Table of contents

Acknowledgments

The origins of life

The primogential region of sense

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

11-14

Origins of life and the new critique of reason

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

3-16

Leonardo's Sala delle asse and Sullivan's Organic architecture

Patricia Trutty-Coohill

19-34

Creative timber

Poets and trees

Nancy Goldfarb

35-44

The tree of the credo

Suzanna Simor

45-54

The origin of life

Vijay Shankar Rai

57-71

On the metaphysical foundations of life

Bogdan Ogrodnik

73-81

Creative emergence and complexity theory

Alex Antonites

83-95

Contemporary life sciences and the scientific worldview

Spas Spassov

97-106

On some problems concerning observation of biological systems

Piotr Lenartowicz, Jolanta Kosztejn

107-119

Life-space and life-world

Rinalds Zembahs

121-128

The construction of the concept "the omnividual"

Bengt Tjellander

131-155

The mathematical horizon of the future

Grzegorz Graff, Karol Dziedziul

157-163

The individualism of twentieth-century phenomenology and existentialism

Henryk Szabała

165-175

Is phenomenology as a science possible?

Włodzimierz Pawliszyn

177-185

Self-interpretation of time as a rule of individuation in Scheler's, Dilthey's and Heidegger's concepts of man

Jaromír Brejdak

187-200

The body and the self-identification of conscious life

Carla Canullo

203-223

The reciprocity of human organism and circumstance

Kim Rogers

225-240

Die Sprache des Traumes und der Traum der Sprache

Eva Syřišťová

241-252

The connection between phenomenological culture and the clinical practice of psychiatry

Bruno Callieri

253-259

The dyadics of complementarity

Altekar

261-286

Giving form to life

Daniela Verducci

287-295

The consciousness-corporeality problem

Komarov

297-321

Death as a limit of phenomenology

Jari Kauppinen

323-348

A possible reason for the 'fatal vision' of the famous American surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald

Jerzy Grzeszczuk

349-356

Reflexion and the universal structures of consciousness

Alexander Kuzmin

357-365

Appendix

Index of names