Existence, Historical Fabulation, Destiny

Surging from the ontopoietic vital timing of life, human self-consciousness prompts the innermost desire to rise above its brute facts. Imaginatio creatrix inspires us to fabulate these facts into events and plots with personal significance attempting to

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Existence, Historical Fabulation, Destiny by

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

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EXISTENCE, HISTORICAL FABULATION, DESTINY

A NA L E C TA H U S S E R L I A NA THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH

VO L U M E I C

Founder and Editor-in-Chief: ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning Hanover, New Hampshire

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EXISTENCE, HISTORICAL FABULATION, DESTINY

Edited by A N NA - T E R E S A T Y M I E N I E C K A The World Phenomenological Institute, Hanover, NH, U.S.A.

Published under the auspices of The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning A-T. Tymieniecka, President

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TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S

THE THEME

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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PA RT I

EXISTENCE, LOGOS, AND IMAGINATION

JADWIGA SMITH / Contextualizing Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Concept of Fabulation

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SECTION I LAWRENCE KIMMEL / The Mythic Journey of a Changeling

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ALIRA ASHVO-MUÑOZ / Aura; Ontological Materiality of Existence and Fabulation

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WILLIAM D. MELANEY / Sartre’s Phenomenology of History: Community, Agency and Comprehension

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IMAFEDIA OKHAMAFE / Historical Fabulation as History by Other Means: Shakespeare’s Caesar and Mofolo’s Chaka as Opposites in Rubiconesque Leadership

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MICHEL DION / The Dialectics Between Self, Time and Historical Change According to Milan Kundera

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SECTION II FRANCK DALMAS / Lived Images/Imagined Existences: A Phenomenology of Image Creation in the Works of Michel Tournier and Photography

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LUDMILA MOLODKINA / Aesthetic and Historical Framework of Russian Manor as a Genre

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TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S

VICTOR GERALD RIVAS / The Portrait of A Real Live Man: Individuality, Moral Determination and Historical Myth in the Light of Henry James’s The American

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REBECCA M. PAINTER / Healing Personal History: Memoirs of Trauma and Transcendence

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MATTI ITKONEN / Once I Was: A Philosophical Excursion into the Metaphors of the Mind

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SECTION III RAYMOND J. WILSON III / Existence and Historical Fabulation: The Example of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties

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CHRISTOPHER S. SCHREINER / Metaphysical Fabulation in the Berkshires: Melville’s ‘Arrowhead’ and the Anachrony of Thought

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BRUCE ROSS / Being is Believing: The Underpinni