Existence, Historical Fabulation, Destiny

443 Pages·2009·4.8 MB·English

by  Prof. A-T. Tymieniecka (auth.)

Analecta
Husserliana
The Yearbook of
Phenomenological Research
Volume IC
Existence,
Historical Fabulation,
Destiny

by
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
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EXISTENCE,HISTORICALFABULATION,DESTINY
ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA
THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
THETHEME ix
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi
PART I EXISTENCE,LOGOS,ANDIMAGINATION
JADWIGASMITH/ContextualizingAnna-TeresaTymieniecka’s
ConceptofFabulation 3
SECTION I
LAWRENCEKIMMEL/TheMythicJourneyofaChangeling 11
ALIRAASHVO-MUÑOZ/Aura;OntologicalMaterialityof
ExistenceandFabulation 27
WILLIAMD.MELANEY/Sartre’sPhenomenologyofHistory:
Community,AgencyandComprehension 37
IMAFEDIAOKHAMAFE/HistoricalFabulationasHistorybyOther
Means:Shakespeare’sCaesarandMofolo’sChakaasOpposites
inRubiconesqueLeadership 51
MICHELDION/TheDialecticsBetweenSelf,TimeandHistorical
ChangeAccordingtoMilanKundera 77
SECTION II
FRANCKDALMAS/LivedImages/ImaginedExistences:
APhenomenologyofImageCreationintheWorksofMichel
TournierandPhotography 93
LUDMILAMOLODKINA/AestheticandHistoricalFramework
ofRussianManorasaGenre 107
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VICTORGERALDRIVAS/ThePortraitofARealLiveMan:
Individuality,MoralDeterminationandHistoricalMythinthe
LightofHenryJames’sTheAmerican 113
REBECCAM.PAINTER/HealingPersonalHistory:Memoirs
ofTraumaandTranscendence 139
MATTIITKONEN/OnceIWas:APhilosophicalExcursion
intotheMetaphorsoftheMind 155
SECTION III
RAYMONDJ.WILSONIII/ExistenceandHistoricalFabulation:
TheExampleofTomStoppard’sTravesties 205
CHRISTOPHERS.SCHREINER/MetaphysicalFabulationin
theBerkshires:Melville’s‘Arrowhead’andtheAnachrony
ofThought 219
BRUCEROSS/BeingisBelieving:TheUnderpinningsofWalter
Benjamin’sDeconstructionofHistoricism 231
SECTION IV
BERNADETTEPROCHASKA/HistoricFabulationandT.S.Eliot’s
“LittleGidding” 241
TSUNG-IDOW/HarmoniousBalanceastheUltimateRealityin
ArtisticandPhilosophicalInterpretationoftheTaijiDiagram 247
JERRECOLLINS/TimeAfterTime:TheTemporalityofHuman
ExistenceinFaulkner’sTheSoundandtheFury 259
PART II TOWARDDESTINY
SECTION I
BERNADETTEPROCHASKA/DestinyintheLiteratureofWalker
Percy,LeoTolstoyandEudoraWelty 285
REBECCAM.PAINTER/TheInteriorQuest:Memoir,Lens
ofPersonalDestiny 293
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CEZARYJÓZEFOLBROMSKI/CollectiveIntentionsandthe
PhenomenologyofTime–TheTheoryofNon-Domination
inCommunication 323
SECTION II
ALIRAASHVO-MUÑOZ/InterpretationofDestiny 335
MICHELDION/HumanDestinyattheEdgeofExistential
CategoriesofLife:MusilandKunderainDialogue 345
SECTION III
VICTORKOCAY/AspiringBeyond:FrenchRomanticism,
NietzscheandSaint-JohnPerse 361
BRUCEROSS/WordsTurnintoStoneHarukiMurakami’safter
thequake 375
VICTORGERALDRIVAS/OntheModernOppositionofFate,
Destiny,Life,DoomandLuckintheLightofHenryJames’s
ThePortraitofaLady 383
RAYMONDJ.WILSONIII/GailGodwin:NegotiatingwithDestiny
intheOddWomanand“DreamChildren” 419
ROBERTOVEROLINI/TheSoulanditsDestiny:Readings
andDialoguesonScience,PhilosophyandReligion–AMeeting
withVitoMancusoandOrlandoFranceschelli 431
NAMEINDEX 451
THE THEME
Surging from the ontopoietic vital timing of life, human self-consciousness
prompts the innermost desire to rise above its brute facts. Imaginatio cre-
atrix 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-flowingstream–existence.
Seeking their deep motivations, causes and concatenations, we fabulate
relatively stabilized networks of interconnecting meaning – history. But to
understandthemeaningandsenseofthesenetworks’reconfigurationscallfor
thepurposeandtelosofourendlessundertaking;theyremainalwaysincom-
plete,carriedonwardswiththecurrentoflife,whilefluctuatingwithpersonal
experienceintheplayofmemory.
Factsandlifestories,subjectivedesiresandpropensities,thecircumambient
worldinitshistoricalmoves,creativelogosandmythos,personalfreedomand
inwardstirringsthrowninanenigmaticinterplay,promptourimperativethirst
forthemeaningofthiscourse,itspurposeanditsfulfillment–thesenseofit
all.Todisentangleallthisanimatesthepassionsoftheliterarygenius.
The focus of this collection is to isolate the main arteries running through
theintermingledforcespromptingourquesttoendowlifewithmeaning.
A-T.T.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Essays presented in this collection are gathered from two successive and
thematically interlinked conferences of the International Society of Phe-
nomenologyandLiterature(anaffiliateoftheWorldPhenomenologyInstitute)
annual conferences, number 31 (held May 16th and 17th, 2007 at the Har-
vard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts) under the title: Existence
and Historical Fabulation and Conference number 32 (held on May 5th and
6th, 2008 at the Radcliffe Gymnasium, Cambridge, Massachusetts) on the
topic: Human Destiny in Literature. Our authors are sincerely thanked for
their studious contributions and participation in the discussions which make
anessentialfeatureofourconventions.
OurfaithfulsecretaryJeffHurlburtandSpringerpublisherdeserveasusual
thanksfortheirexperteditorialhelp.
A-T.T.
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