Passions of the Earth in Human Existence, Creativity, and Literature
[Book]
edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.
Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2001
(vii, 327 pages)
Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, 71.
The Theme/The Passions of the Earth --;The Theme/The Passions of the Earth --;Section I --;Walking the Elemental Earth: Phenomenological and Literary 'Foot Notes' --;... And Unto Dust Return: The Remembered Earth --;The Splendor of the Earth --;The Myth of the Fall in Walker Percy's Second Coming --;Coleridge and the Appearing Earth: An Essay on the Other in Language --;Section II --;Radical Empiricism and Phenomenological Descriptiveness in Friar Laurence's 'Earth Monologue' in Romeo and Juliet --;Re-seeding the Burnt Wasteland: W.S. Merwin's The Rain in the Trees --;The Concept of 'Earth' in Heidegger: History and the 'Oblivion of Being' --;Section III --;Phenomenology of the Amorous Life: Literature, Earth, and the Absence of the Interval --;Earth, Home, and Exile: Being in Thomas Mann's Tonio Kröger --;Toward the Poetic Constitution of Nature: Remarks on José María Heredia's Work --;Motherland: Sally Mann's Proustian Song of the Earth --;Gadamer's Debt to Husserl --;Section IV --;The Common Grounds of Philosophic and Tragic Wisdom: Reflections upon Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy --;An Incongruous Life-World: A Cultural Phenomenology of The Tailor and Ansty --;The Presence of Absence: Mirrors and Mirror Imagery in the Poetry of R.S. Thomas --;Section V --;Performing the Gendered Self in Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and the Discourse on Fashion --;The Voice of Enchantment in Massenet's Manon --;The Splices in My Life: A Documentary or a Fictionary? --;Aesthetics and Negativity: Reading Mallarmé's 'Victorieusement Fui ... ' --;The Imaginative Mind: William Blake's Self-renewing Creative Imagination.
Literature reveals that the hidden strings of the human `passional soul' are the creative source of the specifically human existence.