Section I -- Color Perception: An Ongoing Convergence of Reductionism and Phenomenology -- The Logical Form of Biological Objects -- Reconciling Descriptions of Consciousness from Within and from Without -- Nature, Subjectivity and the Life-World: Elements in a Comparative Perspective on Husserlโ{128}{153}s Ideas II and the Crisis -- Self-Consciousness as Fact, Experience and Value; A Phenomenological Reinterpretation -- Section II -- Intersubjective Parameters of the Life Process -- On the Individual (Who Acts and Experiences?) -- Human Projects in the Existential Phenomenology of Sartre -- Krause on the Concept of Gemรผt and the Phenomenology of Subjectivity -- Kierkegaardโ{128}{153}s Amphibolous Conjunction of Joy and Sorrow and his Literary Theory -- Automata in the Looking-Glass: Self-consciousness, Epigenetic Development and Mental Models Theory -- Section III -- Leibnizโ{128}{153}s Performationism: Between Metaphysics and Biology -- A Temporality of Dasein (Heidegger) and a Time of the Other (Levinas) -- The Time of Life and the Time of History -- Phenomenological Approaches in the Life and Cognitive Sciences -- Edelmanโ{128}{153}s Theory of Neuronal Group Selection and Reductionism -- Section IV -- The Significance of Art for Human Life from the Viewpoint of Ontological Aesthetics -- The Aesthetic Potential of the Element of Earth -- Metaphysical Longing -- On the Threshold of Creativity: A Hermeneutic Interpretation of the Myth of Narcissus -- On Philosophy and on Expertise in Philosophy (โ{128}{156}Philosophisticsโ{128}{157})โ{128}{148}A Fantastic Narrative -- Music on the Scene of Life of the Next Century -- The Philosophical โ{128}{156}Exposureโ{128}{157} and โ{128}{156}Interpretationโ{128}{157} of a Musical Creation -- Seed and Growth: The Art of Teresa Murak -- The Ontology of the Creative Process -- Section V -- Roman Ingardenโ{128}{153}s Analysis of the Concepts of Truth in Literature -- Myth, โ{128}{156}Thingโ{128}{157} and Understanding in Gadamer -- Art and Temporality: Ricoeurโ{128}{153}s Hermeneutic Approach -- The Literary Work of Art as the Creative Power in Man: On the Margin of Roman Ingardenโ{128}{153}s Theory of Literary Discourse -- Index of Names