The challenge presented by the recent tendencies to "naturalize" phenomenology, on the basis of the progress in biological and neurological sciences, calls for an investigation of the traditional mind-body problem. The progress in phenomenological investigation is up to answering that challenge by placing the issues at stake upon a novel platform, that is the ontopoiesis of life.

The present collection of studies extends our investigation (see Analecta Husserliana vol. 93) by seeking the ontopoietic continuity of sense between the vitally and spiritually significant functions of life.

From the multiple approaches stretching through "The Animal, the Human, and the Divine" (Ales Bello), there come to the fore the intellective, aesthetic, moral fruits of the creative human mind: "The In-Depth Body and the Coming About of Ego" (De Preester), "Consciousness in the Perspective of Evolution" (Fiut), "Science and the Human Phenomenon" (Zonneveld), "Specifically Human Empathy" (Adri Smalling), and others. The emphasis falls upon "The Living Soul" (Shkubulyani) as the common origin of life's sense giving functions, which in their ontopoietic unfolding become informed by the simultaneously originating human creative mind, crowned in its advance by the sacral "Spiritual Emergence" (Louchakova).

Phenomenology/ontopoiesis of life offers a long sought after solution to the recently re-opened mind-body problem Exfoliating the Logos in the primogenital ontopoietic Unfolding of sense in life's functions accounts for the gradual transformations of sense: vital, psychic, communal, communicative, spiritual and sacral The focus falls on the specifically creative role of the human-mind/soul in transformation

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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".

Inhalt
Spheres of the Human Soul.- Phenomenological Hyletics: The Animal, The Human, The Divine.- Passivity and Fundamental Life's Experience in Michel Henry's Thought.- Alterity, Art, and the Language of the Soul.- Ontopoiesis and Spiritual Emergence: Bridging Tymieniecka's Phenomenology of Life and Transpersonal Psychology.- The Theory of the Passions in the Sermons of Antônio Vieira S.J. (16081697): A Phenomenological Reading.- Phenomenology: The Return to the Living Soul.- The Transpersonal Psycho-Phenomenology of Self & Soul: Meditators and Multiples speak.- Science as the Human Phenomenon.- Science and the Human Phenomenon: Markings From a Cosmic Orphan.- Consciousness in the Perspective of Evolution.- The Constitution of Biological Objects of Inquiry from the Viewpoint of Hermeneutic Phenomenology.- Biological Function Without Natural Design.- Artificial Intelligence: The Role of Phenomenology in the Organization of Interdisciplinary Researches.- Mind/Body Revisited.- Soul and Body in the Phenomenological Context.- Epistemological Questions Concerning the In-Depth Body and the Coming about of the Ego.- E. Husserl's Phenomenology on the Universal Life of Consciousness in Reflection and in Time.- Husserl's Transcendental Phenomenology and the Mind-Body Problem.- Origins of Consciousness and Conscious (Free) Intention from the Viewpoint of Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Science (Anthroposophy) in Relation to Husserl's Transcendental Reduction.- The Concept of Human Soul/Mind in the Light of the Evolutionist Theory of Knowledge: Scientific Epistemological Aspects and Metaphysical Implications.- The Role of Human Empathy in Communication.- The Meaning of Empathic Understanding in Human Inquiry.- Scientific Analysis of the Body and the Interaction of Minds.-To Communicate with a Gnat: Experience and Communication Within the Context of Life-World.- Albert Camus: The Awareness of Extraneousness.- The Human Self.- Descartes, Hume, Kant and Diderot: The Interconnectedness of the Self and Nature.- To dive back in the flux of life: William James's critique of intellectualism.- The Social Construction of the Self: Contribution of Social Phenomenology.- The Category of the (Non-)Temporal ?now? In Philosophy of the 'Late' Husserl.- Ingmar Bergman's Projected Self: From W. A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte to Vargtimmen.- Mind, Language, World.- On the Interface Between Minds and Concepts.- Mind and Ontology. Ingarden's Phenomenology and Mahayana Philosophy as Opposed Ways of Approach to Reality.- Deconstruction of the Logocenter of all Grounds Constructed by Language Habits Language-Game the Surroundings of which is Everywhere, the Center of which is Nowhere.- Symbolical forms and their role in an anthropological analysis. Ernst Cassirer's conception of the human world.- The positionalist notion of human nature in Plessner's and Gehlen's philosophy.