The Origins of Life

Inaugural Study.- Origins of Life and the New Critique of Reason: The Primogenital Generative Matrix.- Overture the Tree of Life in Aesthetic Inspiration.- Leonardo’s Sala delle Asse and Sullivan’s Organic Architecture.- Creative Timber: Poets and Trees.- The Tree of the Credo: Symbolism of the Tree in Medieval Images of the Christian Creed.- Section I The Dialogue Between Life Sciences and Philosophy.- The Origin of Life: Individuation and Evolutionism.- On the Metaphysical Foundations of Life.- Creative Emergence and Complexity Theory.- Contemporary Life Sciences and the Scientific Worldview.- On Some Problems Concerning Observation of Biological Systems.- Life-Space and Life-World: Merleau-Ponty on Situations.- Section II Primal Origin, Individuation, Interplay.- The Construction of the Concept “The Omnividual”.- The Mathematical Horizon of the Future.- The Individualism of Twentieth-Century Phenomenology and Existentialism.- Is Phenomenology as a Science Possible? Reading Heidegger’s Viewpoint.- Self-Interpretation of Time as a Rule of Individuation in Scheler’s, Dilthey’s and Heidegger’s Concepts of Man.- Section III The Transitions of Sense: Body, Organism, Conscious Life.- The Body and the Self-Identification of Conscious Life: The Science of Man between Physiology and Psychology in Maine de Biran.- The Reciprocity of Human Organism and Circumstance: An Ecological Approach to Understanding the Actions and Experiences of a Human Organism in Its Environment.- Die Sprache des Traumes und der Traum der Sprache: Beitrag zur Phänomenologie der Träume in den kritischen Lebenssituationen.- The Connection between Phenomenological Culture and the Clinical Practice of Psychiatry.- The Dyadics of Complementarity: Towards a New Vision of Reality.- GivingForm to Life: Processes of Functionalization and of Work in Max Scheler.- The Consciousness-Corporeality Problem.- Death as a Limit of Phenomenology: The Notion of Death from Husserl to Derrida.- A Possible Reason for the ‘Fatal Vision’ of the Famous American Surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald.- Reflexion and the Universal Structures of Consciousness.- Appendix / Program of the Gdansk Congress.- Index of Names.