The Origins of Life: The Primogenital Matrix of Life and Its Context

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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Springer Science & Business Media, 2000 M09 30 - 386 pages
Life appears ungraspable, yet its understanding lies at the heart of current preoccupations. In our attempt to understand life through its origins, the ambition of the present collection is to unravel the network of the origin of the various spheres of sense that carry it onwards. The primogenital matrix of generation (Tymieniecka), elaborated as the fulcrum of this collection, elucidates the main riddles of the scientific / philosophical controversies concerning the status of various spheres that seek to make sense of life.
 

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The Primogenital Generative Matrix
3
THE TREE OF LIFE IN AESTHETIC INSPIRATION
17
Leonardos Sala delle Asse and Sullivans Organic Architecture
19
Poets and Trees
35
Symbolism of the Tree in Medieval Images of the Christian Creed
45
THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN LIFE SCIENCES AND PHILOSOPHY
55
Individuation and Evolutionism
57
On the Metaphysical Foundations of Life
73
Is Phenomenology as a Science Possible? Reading Heideggers Viewpoint
177
SelfInterpretation of Time as a Rule of Individualism in Schelers Diltheys and Heideggers Concepts of Man
187
THE TRANSITIONS OF SENSE BODY ORGANISM CONSCIOUS LIFE
201
The Science of Man between Physiology and Psychology in Maine de Biran
203
An Ecological Approach to Understanding the Actions and Experiences of a Human Organism in Its Environment
225
Beitrag zur Phänomenologie der Träume in den kritischen Lebenssituationen
241
The Connection between Phenomenological Culture and the Clinical Practice of Psychiatry
253
Towards a New Vision of Reality
261

Creative Emergence and Complexity Theory
83
Contemporary Life Sciences and the Scientific Worldview
97
On Some Problems Concerning Observation of Biological Systems
107
MerleauPonty on Situations
121
PRIMAL ORIGIN INDIVIDUATION INTERPLAY
129
The Construction of the Concept The Omnividual
131
The Mathematical Horizon of the Future
157
The Individualism of TwentiethCentury Phenomenology and Existentialism
165
Processes of Functionalization and of Work in Max Scheler
287
The ConsciousnessCorporeality Problem
297
The Notion of Death from Husserl to Derrida
323
A Possible Reason for the Fatal Vision of the Famous American Surgeon Jeffery MacDonald
349
Reflexion and the Universal Structures of Consciousness
357
Program of the Gdansk Congress
367
INDEX OF NAMES
377
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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka was born in Marianowo, Poland on February 28, 1923. She studied at the University of Krakow, the Sorbonne, and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where she received a Ph.D. in philosophy. She was the founder and president the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning. She was the author of 14 books and the editor of Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research and Phenomenological Inquiry: A Review of Philosophical Ideas and Trends. She died on June 7, 2014 at the age of 91.

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