{"product_id":"destiny-the-inward-quest-temporality-and-life-9789400735941","title":"Destiny, the Inward Quest, Temporality and Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eINAUGURAL ADDRESS:  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna-Teresa Tymieniecka\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSECTION  I:  THE SENSE OF LIFE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePRESENT ETERNITY: QUESTS OF TEMPORALITY IN THE LITERARY PRODUCTION OF THE \u0026lt;\u0026gt; IN FRANCE (THE WRITINGS OF DOMINIQUE FOURCADE AND EMMANUEL HOCQUARD)\u003cbr\u003eSilvia Riva\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA SENSE OF LIFE IN LANGUAGE LOVE AND LITERATURE\u003cbr\u003eLawrence Kimmel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE GARDEN THEN AND NOW; SENSE OF LIFE – CONTEMPORARY AND IN GENESIS\u003cbr\u003eBernadette Prochaska\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: LITERARY PSYCHOLOGY AS THE FIRST UNIQUELY AMERICAN EXPRESSION OF PHENOMENOLOGY IN WILLIAM JAMES AND HIS SWEDENBORGIAN AND TRANSCENDENTALIST MILIEU\u003cbr\u003eEugene Taylor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION  II:  THE INWARD QUEST\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE EVOLUTION OF JUSTICE IN THE ORESTEIA\u003cbr\u003eHeidi Silcox\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA DOUBLE PHENOMENOLOGICAL SENSE OF THE HYBRID OF FATE AND DESTINY IN COMMUNITY IN ACHEBE’S ARROW AND HEAD’S TREASURES\u003cbr\u003eImafedia Okhamafe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWHAT MASIE KNEW IN WHAT MASIE KNEW\u003cbr\u003eVictor Gerald Rivas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSTYLE MATTERS: THE LIFE-WORLDS OF ANCIENT LITERATURE\u003cbr\u003eDamian Stocking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJAMES JOYCE’S IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM AND THE FIVE CODES OF FICTION\u003cbr\u003eRaymond Wilson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION  III:  HISTORICITY AND LIFE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTEMPORALITY IN FITZGERALD’S BABYLON REVISITED\u003cbr\u003eBernadette Prochaska\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eON THE METAPHYSICAL BRUTISHNESS OF LIFE IN THE LIGHT OF ZOLA’S THE HUMAN BEAST\u003cbr\u003eVictor G. Rivas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“MAIS PERSONNE NE PARAISSAIT COMPRENDRE” (“BUT NO ONE SEEMED TO UNDERSTAND”): ATHEISM, NIHILISM, AND HERMENEUTICS IN ALBERT CAMUS’ L’ETRANGER \/ THE STRANGER\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Heffernan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHISTORICAL DISTORTIONS AND LITERARY DISCLOSURES IN D.M. THOMAS’S THE WHITE HOTEL\u003cbr\u003eLewis Livesay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMORAL SHAPES OF TIME IN HENRY JAMES\u003cbr\u003eMeili Steele\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSECTION  IV:  THE LIMITS OF ORDINARY EXPERIENCE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“THE LIMITS OF ORDINARY EXPERIENCE”: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL READING OF RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER\u003cbr\u003eR. Kenneth Kirby\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGOING BEYOND THE SELF AS THE KNOWLEDGE OF ONESELF AND THE SENSE OF THE UNIVERSE\u003cbr\u003eBronislaw Bombala\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS: EPIPHANY AND SOCIAL COMMUNION IN PAUL THEROUX’S TRAVEL WRITING\u003cbr\u003eBruce Ross\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEMERSON AFFINITIES: READING RICHARD FORD THROUGH STANLEY CAVELL\u003cbr\u003eLawrence F. Rhu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFAULKNER’S THE SOUND AND THE FURY AS ANTI-ENTROPIC NOVEL\u003cbr\u003eJerre Collins \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSECTION  V:  DESTINY, EXPERIENCE AND TIME\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW.B. YEATS, UNITY OF CULTURE, AND THE SPIRITUAL TELOS OF IRELAND\u003cbr\u003eR. Kenneth Kirby\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDOOM, DESTINY, AND GRACE: THE PRODIGAL SON IN MARILYNNE ROBINSON’S HOME\u003cbr\u003eRebecca M. Painter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMAN’S DESTINY IN TISCHNER’S PHILOSOPHY OF DRAMA\u003cbr\u003eLeszek Pyra\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE SOURCE FORM, AND GOAL OF ART IN ANTON CHEKHOV’S THE SEA GULL\u003cbr\u003eRaymond J. Wilson, III\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION  VI:  THE ARTISTIC QUEST VERSUS THE              DISCERNMENT OF TRUTH\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eA SHORT STUDY OF THE JAPANESE RENGA: THE TRANS-SUBJECTIVE CREATION OF POETIC ATMOSPHERE: \u003cbr\u003eTadashi Ogawa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eALTERED STATES: THE ARTISTIC QUEST IN THE STONE FLOWER AND LA SYLPHIDE\u003cbr\u003eBruce Ross\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTOO MUCH HAPPINESS, TOO MUCH SUFFERING… NEVER ENOUGH REALITY TRANSFORMED BY NARRATIVE\u003cbr\u003eRebecca Painter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MERLEAU-PONTY AND LITERARY ARTS\u003cbr\u003ePiotr Mroz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eREVISITING STEINBECK’S LITTORAL PHENOMENOLOGY: HUSSERLIAN ELEMENTS IN THE LOG FROM THE ‘SEA OF CORTEZ’\u003cbr\u003eGretchen Gusich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE ROLE OF ART IN CAMUS AND SARTRE\u003cbr\u003eJoanna Handerek\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSTAGING HEIDEGGER: CORPOREAL PHILOSOPHY, COGNITIVE SCIENCE, AND THE THEATER\u003cbr\u003eThomas Blake\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINDEX OF NAMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePROGRAMS FROM THE 2009 AND 2010 PHENOMENOLOGY AND LITERATURE CONFERENCES\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53212596371799,"sku":"9789400735941","price":116.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/destiny-the-inward-quest-temporality-and-life-9789400735941","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}