Table of contents

Acknowledgments

The pessimism-optimism controversy concerning the human condition at the roots of the malaise of our times

23-29

The creative act as the point of phenomenological access to the human condition

3-7

The structure of the present work

8-17

Man-the-creator and his triple telos

18-29

The outlines of an inquiry

33-39

The emergence of the problem of creation

The poet-creator versus the philosopher

40-59

Creative reality

60-94

The factors in the new alliance between man and the world

95-112

The theoretical results of our analyses and the perspectives they open

113-118

Concluding by way of transition to the central panel of the triptych

118-118

Art and nature: creative vs. constitutive perception

121-151

The below and the above of creative inwardness

The human life-world in its essential new perspective

152-162

The creative process and the "Copernican revolution" in conceiving the unity of beingness

The creative process as the gathering center and operational thread of continuity among all modalities of being in the constructive unfolding of man’s self-interpretation-in-existence

163-173

The incipient phase of the creative process

175-194

The creative trajectory between the two phases of the life-world

195-201

The passage from the creative vision to the idea of the creative work

202-217

The operational architectonics of the surging creative function in the initial creative constructivism

218-245

The architectonic logic in the existential passage from the virtual to the real — the will

246-274

The intergenerative existential interplay in the transition phase of creativity

275-302

Conclusive insights into the question of "reality" as the outcome of our foregoing investigations

319-341

The surging of the creative orchestration within man's self-interpretation-in-existence

Passivity vs. activity

319-341

Imaginatio creatrix

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

342-378

The notion of the "human person" at the crossroads of the understanding of man within the life-world process

380-396

The moral sense of life as constitutive of the human person

397-404

The poetic sense: the aesthetic enjoyment which carries the lived fullness of conscious acts

405-422

The intelligible sense in the architectonic work of the intellect

423-436

Notes

Index of names

Analytical index of selected subjects

Table of contents of book 2