The Cosmos and the Creative Imagination

Part I INTRODUCTION.- Scintillations: An Introduction to this Volume; Patricia Trutty-Coohill.- Part II TYMIENIECKA STUDIES.- Creative Philosophizing: Tying Tymieniecka's "Imaginatio Creatrix" to the Moral Experience of Life; Carmen Cozma.- Creative Imagination in Music: Significance and Openness of Art; Roberto Wu.- Part III IMAGINATIO CREATRIX.- Bachelard and Merleau-Ponty: Is a Cosmic Flesh of the World Feigned or Disclosed by Imagination? Annabelle Dufourcq.- Dream and Semblance: The Play of Art and Life; Brian Grassom.- Ben Okri's The Landscapes Within (1981): The Imaginatio Creatrix; Rosemary Gray.- The Phenomenology of the Creative Imagination: Philo of Alexandria and Ibn 'Arabi; Marie Antonios Sassine.- Paul Klee's Unbound Creativity; Marcella Tarozzi Goldsmith.- The Epiphanic and Cosmic Nature of Imagination in the Art of Michael Jackson and his Influence on my Image-making; Ruach Hakodesh, Constance Pierce.- Part IV HUSSERL STUDIES.- My Living Body: The Zero Point Of Nature-Mind and the Horizon of Creative Imagination; Daniel James Hughes.- Knowledge and the Lifeworld: Phenomenological Transcendental Investigations; Witold Plotka.- Part V PHENOMENOLOGICAL SPACE AND TIME.- Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul Klee: Toward the Roots of Creative Imagination and its Cosmic Dimension; Lucia Angelino.- Eternal Noon; Alira Ashvo-Munoz.- American Walk: Imagining Between Earth and Sky; Lena Hopsch.- Eternal Recurrence and Nietzsche's Halcyon Progeny; Kimiyo Murata-Soraci.- Memory Fields, Attention, and the Resonance of Narrative; Rebecca M. Painter.- The Eternal Return: Time and Timelessness in P. D. Ouspensky's Strange Life of Ivan Osokin and Mircea Eliade's "The Secret of Dr. Honigberger"; Bruce Ross.- Part VI THE COSMIC ORIGIN OF LIFE AND ART.- Kant's Antinomies Concerning the World Problem Starting from Cassirer-Heidegger's Debate in Davos (1929); Guelfo Carbone.- Cosmology in H.D.'s Trilogy: Poetics, Logos and Trace; William D. Melaney.- The Naturalistic Axiology of Holmes Rolston III; Leszek Pyra.- Scientific Creativity in Malay Cosmology: A Phenomenological Perspective; A. L. Samian.- Part VII THE COSMIC IN THE ARTS.- Three Cosmic Poets: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rabindranath Tagore and Ezenwa-Ohaeto, and Cosmic Nature of Imagination; Tony E. Afejuku.- A Short Study of Jisei (Swan Songs): Death, Cosmos and its Transmigration, with a Postscript by a Philosopher, The Spirit of Language and the Soul of Humans: Death and Recurrence of Soul; Kiyoko Ogawa and Tadashi Ogawa.- Fusing with Nature and the Cosmos: Shamanic Elements in the Art of Akiko and Pablo Cesar Amaringo; Bruce Ross.- Hegel and The Sea of Ice; Andrew Jay Svedlow.- Cosmic Ruminations: The Creative Imagination, Imagined Experience, and the Lure of Distant Horizons; Saundra Tara Weiss.- A Phenomenological Approach to Earth Oblivion and Human Unbalance in Koyaanisqatsi; Victor G. Rivas Lopez.