Through mystery, literature reveals to us the Great Unknown. While we are absorbed by the matters at hand with the present enactment of our life, groping for clues to handle them, it is through literature that we discover the hidden strings underlying their networks. Hence our fascination with literature. But there is more. The creative act of the human being, its proper focus, holds the key to the Sezam of life: to the great metaphysical/ontopoietic questions which literature may disclose. First, it leads us to the sublimal grounds of transformation in the human soul, source of the specifically human significance of life (Analecta Husserliana, VolumeIII, XIX, XXIII, XXVII) Second, it leads us to the unveiling of the hidden workings of life in the twilight of knowing in a dialectic between The Visible and the Invisible, (Volume LXXV, 2002, Analecta Husserliana) down to the ontopoietic truth. (Volume LXXVI, 2002, Analecta Husserliana) This prying into the unknown which provokes the human being as he or she attempts to conquer, step by step, a space of existence, finds its culmination in the phenomenon of mystery as the subject of the present collection. Its formulation brings us to the greatest question of all: the enigmatic solidarity -in-distinctiveness of human cognition and existence.

Autorentext
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of "The World Phenomenology Institute".

Zusammenfassung
Through mystery, literature reveals to us the Great Unknown. This collection covers the subject that prying into the unknown which provokes the human being as he or she attempts to conquer, step by step, a space of existence, finds its culmination in the phenomenon of mystery.

Inhalt
The Theme: Literature's Path through the Unknown.- Orphic Listening: The Hermeneutics of Poetry and the Mystery of Transcendence.- Phenomenology of the Mysterious: Rilke's Sonnette an Orpheus.- Literature, Mystery, and Truth.- The Master of Riddles and the Mystery of Truth.- Meditation and Mediation, Secrets and Seizures: Tennyson's In Memorian as Fiction/Testimony.- The Mystery of Pain: Walt Whitman's Lilacs; and Edmund Husserl' s Meaning;.- Mystery in a Jellabah: Cultural Worlds in Borges's Historia Universal de la Infamia.- In the Name of God: Sufi'ism, a Transcendental Pantheism and the Mystery of Mysticism in Persian Poetry.- Reading J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: In Search of the Good.- The Beauty of Thought: Heidegger, Gadamer and Marmardashvili.- Solving the Mystery: A Schutzian Analysis of Sherlock Holmes.- Fictionalization of Incidents in the Autobiographies of Ezekiel Mphahlele, Wole Soyinka,Camara Laye and Peter Abrahams.- Mystery, the Genetic System, and Children's Books.- A Reflection on the Autobiographical Memory and on the Current Meaning of the Individual Life.- Paul Ricoeur's The Symbolism of Evil and the Problem of Evil in Marston's Antonio Plays.- The Relationship between Translatability and Competence.- Unlike.- Of Time and the River: Heidegger's Reading of Ho¨lderlin's River Hymns.- Kantor's Mystery of Death.- Pindar and the Ethic of Encounter.- Art and Mystery in Mikhail Bulgakov's Novel The Master and Margarita and Aleksei Losev's Study The Dialectics of Myth.- Does What Has Been Survive after All? The Touch of Yesterday.