Poetica nova

Introductory essay

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

1-93

The present tide of pessimism in philosophy and letters

Agonistic literature and Cervantes' message

Angel M. Vázquez-Bigi

97-124

Is the battle with alienation the raison d'être of twentieth-century protagonists?

Dan Vaillancourt

125-136

Nihilism, reason, and death

Reflections on John Barth's floating opera

Stephen Nathanson

137-151

Beckett, philosophy, and the self

Hugh J. Silverman

153-160

Protagonist, reader, and the author's commitment

Gila Ramras-Rauch

161-169

Nature and personal destiny

A turning point in the enterprise of human self-responsibility

David Norton

173-184

Amor fati and the will to power in Nietzsche

Veda Cobb-Stevens

185-202

Jorge Luis Borges—lover of labyrinths

A Heideggerian critique

Stephen L. Weber

203-211

Laughter in the cathedral

Religious affirmation and ridicule in the writings of D. H. Lawrence

James Sipple

213-244

The enigmatic child in literature

Reinhard Kuhn

245-264

Homecoming in Heidegger and Hebel

Jeffner Allen

267-275

Pastoral paradoxes

Margaret Collins Weitz

277-289

Reality and truth in la comédie humaine

Jean Bruneau

291-299

Man and nature

Does the Husserlian analysis of pre-predicative experience shed light on the emergence of nature in the work of art?

Maria Villela-Petit

301-311

The language of the gay science

Alphonso Lingis

313-319

Santayana on beauty

Henny Wenkart

321-326

Heroism and creativity in literature

Some ethical and aesthetic aspects

Beverly A. Schlack

329-351

Permutation and meaning

A Heideggerian troisième voie

Robert Magliola

353-383

Criticism of Robert Magliola's paper

Eugene F. Kaelin

385-389

Mythos and logos in Plato's phaedo

Veda Cobb-Stevens

391-405

Sartre's conception of the reader-writer relationship

Ramona Cormier

407-413

"Souvenir" and "imagination" in the works of Rousseau and Nerval

Christoph Eykman

415-428

Intuitions

Richard Webster

429-441

Eidetic conception and the analysis of meaning in literature

Christoph Eykman

443-453