The Cosmos and the Creative Imagination

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Scintillations: An Introduction to the Volume

      • Patricia Trutty-Coohill

      Pages 3-9

3. Tymieniecka Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Creative Philosophizing: Tying Tymieniecka’s “Imaginatio Creatrix” to the Moral Experience of Life

      • Carmen Cozma

      Pages 13-29

   3. Creative Imagination, Openness, and Music

      • Roberto Wu

      Pages 31-39

4. Imaginatio Creatrix

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. Bachelard and Merleau-Ponty: Is a Cosmic Flesh of the World Feigned or Disclosed by Imagination?

      • Annabelle Dufourcq

      Pages 43-58

   3. Dream and Semblance: The Play of Art and Life

      • Brian Grassom

      Pages 59-71

   4. Ben Okri’s The Landscapes Within (1981): The Unfinished Story

      • Rosemary Gray

      Pages 73-82

   5. The Phenomenology of the Creative Imagination: Philo of Alexandria and Ibn ‘Arabi

      • Marie Antonios Sassine

      Pages 83-92

   6. Paul Klee’s Unbound Creativity

      • Marcella Tarozzi Goldsmith

      Pages 93-101

   7. Ruach Hakodesh: The Epiphanic and Cosmic Nature of Imagination in the Art of Michael Jackson and His Influence on My Image-Making

      • Constance Pierce

      Pages 103-133

5. Husserl Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. My Living Body: The Zero Point of Nature-Mind and the Horizon of Creative Imagination

      • Daniel James Hughes

      Pages 137-165

   3. Knowledge and the Lifeworld: Phenomenological-Transcendental Investigations

      • Witold Płotka

      Pages 167-177

6. Phenomenological Space and Time

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul Klee: Toward the Roots of Creative Imagination and Its Cosmic Dimension

      • Lucia Angelino

      Pages 181-195

   3. Eternal Noon

      • Alira Ashvo-Muñoz

      Pages 197-207

   4. American Walk: Imagining Between Earth and Sky

      • Lena Hopsch

      Pages 209-217

The essays in this book respond to Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s recent call to explore the relationship between the evolution of the universe and the process of self-individuation in the ontopoietic unfolding of life. The essays approach the sensory manifold in a number of ways. They show that theories of modern science become a strategy for the phenomenological study of works of art, and vice versa. Works of phenomenology and of the arts examine how individual spontaneity connects with the design(s) of the logos – of the whole and of the particulars – while the design(s) rest not on some human concept, but on life itself. Life’s pliable matrices allow us to consider the expansiveness of contemporary science, and to help create a contemporary phenomenological sense of cosmos.

• Aesthetics and poetics
• Analysis of art
• Analysis of literature
• Analysis of music
• Cosmic dimensions of art
• Creative imagination
• Phenomenological interpretations of art
• Phenomenology and cosmos
• Phenomenology of life

• World Phenomenology Institute, Hanover, NH, USA

  Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

• Siena College, Loudonville, USA

  Patricia Trutty-Coohill

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (born February 28, 1923) is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of The World Phenomenology Institute, and editor (since its inception in the late 1960s) of the book series Analecta Husserliana, presently published by Springer. Patricia Trutty-Coohill’s initial work on Leonardo da Vinci focused on the direct experience of physical qualities of individual artworks and their varied receptions and interpretations. This led naturally to her studies in phenomenology of art and of the creative process. Her catalogue of Leonardo drawings (with Carlo Pedretti) was published by Giunti; her various works on Leonardo, Michelangelo, and on the contemporary arts appear in e.g. Achademia Leonardi Vinci and the Analecta Husserliana. She is Professor Emerita of Art History, Siena College, Loudonville NY.

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