From Sky and Earth to Metaphysics

This is an exceptional volume which expands upon the World Phenomenology Institute's recent research: the study of the beautiful intertwining of the skies and the cosmos with the human pursuits of philosophy, literature and the arts. The relationship of humans to the cosmos is examined through the exploration of phenomenology, metaphysics and the arts. The authors of this volume write on a variety of topics which all seek to open the reader's eyes to the relationship of humans and our perception of our place in the cosmos. This volume offers a framework in which to present a rich panorama; a variety of perspectives illustrating how the perception of the interplay between human beings and the celestial realm advances in common experience and worldviews. This attempt to uncover our cosmic position is a great and worthwhile intellectual challenge. Philosophy as well as literature and the arts are nourished by this human quest for knowledge and understanding.

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INTRODUCTION.- Some Remarks About Ontopoiesis as New Metaphysics; Francesco Totaro.- SECTION I; On Communicative Being in Postmodern Times; Daniela Verducci.- The Logos of Life: Autopoiesis, Ontopoiesis and Meta-Ontopoiesis; Elisa Tona.- Geometrical Representation of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's Phenomenology of Life; Martha Cecilia Suarez Jimenz.- SECTION II; Celestial Experience of Life; Alira Ashvo-Munoz.- On the Eternal Recurrence as the Ground of Holiness in the Light of Philip Groning's The Great Silence; Victor G. Rivas Lopez.- SECTION III.- Reflecting the Sky Experience in a Japanese Garden; Lena Hopsch.- A Meditation on the Oddness of Christian Religiosity and Conception of Love Through Bergman's Winter Light; Victor G. Rivas Lopez.- The Moon as an Artistic Focus of the Illumination of Consciousness; Bruce Ross.- The Sky's the Limit: Art and the Idea of Infinity; Brian Grassom.- From the Infinitesimal to the Infinite: Rolano Briseño Celestial Tablescapes; Scott A. Sherer.- SECTION IV; Earth and Skies as Conflicting Complementary or Supplementary Dramas in the Eternal War between Epistemology and Ethics; Imafedia Okhamafe.- Master and Emissary - The Drama of Dark Energy in Literature and Life; Rebecca Painter.- More than a Common Pest: The Fly as Non-Human Companion in Emily Dickinson's "I Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died" and Samuel Beckett's Company; Mary Catanzaro.- Flutter of a Butterfly; Alira Ashvo-Munoz.- SECTION V.- Drama Between Earth and Skies: Nietzsche, Saint-John Perse, Yves Bonnefoy; Victor Kocay.- Phenomenology is a Humanism: Husserl's Hermeneutical-Historical Struggle to Determine the Genuine Meaning of Human Existence in The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology; George Heffernan.- Milton's Sky-Earth Alchemy and Heidegger's Earth-Sky Continuum - A Comparative Analysis; Bernard Micallef.- Forces of the Cosmos in Alam Minangkabau: A Phenomenological Perspective; A.L. Samian.- Language,Meaning, and Culture: Research in the Humanities; Lawrence Kimmel.- SECTION VI.- Ringing Kimiyo Murata-Soraci On the Mystery of Sky and Earth in Camus's The Exile and the Kingdom; Victor G. Rivas Lopez.- Gene Savoy's Project X and Expanding the Mind Through the Sun and Astral Bodies; Bruce Ross.