Virtues and passions in literature : excellence, courage, engagements, wisdom, fulfilment

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Virtues and passions in literature : excellence, courage, engagements, wisdom, fulfilment

edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

(Analecta Husserliana : the yearbook of phenomenological research / edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, v. 96)

Springer, c2008

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"Published under the auspices of the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning"

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

The Human Condition prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. This book explains how the emergence of Human Condition lifts natural endowment of the individual to the level of excellence. It shows how natural forces and promptings of life transmute through creative Human Condition subliminal passions of the soul into innumerable streaks of spiritual significance.

Table of Contents

  • THEMATIC STUDY: LITERATURE AND THE PASSION OF VIRTUE
  • L. Kimmel. Part I. HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY VIRTUES AS REFLECTED IN CHINESE LITERATURE
  • T-I Dow. REVISITING THE TRADITIONAL VIRTUES OF THE HERO: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF WILFRED OWEN'S DISABLED SOLDIER
  • B. Micallef. BEAUTY, TASTE AND ENLIGHTENMENT IN HUME'S AESTHETIC THOUGH
  • V.G. Rivas. Part II. VIRTUES OF THE HEART: FEODOR DOSTOEVSKY AND THE ETHIC OF LOVE
  • E. Cherkasova. THE WILLING SUBJECT AND THE NON-WILLING IN THE TAO TE CHING AND NIETZSCHE'S HYPERBOREAN: TAOIST AND DECONSTRUCTIVE CHALLENGES TO THE IDEA OF VIRTUE
  • B. Ross. SPIRITUAL VIRTUE IN MARILYNNE ROBINSON'S GILEAD
  • R.M. Painter. Part III. INHERENT AND INTENTIONAL INQUIRIES ON VIRTUES
  • A. Ashvo-Munoz. STRIVING AND ACCEPTING LIMITS AS COMPETING META-VIRTUES: GOETHE'S FAUST AND IBSEN'S THE WILD DUCK
  • R.J. Wilson III. HAPPINESS, DIVISION, AND ILLUSIONS OF THE SELF IN PLATO'S SYMPOSIUM
  • P. Weigel. THE VIRTUE OF RESPONSIBILITY: FEMININITY, TEMPORALITY, AND SPACE IN MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM'S THE HOURS
  • A. Ljung-Baruth. Part IV. ENLIGHTENMENT, HUMANIZATION AND BEAUTY IN THE LIGHT OF SCHILLER'S LETTERS ON THE AESTHETIC EDUCATION OF MAN
  • V.G. Rivas. BEYOND ADAPTATION: STOICISM, TRANSCENDENCE, AND MOVIEGOING IN WALKER PERCY AND STANLEY CAVELL
  • L.F. Rhu. BETWEEN THE IRONIC AND THE IRENIC: HAPPINESS, CONTINGENCY AND THE POETICS OF RECURRENCE
  • J. Baldacchino. PHENOMENOLOGICAL TEMPORALITY AND PROUSTIAN NOSTALGIA
  • R. Kaushik. Part V. ART AND AWARENESS
  • J. Jandovitz. THE IMAGE OF HISTORY IN THOUGHT
  • E. Escher. NARRATIVE, CONVENTION, AND REALITY 2
  • M. Holt. POLITICAL SYMBOLISM IN THE SAINT ANTOINE GATE, 1585-1672
  • W. Roberts. MUSIC THEORYAND PHENOMENOLOGY OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCE, A CASE STUDY: FIVE NOTES IN JOEL DURAND'S UN FEU DISTINCT
  • M. Beken

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