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This is an exceptional volume which expands upon the World Phenomenology Institute’s recent research: the study of the beautiful intertwining of the skies and the cosmos with the human pursuits of philosophy, literature and the arts. The relationship of humans to the cosmos is examined through the exploration of phenomenology, metaphysics and the arts. The authors of this volume write on a variety of topics which all seek to open the reader’s eyes to the relationship of humans and ourperception of our place in the cosmos. This volume offers a framework in which to present a rich panorama; a variety of perspectives illustrating how the perception of the interplay between human beings and the celestial realm advances in common experience and worldviews. This attempt to uncover our cosmic position is a great and worthwhile intellectual challenge. Philosophy as well as literature and the arts are nourished by this human quest for knowledge and understanding.

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9063-5

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Introduction

Totaro Francesco

1-7

On communicative being in postmodern times

Verducci Daniela

11-16

The logos of life

Tona Elisa

17-23

Geometrical representation of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's phenomenology of life

Suarez Jimenez Martha Cecilia

25-28

Celestial experience of life

Ashvo-Muñoz Alira

31-39

On the eternal recurrence as the ground of holiness in the light of philip gröning's "The great silence"

Rivas López Victor Gerald

41-57

Reflecting the sky experience in a Japanese garden

Hopsch Lena

61-69

A meditation on the oddness of Christian religiosity and conception of love through Bergman's "winter light"

Rivas López Victor Gerald

71-84

The moon as an artistic focus of the illumination of consciousness

Ross Bruce

85-92

The sky's the limit

Grassom Brian

93-104

From the infinitesimal to the infinite

Sherer Scott

105-114

Earth and skies as conflicting complementary or supplementary dramas in the eternal war between epistemology and ethics

Okhamafe Imafedia

117-134

Master and emissary

Painter Rebecca

135-155

More than a common pest

Catanzaro Mary

157-162

Flutter of a butterfly

Ashvo-Muñoz Alira

163-172

Drama between earth and skies

Kocay Victor

175-182

Phenomenology is a humanism

Heffernan George

183-216

Milton's sky-earth alchemy and Heidegger's earth-sky continuum

Micallef Bernard

217-239

Forces of the cosmos in Alam Minangkabau

Samian A L

241-248

Language, meaning, and culture

Kimmel Lawrence

249-260

Ringing

Murata-Soraci Kimiyo

263-271

On mystery of sky and earth in Camus' "The exile and the kingdom"

Rivas López Victor Gerald

273-287

Gene Savoy's "Project x" and expanding the mind through the sun and astral bodies

Ross Bruce

289-295