Destiny, the Inward Quest, Temporality and Life [Hardcover]

There is no greater gift to man than to understand nothing of his fate, declares poet-philosopher Paul Valery. And yet the searching human being seeks ceaselessly to disentangle the networks of experiences, desires, inward promptings, personal ambitions, and elevated strivings which directed his/her life-course within changing circumstances in order to discover his sense of life. Literature seeks in numerous channels of insight the dominant threads of the sense of life, the inward quest, the frames of experience in reaching the inward sources of what we call destiny inspired by experience and temporality which carry it on. This unusual collection reveals the deeper generative elements which form sense of life stretching between destiny and doom. They escape attention in their metamorphic transformations of the inexorable, irreversibility of time which undergoes different interpretations in the phases examining our life. Our key to life has to be ever discovered anew.Literature seeks threads of the sense of life, the inward quest, the frames of experience in reaching the inward sources of destiny. This unusual collection reveals the deeper generative elements which form a sense of life stretching between destiny and doom.

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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

SECTION? I:? THE SENSE OF LIFE

PRESENT ETERNITY: QUESTS OF TEMPORALITY IN THE LITERARY PRODUCTION OF THE <<EXTREME CONTEMPORAIN>> IN FRANCE (THE WRITINGS OF DOMINIQUE FOURCADE AND EMMANUEL HOCQUARD)
Silvia Riva

A SENSE OF LIFE IN LANGUAGE LOVE AND LITERATURE
Lawrence Kimmel

THE GARDEN THEN AND NOW; SENSE OF LIFE  CONTEMPORARY AND IN GENESIS
Bernadette Prochaska

THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: LITERARY PSYCHOLOGY AS THE FIRST UNIQUELY AMERICAN EXPRESSION OF PHENOMENOLOGY IN WILLIAM JAMES AND HIS SWEDENBORGIAN AND TRANSCENDlSW