Existence, Historical Fabulation, Destiny

This book isolates and examines the main arteries running through the intermingled forces prompting the quest to endow life with meaning.

Existence, Logos, and Imagination.- Contextualizing Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka''s Concept of Fabulation.- The Mythic Journey of a Changeling.- Aura; Ontological Materiality of Existence and Fabulation.- Sartre''s Phenomenology of History: Community, Agency and Comprehension.- Historical Fabulation as History by Other Means: Shakespeare''s Caesar and Mofolo''s Chaka as Opposites in Rubiconesque Leadership.- The Dialectics Between Self, Time and Historical Change According to Milan Kundera.- Lived Images/Imagined Existences: A Phenomenology of Image Creation in the Works of Michel Tournier and Photography.- Aesthetic And Historical Framework of Russian Manor as a Genre.- The Portrait of A Real Live Man: Individuality, Moral Determination and Historical Myth in the Light of Henry James''s The American.- Healing Personal History: Memoirs of Trauma and Transcendence.- Once I Was: A Philosophical Excursion into the Metaphors of the Mind.- Existence and Historical Fabulation: The Example of Tom Stoppard''s Travesties.- Metaphysical Fabulation in the Berkshires: Melville''s ''Arrowhead'' and the Anachrony of Thought.- Being is Believing: The Underpinnings of Walter Benjamin''s Deconstruction of Historicism.- Historic Fabulation and T. S . Eliot''s "Little Lidding".- Harmonious Balance as the Ultimate Reality in Artistic and Philosophical Interpretation of the Taiji Diagram.- Time After Time: The Temporality of Human Existence in Faulkner''s The Sound and the Fury.- Toward Destiny.- Destiny in the Literature of Walker Percy, Leo Tolstoy and Eudora Welty.- The Interior Quest: Memoir, Lens of Personal Destiny.- Collective Intentions and the Phenomenology of Time - The Theory of Non-Domination in Communication.- Interpretation Of Destiny.- Human Destiny at the Edge of Existential Categories of Life: Musil and Kundera in Dialogue.- Aspiring Beyond:French Romanticism, Nietzsche And Saint-John Perse.- Words Turn into Stone Haruki Murakami''s After The Quake.- On the Modern Opposition of Fate, Destiny, Life, Doom and Luck in the Light of Henry James''s The Portrait of a Lady.- Gail Godwin: Negotiating With Destiny in The Odd Woman and "Dream Children".- The Soul and its Destiny: Readings and Dialogues on Science, Philosophy and Religion - A Meeting with Vito Mancuso and Orlando Franceschelli.