Art, Literature, and Passions of the Skies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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3. Section I

   1. On the Cosmology of Literature: Parallel Universes and Meaning Beyond Information

      • Rebecca M. Painter

      Pages 3-26

   2. Skies Passions: Reflections on La piel del cielo

      • Alira Ashvo-Muňoz

      Pages 27-38

   3. The Genealogy of Heaven in Poetic Literature

      • George Comtesse, Ion Soteropoulos

      Pages 39-48

   4. A Critique of John Searle’s View of the Logic of Fictional Discourse

      • Aydan Turanli

      Pages 49-61

   5. The Recovery of Archaic Truth in Literature: Light and Darkness in the Perception of Space in the Human Imagination

      • Lawrence Kimmel

      Pages 63-76

4. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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5. Section II

   1. The Disenchantment of the Sky in Tom Stoppard’s Jumpers

      • Raymond J. Wilson III

      Pages 79-90

   2. Big Mind: The Nature of Consciousness as Internal Space in Transpersonal Experience

      • Bruce Ross

      Pages 91-98

   3. Leopardi’s Nocturnal Muse

      • Marcella Tarozzi Goldsmith

      Pages 99-107

   4. Aerial Passion, the Face, and the Deleuzean Close-Up: Samuel Beckett’s … but the clouds…

      • Mary F. Catanzaro

      Pages 109-114

   5. Wonder of Emptiness

      • Kimiyo Murata-Soraci

      Pages 115-125

   6. On Concentric Circles of Being Revisited: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Idea of Eternal Recurrence

      • Matti Itkonen

      Pages 127-142

6. Part III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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7. Section III

   1. Passion’s Delirium, Passion’s Torment – A Discussion of One Woman’s Arousal in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

      • Saundra Tara Weiss

      Pages 145-152

   2. Flesh, World and Devil: Towards a Phenomenological Exposition of the Ascetic Interpretation of Christianity in the Light of Some Tolstoy’s Short Works

      • Victor G. Rivas López

      Pages 153-178

   3. Valéry’s Materialist Conception of Consciousness and Its Consequences

      • Insook Webber

      Pages 179-187

   4. Cyber-Salvation: Body in Virtual Skies

      • Mariola Anita Sułkowska-Janowska

      Pages 189-195

   5. “Erit Ergo Spiritui Subdita Caro Spiritalis” (“The Spiritual Flesh Will Therefore Be Subject to the Spirit”): The Heavenly Pleasures of the Disembodied and Reembodied—An Essay on Augustine and the Problem of Embodiment

      • George Heffernan

      Pages 197-222

Flashes of lightning, resounding thunder, gloomy fog, brilliant sunshine…these are the life manifestations of the skies.  The concrete visceral experiences that living under those skies stir within us are the ground for individual impulses, emotions, sentiments that in their interaction generate their own ever-changing clouds.     While our intellect concentrates on the discovery of our cosmic position, on the architecture of the universe, our imagination is informed by the gloomy vapors, the glimmers of fleeting light, and the glory of the skies.     Reconnoitering from the soil of human life and striving towards the infinite, the elan of imagination gets caught up in the clouds of the skies.  There in that dimness, sensory receptivity, dispositions, emotions, passionate strivings, yearnings, elevations gather and propagate. From the “Passions of the Skies” spring innermost intuitions that nourish literature and the arts.​

• Tymieniecka
• arts and literature
• literature and phenomenology
• passion of the skies
• phenomenology
• yearbook phenomenological research

• Hanover, USA

  Anna Teresa Tymieniecka

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