Passions of the Earth in Human Existence, Creativity, and Literature

This volume seeks to unravel the essential bond between the living human being and the earth - a bond that lies at the heart of our existence. A heightened awareness of this bond should enlighten our situation and help us find our existential bearings.

The Theme:The Passions of the Earth; A-T. Tymieniecka. Section I: Walking the Elemental Earth: Phenomenological and Literary Foot Notes; D. Macauley. ... And Unto Dust Return: The Remembered Earth; L. Kimmel. The Splendor of the Earth - The Myth of the Fall in Walker Percy''s Second Coming; B. Prochaska. Coleridge and the Appearing Earth: An Essay on the Other in Language; W.D. Melaney. Section II; Radical Empiricism and Phenomenological Descriptiveness in Friar Laurence''s `Earth Monologue'' in Romeo and Juliet; P. Majkut. Re-Seeding the Burnt Wasteland: W.S. Merwin''s The Rain in the Trees; J. Dean. The Concept of `Earth'' in Heidegger History and the `Oblivion of Being''; A.C. Canan. Section III: Phenomenology of the Amorous Life: Literature, Earth, and the Absence of the Interval; H. Fawkner. Earth, Home, and Exile: Being in Thomas Mann''s Tonio Kroger; H. Rudnick. Toward the Poetic Constitution of Nature: Remarks of José Maria Heredia''s Work; J. García-Gómez. Motherland: Sally Mann''s Proustian Song of the Earth; B.S. Watson. Gadamer''s Debt to Husserl; W. Lammi. Section IV: The Common Grounds of Philosophic and Tragic Wisdom: Reflections Upon Nietzsche''s Birth of Tragedy; N.J. Fischer. An Incongruous Life-World: A Cultural Phenomenology of The Tailor and Antsy; G. Backhaus. The Presence of Absence: Mirrors and Mirror Imagery in the Poetry of R.S. Thomas; W.V. Davis. Section V: Performing the Gendered Self in Castiglione''s The Book of the Courtier and the Discourse on Fashion; E. Paulicelli. The Voice of Enchantment in Massenet''s Manon; D. Foster. The Splices in my Life: ADocumentary or a Fictionary? S. Morin. Aesthetics and Negativity: Reading Mallarme''s Victorieusement fui...; V. Kocay.The Imaginative Mind: William Blake''s Self-Renewing Creative Imagination; J. Snart.