It is rare that we feel ourselves to be participating in history. Yet, as Bertrand Russell observed, philosophy develops in response to the challenges of socio-cultural problems and situations. The present-day philosophical endeavor is prompted not by one or two, but by a conundrum of problems and controversies in which the forces carrying life are set against each other. The struggles in which contemporary mankind is fiercely engaged are not confined, as in the past, to economic, territorial, or religious rivalries, nor to the quest for power, but extend to the primary conditions of human existence. They under­ mine man's primogenital confidence in life and shatter the intimacy of his home on earth. Philosophical reflection today cannot fail to feel the pressure of the current situation within which it unfolds. Since this situation now involves the ultimate conditions of human existence, its demands have at last given to philosophy the impetus and direction needed for conceiving that the first and last of its concerns should be life itself.

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Foreground.- I / The Creative Act as the Point of Phenomenological Access to the Human Condition.- 1. The Radical Overturn of the Phenomenological Perspective.- 2. Discovery and Appropriate Assessment of the Archimedean Point from which the Unity of Beingness Is to Be Exfoliated.- II / The Structure of the Present Work.- 1. Plurivocal Correspondences of Coherence: Juxtaposition of Design Patterns.- 2. Evocative Symmetries/Asymmetries, Anticipatory Presumptions, etc. of Graphic Correspondences.- 3. The Style of Exposition: Each Type of Evidence Meant to Appear in Its Primeval Operative Surging and Enactment.- 4. The New Critique of Reason.- 5. The Philosophical "Argument" in Outline.- III / Man-The-Creator and His Triple Telos.- 1. The Regulative Telos of the Real Autonomous Individual: Telos and Entelechy.- 2. Man-The-Creator and His Specific Telos.- The First Panel of the Triptych the Eros and Logos of Life within the Creative Inwardness.- The Outlines of an Inquiry.- 1. Is Creative Activity a Distinct Phenomenon?.- 2. The Itinerary of the Poet.- 3. Creation versus Constitution.- I / The Emergence of the Problem of Creation: The Poet-Creator Versus the Philosopher.- 1. Human Life as Conflict.- 2. The Conquest of the Mind and the Neutralization of Natural Life. Solidarity between Philosopher-Phenomen-ologist and Poet.- 3. Separation of the Tasks: Description of the Conscious Mechanisms of Phenomenology, in Opposition to the Grasp of the Operative Rules of Consciousness in the Creative Effort.- 4. The Reconquest of the Body, of Fecundity, and of the World in the Creative Effort: Creational Phenomenology.- 5. The Problem of Creation Arises in the form of a Mundane Context.- II / Creative Reality.- 1. The Creative Debate between the Mind and the Body Opens.- 2. The Underground Cable and the Factors of Creative Transformability.- 3. The Creative Process as an Active System of Transformation: Sensibility, New Source of Meaning at the Origin of the World.- 4. The New Form of Life Being Reborn in Creative Reality.- 5. "Generative Nature" Transformed into Erotic Emotion - The Mute Maternity of Thought.- III / The Factors in the New Alliance Between Man and the World.- 1. Experience and Knowledge, Antennae of the Mind.- 2. The Intermingling of Consciousness and Body in the Creative Function, an Inexhaustible Source of Possible Worlds.- 3. The Mode of the Relationship between the Body and the Mind: The Archimedean Point of the World.- 4. Expanded Consciousness: Virtual Inventor.- 5. The Common Contexture of the Mind and the Body.- The Theoretical Results of Our Analyses and the Perspectives they Open the Creative Context.- (a) The frame of reference, p. 113..- (b) The creative process suspended between two phases of the constituted world, p. 114..- (c) Creation, a rupture with the constituted world: Toward the emergence of a new contexture of the human world, p. 116..- (d) Creative inwardness and the new functional orchestration, p. 117..- Concluding by Way of Transition to the Central Panel of the Triptych.- The Central Panel of the Triptych (Panel Two) the Origin of Sense The Creative Orchestration of the Modalities of Beingness within the Human Condition.- One the Creative Context as Circumscribed by the Creative Process - its Roots "Below" and its Tentacles "Above" the Life-World: Uncovering the Primogenital Status of the Great Philosophical Issues.- I / Art and Nature: Creative Versus Constitutive Perception.- Section 1. The Creative Stirrings.- Section 2. Creative Perception and Originality.- (a) The analogy between constitutive and creative perception, p. 125..- (b) The different regulative principles and frameworks of reference of the two types of perception: theme versus essence (eidos), p. 125..- Section 3. The Creative Quest for "Authentic Reality" and the Fallacy of the "Return to the Source".- (a) The quest for the "authentic sense" of reality in the creative endeavor, p. 128..- (b) The "return to the source": Creative destructuring and re-construction; the fallacy of so-called "de-construction", p. 131.- Section 4. The Transcendental Illusion of the Return to the Source.- Section 5. the Quest for Illusory "True Reality" and the Dilemmas of Individual and Collective Effort.- Section 6. The Dilemma at the Heart of Creation: Collective Heritage versus Individual Evidence.- Section 7. Creative Destructuring in the Metaphysical Pursuit of the Poet: A Period of Preparation for the Creative Breakthrough.- (a) Life lurking in the media attributed to the illusory "authentic reality", p. 142..- (b) Creative conditions seen through philosophy, p. 146..- Section 8. The Radical Beginning: The Limit Concepts and the Mind in a New Pattern.- II / The Below and the Above of Creative Inwardness: The Human Life-World in its Essential New Perspective.- Section 1. Creation as the Transition between Two Successive Phases of the Same Life-World Caught in the Constitutive process.- (a) The precarious nature of the creative process, p. 152..- (b) The creative trajectory suspended between two poles: Creative agent and creative object, p. 154..- (c) The creative agent as a part of the constituted world, p. 156..- (d) The created work enters the constituted world as its integral part, p. 158..- Section 2. Man as the Creative Agent Transgresses the "Conditioning" of the Constituted World.- (a) The constituted world becomes problematic, p. 160..- III / The Creative Process And The "Copernican Revolution" In Conceiving The Unity Of Beingness: The Creative Process As The Gathered Center and Operational Thread of Continuity among All Modalities of Being in the Constructive Unfolding of Man's Self-Interpretation-in-Existence.- Section 1. The Distinction between the Creative Process and the Constructive Delineation of Man's Self-Interpretation-in-Existence.- Section 2. How the Creative Process Generates Examplary Works of Invention which Function as the Prototypes for Life's Interpretative Progress.- Section 3. The Infinitely Expansive Coherence of Life's Pluri-Modal Beingness Revealed by the Creative Process Leading to a Radical Overturn of the Classic Metaphysico-Ontological Formulations of Issues.- Two the Trajectory of the Creative Ciphering of the Original Life Significance: The Resources and Architectonics of the Creative Process.- I / The Incipient Phase of the Creative Process.- Section 1. The Incipient Phase of the Creative Process and Its Dynamic Resources: The Initial Spontaneity.- Section 2. The Two Moments of the Incipient Phase of the Creative Process.- (a) The creative stirring, p. 177..- (b) The creative vision, p. 179..- Section 3. Creative Volition.- Section 4. Creative Intuition as the Antenna between the Creative Vision and Its Crystallization in the "Idea of the Creative Work".- Section 5. The Work as the Creative Product.- (a) The intrinsic cognition of the creative work confined to represented ob…