Title	Passions of the Earth in Human Existence, Creativity, and Literature [electronic resource] / edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Imprint	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0930-0
Descript	VII, 327 p. online resource

Literature reveals that the hidden strings of the human ̀passional soul' are the creative source of the specifically human existence. Continuing the inquiry into the èlemental passions of the soul' and the Human Creative Soul pursued in several previous volumes of this series, the present volume focuses on the ̀passions of the earth', bringing to light some of the primogenital existential threads of the innermost bonds of the Human Condition and mother earth. In Tymieniecka's words, the studies purpose 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 -- The Theme/The Passions of the Earth -- Section I -- Walking the Elemental Earth: Phenomenological and Literary โFoot Notesโ -- ...And Unto Dust Return: The Remembered Earth -- The Splendor of the Earth - The Myth of the Fall in Walker Percyโs Second Coming -- Coleridge and the Appearing Earth: An Essay on the Other in Language -- Section II -- Radical Empiricism and Phenomenological Descriptiveness in Friar Laurenceโs โEarth Monologueโ in Romeo and Juliet -- Re-seeding the Burnt Wasteland: W. S. Merwinโs The Rain in the Trees -- The Concept of โEarthโ in Heidegger: History and the โOblivion of Beingโ -- Section III -- Phenomenology of the Amorous Life: Literature, Earth, and the Absence of the Interval -- Earth, Home, and Exile: Being in Thomas Mannโs Tonio Krรถger -- Toward the Poetic Constitution of Nature: Remarks on Josรฉ Marรญa Herediaโs Work -- Motherland: Sally Mannโs Proustian Song of the Earth -- Gadamerโs Debt to Husserl -- Section IV -- The Common Grounds of Philosophic and Tragic Wisdom: Reflections upon Nietzscheโs Birth of Tragedy -- An Incongruous Life-World: A Cultural Phenomenology of The Tailor and Ansty -- The Presence of Absence: Mirrors and Mirror Imagery in the Poetry of R. S. Thomas -- Section V -- Performing the Gendered Self in Castiglioneโs The Book of the Courtier, and the Discourse on Fashion -- The Voice of Enchantment in Massenetโs Manon -- The Splices in My Life: A Documentary or a Fictionary? -- Aesthetics and Negativity: Reading Mallarmรฉโs โVictorieusement Fui ...โ -- The Imaginative Mind: William Blakeโs Self-renewing Creative Imagination

1. Philosophy
2. Comparative literature
3. Metaphysics
4. Modern philosophy
5. Phenomenology
6. Philosophy
7. Phenomenology
8. Metaphysics
9. Modern Philosophy
10. Comparative Literature
11. Philosophy
12. general