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
Tractatus Brevis.- First Principles of the Metaphysics of Life Charting the Human Condition: Man's Creative Act and the Origin of Rationalities.- I The Network and Tentacles of Individual Existence.- Man as the Junction of Yin-Yang Relationships and Cosmic Heart: A Phenomeno- logical Interpretation of Some Chinese Ancient Texts about Human Nature.- Mastery in Eternal Recurrence.- The Development of the Sciences in Relation to Human Life: Existence Irreducible to Scientific Vision.- The Problem of the Autonomy of Human Existence in Heidegger's Later Philosophy.- II Nature, Spirit, Soul.- De la nature à l'esprit par l'expérience humaine.- The Philosophy of Kant and a Theory of Subjectivity.- Human Nature and Mind in Martin Heidegger.- The Nature-Being Principle: A Consideration from Chu Hsi.- III The Spatio-Temporal Arteries of Individual Existence.- Du corps à la chair: Maurice Merleau-Ponty.- Toward a Genetic Phenomenology of Space Through a Critical Approach to Piaget.- Temps et finitude chez Husserl.- Man and History.- IV Some Further Perspectives Upon the Human Condition.- From Phenomenology to an Axio- Centric Ontology of the Human Condition.- The Human Condition: A Perspectival View.- Thinking in a World of Appearances: Hannah Arendt between Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger.- The Hero as the Spiritual Legacy of His Culture: Wen T'ien-Hsiang and His Admirers.- The Piety of Thinking: Heidegger's Pathway to Comparative Philosophy.- The Modern Age as a Transitional Period: An Essay on Metaphenomenology.- Closure.- The Interdisciplinary Phenomenology of Man and of the Human Condition: A Dialogue between Chinese and Occidental Philosophy in Meeting the Challenge of Our Times.- Index of Names.