Table of contents

Following the logos through the labyrinth of life

1-27

Acknowledgments

In praise of philosophy

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

29-31

Introduction

Anticipation in our quest for the logos in life and the life of the logos

33-36

The primeval logos

31-47

Life and non-life

49-73

Life in its specifics

75-94

Tying point one nature-life

97-130

The embodiment of the logoic life dynamics and the phases of the conversion of sense

133-151

The gathering of the dynamic logoic threads

153-159

The embodiment of the logos in the second phase: transformation of sense

161-166

Voluminosity crystalizing the vital dimension of beingness

167-172

The differentiation of the logos in constitutive and intelligible expression

173-183

Metaphysics of manifestation

187-195

Spontaneity, constructive dynamism, and ciphering in the human condition

197-205

The surging manifestation of life

209-214

The strategies of differentiation and harmony in the self-individualizing life process

215-249

Ontopoietic diversity and the unity of apperception

251-280

The esoteric logos

283-288

The great plan of life, the esoteric passion of the mind

289-314

The manifestation of the intellection in the universe in the triadic logos

The turning point

317-341

Knowledge and cognition in the self-individualizing progress of life

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

343-365

The creative rise of the human spirit

367-406

The passion for place as the thread leading out of the labyrinth of life

409-415

Spacing/scanning as the foundational function of individualization within the territory of life

417-426

The release of subliminal yearnings

427-433

The human self in the communal fabric

437-444

From Husserl's formulation of the soul-body problem to the differentiation of faculties

445-454

Telos and destiny

455-485

Introduction life's timing itself vs. the human esoteric passion for accomplishment

489-490

Chronos and kairos

Ordering on the one side and radiating on the other

491-496

Chronos and kairos seen in their ontopoietic roles

497-513

The fulguration of the logos in the "overt" strategies of the existential interaction

517-524

The dialectic junction in the logoic strategies

Moral law vs. commitment

525-568

The creative forge of the logos within the human condition

569-594

Moral and civic virtue as the bedrock of the manifest game of life, the cornerstone of dynamic social equipoise

595-611

Toward a new enlightenment

Nicoletta Ghigi

615-639

The meta-ontopoietic closure

641-664

Notes

Index of names