Life Phenomenology of Life as the Starting Point of Philosophy

In her introduction to this collection, Tymieniecka presents her phenomenology of life - the leitmotif of the three-volume anniversary publication of Analecta Husserliana - as something that stands out from preceding historical attempts to investigate life in an `integral' or `scientific' way. The essays present the scientific phenomenology/philosophy of life asat uncovering the entire area of the `inner workings of Nature', exposing the way in which the `sufficient reason' and the `ground' of beingness as such crystallise out of the `onto-poietic' process. This onto-poietic process, continuing as it does in the human creative condition, also reveals the authentic genius of the works of the human spirit.