Life - Phenomenology of Life as the Starting Point of Philosophy
Subtitle: 25th Anniversary Publication Book III (Analecta Husserliana)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 31, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780792341260
Subjects: Phenomenology & Existentialism; Topics in philosophy; Philosophy; Speculative Philosophy; Metaphysics; Movements - Phenomenology; Philosophy / Metaphysics; Philosophy / Phenomenology; Philosophy-Movements - Phenomenology; Life; Congresses; Phenomenology
Description: In her introduction to this collection, Tymieniecka presents her phenomenology of life - the leitmotif of the three-volume anniversary publication of Analecta Husserliana - as something that stands out from preceding historical attempts to investigate life in an 'integral' or 'scientific' way.

After an incubation lasting throughout the 2000 years of Occidental philosophy, this scientific phenomenology/philosophy of life at last uncovers the entire area of the 'inner workings of Nature', exposing the way in which the 'sufficient reason' and the 'ground' of beingness as such crystallise out of the 'onto poietic' process. This onto-poietic process, continuing as it does in the human creative condition, also reveals the authentic genius of the works of the human spirit.

This new and original philosophy, free of fallacious simplifications, speculations and reductionism, opens up a basic starting point for all philosophy. Life, 'the theme of our times', at last receives a profound philosophical treatment.