Table of contents

The theme

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

9-9

Acknowledgements

Contextualizing Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's concept of fabulation

Jadwiga Smith

3-8

The mythic journey of a changeling

Lawrence Kimmel

9-25

Aura: ontological materiality of existence and fabulation

Alira Ashvo-Muñoz

27-35

Sartre's phenomenology of history

Community, agency and comprehension

William Melaney

37-50

Historical fabulation as history by other means

Shakespeare's Caesar and Mofolo's Chaka as opposites in rubiconesque leadership

Imafedia Okhamafe

51-76

The dialectics between self, time and historical change according to Milan Kundera

Michel Dion

77-90

Lived images/imagined existences

A phenomenology of image creation in the works of Michel Tournier and photography

Franck Dalmas

91-106

Aesthetic and historical framework of Russian manor as a genre

Ljudmila Molodkina

107-112

The portrait of a real live man

Individuality, moral determination and historical myth in the light of Henry James's the American

Victor G. Rivas López

113-137

Healing personal history

Memoirs of trauma and transcendence

Rebecca Painter

139-154

Once I was

A philosophical excursion into the metaphors of the mind

Matti Itkonen

155-201

Existence and historical fabulation

The example of Tom Stoppard's travesties

Raymond J. Wilson

203-217

Metaphysical fabulation in the Berkshires

Melville's "Arrowhead" and the anachrony of thought

Christopher Schreiner

219-229

Being is believing

The underpinnings of Walter Benjamin's deconstruction of historicism

Bruce Ross

231-238

Historic fabulation and T. S. Eliot's "Little lidding"

Bernadette Prochaska

240-246

Harmonious balance as the ultimate reality in artistic and philosophical interpretation of the Taiji diagram

Tsung-I Dow

247-257

Time after time

The temporality of human existence in Faulkner's The sound and the fury

Jerre Collins

259-279

Destiny in the literature of Walker Percy, Leo Tolstoy and Eudora Welty

Bernadette Prochaska

283-292

The interior quest

Memoir, lens of personal destiny

Rebecca Painter

293-321

Collective intentions and the phenomenology of time

The theory of non-domination in communication

Cezary J. Olbromski

323-332

Interpretation of destiny

Alira Ashvo-Muñoz

333-343

Human destiny at the edge of existential categories of life

Musil and Kundera in dialogue

Michel Dion

345-357

Aspiring beyond

French romanticism, Nietzsche and Saint-John Perse

Victor Kocay

360-373

Words turn into stone Haruki Murakami's after the quake

Bruce Ross

375-382

On the modern opposition of fate, destiny, life, doom and luck in the light of Henry James's the portrait of a lady

Victor G. Rivas López

383-417

Gail Godwin

Negotiating with destiny in the odd woman and "dream children"

Raymond J. Wilson

419-429

The soul and its destiny

Readings and dialogues on science, philosophy and religion - a meeting with Vito Mancuso and Orlando Franceschelli

Roberto Verolini

431-450

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