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".

Inhalt
I The Phenomenology of Man in Interdisciplinary Communication.- Inaugural Essay.- Can Fictional Narratives Be True?.- The Phenomenology of Man and of the Human Condition in Communication with the Human Sciences.- On the Impact of the Human Sciences on Our Conception of Man and Society.- The Question of the Unity of the Human Sciences Revisited.- 'Cognition and Work'.- Scheler's Shadow on Us.- II Nature Retrieved.- Inaugural Essay.- Natural Spontaneity in the Translating Continuity of Beingness.- 1. Nature and the Expanding Self.- Transcendence and Evil.- Nature and Man in Edmund Husserl's 'Inner Historiography'.- Man and Nature: Bearings, Resources.- The Relation between Man and World: A Transcendental-Anthropological Problem.- Les antitheses de la communication et leur influence sur l'etiologie des maladies.- 2. Nature, Life, World, Culture.- Life and Culture in the Analysis of the Relationship between Man and Nature.- La realisation du projet Husserlien de monde naturel selon Jan PatoSka.- Man-in-Nature as a Phenomenological Datum.- Nature and Man.- Humanity, Nature, and Respect for Law.- The Immersion in Transcendence of Man from Nature.- 3. Nature and Mimesis.- Le retrait de la metaphore.- Nature and Human Nature in Literary Contexts.- Creative Consciousness and the Natural World in Virginia Woolf's The Waves.- Nature and Feeling: The Constitutive and the Subjective.- III Man, Nature and The Possible Worlds.- The Phenomenological Conception of the Possible Worlds and the Creative Function of Man.- Creativity and the Method of the Sciences: A Problematic Issue in Husserl's Phenomenology.- Husserl and the Logic of Questions.- The Challenge of Philosophical Anthropology.- Back to Nature Itself!.- La connaissance du monde de l'art.- AnnexDocuments Illustrating the History of The World Phenomenology Institute and of Its Three International Societies: The International Husserl and Phenomenological Research Society, The International Society for Phenomenology and Literature, The International Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, and of The Boston Forum for the Interdisciplinary Phenomenology of Man, during the first decade of their research work (19681978).- Index of Names.