse 49
LAWRENCE KIMMEL/The Recovery of Archaic Truth in Literature:
Light and Darkness in the Perception of Space
in the Human Imagination 63
PART II
RAYMOND J. WILSON III/The Disenchantment of the Sky
in Tom Stoppard’s Jumpers 79
BRUCE ROSS/Big Mind: The Nature of Consciousness as Internal
Space in Transpersonal Experience 91
MARCELLA TAROZZI GOLDSMITH/Leopardi’s Nocturnal Muse 99
MARY F. CATANZARO/Aerial Passion, the Face, and the Deleuzean
Close-Up: Samuel Beckett’s … but the clouds… 109
KIMIYO MURATA-SORACI/Wonder of Emptiness 115
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MATTI ITKONEN/On Concentric Circles of Being Revisited:
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Idea of Eternal Recurrence 127
PART III
SAUNDRA TARA WEISS/Passion’s Delirium, Passion’s
Torment – A Discussion of One Woman’s Arousal
in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening 145
VICTOR G. RIVAS LÓPEZ/Flesh, World and Devil: Towards
a Phenomenological Exposition of the Ascetic Interpretation
of Christianity in the Light of Some Tolstoy’s Short Works 153
INSOOK WEBBER/Valéry’s Materialist Conception of Consciousness
and Its Consequences 179
MARIOLA ANITA SUŁKOWSKA-JANOWSKA/Cyber-Salvation:
Body in Virtual Skies 189
GEORGE HEFFERNAN/“Erit Ergo Spiritui Subdita
Caro Spiritalis” (“The Spiritual Flesh Will Therefore
Be Subject to the Spirit”): The Heavenly Pleasures of the
Disembodied and Reembodied—An Essay on Augustine
and the Problem of Embodiment 197
RAYMOND J. WILSON III/All My Sons: Arthur Miller’s Sky Play
in Light of Søren Kierkegaard’s Either/Or 223
PART IV
TONY RACZKA/Sky That Surrounds Near to Far 235
VICTOR G. RIVAS LÓPEZ/On the Dialectical Condition of the Purity
of Poetry, Love and Madness in Tarkovsky’s Homesickness 239
BRUCE ROSS/Traveling to Other Worlds: Visitation to the Heavens
as Transpersonal Experience in Rock Art 263
EMIL ROY/Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming Through the Lens
of Amartya Sen’s The Idea of Justice 271
EUGENE TAYLOR/The Stream of Consciousness: Literary Psychology
as the First Uniquely American Phenomenology in the Works
of William James and His Swedenborgian
and Transcendentalist Milieu 277
INDEX 301
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This volume gathers selected studies from two international conferences: The 35th
Annual Conference of The International Society of Phenomenology and Literature,
The Passions of the Skies Resounding in Literature ; and The 16th Annual Conference
of the International Society of Phenomenology, Fine Arts and Aesthetics ,
The Passions of the Skies in Fine Arts Expression . Both of the conferences were
held in May 2011 at the Radcliffe Gymnasium, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA.
Our authors deserved to be thanked for their faithful efforts and precious
collaboration.
I thank Jeffrey T. Hurlburt and Louis Tymieniekci Houthakker for their usual
contribution in carrying out the preparation and editing of this volume.
A-T.T.
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THE PASSIONS OF THE SKIES
Flashes of lightning, resounding thunder, gloomy fog, brilliant sunshine … these
are the life manifestations of the skies. The concrete visceral experiences that living
under those skies stir within us are the ground for individual impulses, emotions,
sentiments that in their interaction generate their own ever-changing clouds.
While our intellect concentrates on the discovery of our cosmic position, on the
architecture of the universe, our imagination is informed by the gloomy vapors, the
glimmers of fl eeting light, and the glory of the skies.
Reconnoitering from the soil of human life and striving towards the in fi nite, the
elan of imagination gets caught up in the clouds of the skies. There in that dimness,
sensory receptivity, dispositions, emotions, passionate strivings, yearnings, eleva-
tions gather and propagate.
From the “Passions of the Skies” spring innermost intuitions that nourish litera-
ture and the arts.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
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