Table of contents

Acknowledgments

The origins of life

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

3-12

Logos and ethos in the thought of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Mieczysław P. Migoǹ

15-28

In defense of a moth

The search for foundations of environmental ethics

Johann Hafner

29-41

Life, person, responsibility

Angela Ales Bello

43-53

Values within relations

Leszek Pyra

55-64

Creativity and everyday life — Ricoeur's aesthetics

Robert Sweeney

65-76

The human arts and the natural laws of bios return to consciousness

Piotr Mróz

79-88

The phenomenon of loneliness and the meta-theory of consciousness

Vladislav Borodulin, Alexej Vasiljev

89-93

Jung's concept of individuation and the problem of alientation

Maria Zowisło

95-109

"Human dignity” as "rationality"

The development of a conception

111-141

On emotion and self-determination in Max Scheler and Antoni Kępiński

Marek Pyka

143-152

The paradoxical transformation of existence

Alberto Carrillo Canán

153-165

Multiple persons in Kierkegaard's pseudonymous authorship

Velga Vevere

167-180

Human existence as a creative process

Lafuente Cecilia Lafuente

183-194

The methodologies of life, self-individualization and creativity in the educational process

Rimma Telcharova-Kurenkova, Eugene Plekhanov, Elena Rogačeva

195-205

Stimuli to invention

New technologies, new audiences, new images

Diane Scillia

207-218

Stefan Zweig and his literary biographies

Christine Berthold

219-226

The artistic event in the space of life as an effect of the interaction of instincts, feelings, images and spiritual transcendence

Joanna Ślósarska

227-241

Reflections on the everlasting and the transient or the road to the "freed field of light"

Rihards Kulis

243-256

Death and ontology

Eugeniusz Szumakowicz

257-264

Sein als "Position" und Ereignis

Takako Shikaya

265-283

Chinese gardens

The relation of man to nature in seventeenth-century French culture

Marlies Kronegger

287-322

Life: the true, the good and the beautiful

Qing P. Liu

323-338

Towards an aesthetics of nature

Merleau-Ponty's embodied ontology

Marc Van Den Bossche

339-356

Ontology and poetry

Ignacy Fiut

357-361

Heaven's angels with grinding organs

John Ruskin's idea of life

Edyta Supińska-Polit

363-368

Du mortel à l'impossible éternel

La transcendance de la mort

Jozef Sivák

369-388

The phenomenon of the future as it was constituted by Kierkegaard, Husserl and Heidegger

Christer Bjurvill

391-413

Time as viewed by Husserl and Heidegger

Aleksandra Pawliszyn

415-426

Postmodernism is existential phenomenology

Jim Unah

427-444

Postmodernism as a completion of phenomenology and hermeneutics

Przemyław Gulda

445-466

The human being in the liberal-democratic epoch

Tadeusz Buksiński

467-476

Six para-philosophical exercises in Latvian euro(onto)poiesis

Ansis Zunde

477-497

Index of names