Tracking the logos

Claire Ortiz Hill

pp. 91-108

in: Guillermo Rosado Haddock (ed), The other Husserl, Axiomathes 22 (1), 2012.

Abstract

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka writes of a "dynamic skeleton for future fusions of sense" rising from the seemingly disjointed situation of philosophy and details how her phenomenology of life can put flesh on it. Examined here are her efforts to: uncover the deep-lying intelligibility of life by emphasizing the role of the logos of life in connection with meaning structures developed by Husserl; undertake a critique of phenomenological reason; delineate life's path, not from cognition in isolation, but from within the fullness of human functioning in all its complexity; give Husserl's phenomenology a metaphysico-existential foundation; analyze the human creative process penetrating the very individualized meanderings of life; show how the creative logos reaches into communal/societal life and opens the way to spiritual and sacral horizons of experience.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Tymieniecka Anna-Teresa