The Philosophical Reflection of Man in Literature

Introductory Essay: Poeticanova.- Introductory Essay: Poeticanova.- I Pessimism and Optimism in the Human Condition: The Limit Situations of Existence.- The Present Tide of Pessimism in Philosophy and Letters: Agonistic literature and Cervantes’ Message.- Is the Battle with Alienation the Raison d’Être of Twentieth-Century Protagonists?.- Nihilism, Reason, and Death: Reflections on John Barth’s Floating Opera.- Beckett, Philosophy, and the Self.- Protagonist, Reader, and the Author’s Commitment.- II The Human Spirit On The Rebound.- Nature and Personal Destiny: A Turning Point in the Enterprise of Human Self-Responsibility.- Amor Fati and the Will to Power in Nietzsche.- Jorge Luis Borges—Lover of Labyrinths: A Heideggerian Critique.- Laughter in the Cathedral: Religious Affirmation and Ridicule in the Writings of D. H. Lawrence.- The Enigmatic Child in Literature.- III The Gift of Nature: Man and the Literary Work of Art.- Homecoming in Heidegger and Hebel.- Pastoral Paradoxes.- Reality and Truth in La Comédie Humaine.- Man and Nature: Does the Husserlian Analysis of Pre-Predicative Experience Shed light on the Emergence of Nature in the Work of Art?.- The Language of The Gay Science.- Santayana on Beauty.- IV Genesis of the Aesthetic Reality: Ways and Means.- Heroism and Creativity in Literature: Some Ethical and Aesthetic Aspects.- Permutation and Meaning: A Heideggerian Troisième Voie.- Criticism of Robert Magliola’s Paper.- Mythos and Logos in Plato’s Phaedo.- Sartre’s Conception of the Reader-Writer Relationship.- “Souvenir” and “Imagination” in the Works of Rousseau and Nerval.- Intuitions.- Eidetic Conception and the Analysis of Meaning in Literature.- Annex: Programs of the Conferences from Which the Papers Were Selected.- Index of Names.