Timing and Temporality in Islamic Philosophy and Phenomenology of Life - Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2007 edition

Jacket Description/Back: From time immemorial, concern with timing of life has been crucial for the regulation of human praxis as well as for the philosophical quest to understand existence by seeking its meaning. The two used to inform each other, until modernity, when they parted. In spite of the extensive progress in manipulating change and motion, and of the abundance of metaphysical attempts to enlighten human beings about their fate, the puzzling nature of temporality and timing of reality remains controversial. The present collection of studies seeks a new answer by initiating a novel investigation informed by the ancient wisdom of the Greaco-Arabic-Islamic sources and inheritance, on the one side, and the contemporary discernment of Occidental phenomenology of life, on the other, in a common dialogical effort to unravel this great enigma of existence. Papers by: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, William C. Chittick, Reza Akbarian, Daniela Verducci, Michael F. Andrews, Seyyed Mohammed Khamenei, Nader El-Bizri, Mehdi Aminrazavi, Massimo Durante, Abdul Rahim Afaki, Maria-Chiara Teloni, A. L. Samian, Kathleen Haney, Jad Hatem, Robert J. Dobie, Michel Dion. Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Section I. The View from Nowhere: Ibn al-'Arabi on the Soul's Temporal Unfolding / William C. Chittick -- The Great Metamorphosis of the Logos of Life in Ontopoietic Timing / Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka -- Temporal Origination of the Material world and Mulla Sadra's Trans-substantial Motion / Reza Akbarian -- The Timing of the Ontopoiesis of Life / Daniela Verducci -- Section II. Edmund Husserl: The Genesis and Origin of Time / Michael F. Andrews -- Time, Temporal, and Temporality / Seyyed Mohammed Khamenei -- Some Phenomenological and Classical Corollaries on Time / Nader El-Bizri -- Section III. Mir Damad on Time and Temporality / Mehdi Aminrazavi -- Historical and Messianic Time: The Structure of Subjectivity and the Question of Judgement / Massimo Durante -- The Historicality of Linguistic Signs and the Ahistoricality of Meanings: The Role of Divine Neologisms in the Making of Islamic-Arab Tradition / Abdul Rahim Afaki -- Section IV. Time and the Formation of the Human Person: A Comparison of Edith Stein's and Martin Heidegger's Thoughts / Maria-Chiara Teloni -- Virtues in Al-Biruni's Philosophy of Science / A. L. Samian -- The Ontopoietic Timing of Life Versus the Kairic Unfolding of the Trans-Natural Destiny (A-T. Tymieniecka) / Kathleen Haney -- Pure Love in Mulla Sadra / Jad Hatem -- Section V. The Phenomenology of Wujud in the Thought of Ibn Al-'Arabi / Robert J. Dobie -- Ibn Khaldun's Concept of History and the Qur'anic Notions of Economic Justice and Temporality / Michel Dion -- Appendix -- Name Index.

Contributor Bio:  Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa The Theme / Literature and TemporalityAcknowledgments Editora (TM)s Introduction: A.-T. Tymieniecka / Timing Our LifeSECTION IA. Ashvo-Munoz / A Temporal ChoraA. Omrani / Literature and the Sense of the PastR. Gray / "A Moment in Timelessness": Ben Okria (TM)s Astonishing the GodsT. E. Afejuku / A Mode of Recollection in African AutobiographyM.-Q. Ma / "In an Instant of Time": The Imagist Perception and the Phenomenology of the "Upsurge" of the Present in Exra Pounda (TM)s CantosW. S. Smith / Ascent Patters in the Early Poetry of TennysonSECTION IIJ. S. Smith / Ontology and Epistemology of Time in the Stage Play: Revisiting Roman Ingardena (TM)s The Literary Work of Art and The Cognition of the Literary Work of ArtV. Kocay / Temporal Sequence and Permanence in Neiges by Saint-John PerseI. Okhamafe / Non-Teleological Temporality in Philosophy and Literature: Camus, Achebe, Emerson, Ellison, Hurston, and NietzscheP. Mroz / The Conflicting World-Views of the Traditional and the Modernist NovelT. Despotovic / Towards the Infinite MemoryM. Dion / Between the Dialectics of Time-Memory and the Dialectics of Duration-Moment: Marcel Roust and Virginia Woolf in Dialogue SECTION IIIR. M. Painter / Temporal Rearrangement of the Moral Cosmos: Alice Munroa (TM)s FictionV. G. Rivas / On the Distinction of Tragedy and Bathos through the Perusal of Henfry Jamesa (TM) The Beast in the JungleW. Oa (TM) Brien / Telling Time: Literature, Temporality and TraumaJ. Kim-Reuter / Transcendence Unbound: Existence and Temporality in Montaignea (TM)s EssaysA. Zacharz / Translation Lost, Translation Regained - On Temporality, or onBeingL. Kimmel / Notes on Poetics of TimeJ. Handerek / Camus, Time and LiteratureSECTION IVM. Durante / The "Deepening of the Present" Throughout Representation as the Temporal Condition of a Creative ProcessV. Reed and M. Statkiewicz / "My Dear Timea (TM)s Waste": The Experience of Time and Creation in ProustD. Doyle / Indexicalities of Image Text and TimeJ. Collins / Achieving a Human Time: What We Can Learn from Faulknera (TM)s BenjyL. Livesay / Kafkaa (TM)s The Metamorphosis: Gregora (TM)s Da-Sein Paralyzed by DebtR. J. Wilson III / Time in Post-Modern Fiction: Timea (TM)s Arrow, the French Lieutenanta (TM)s Woman, and "The Alexandria Quartet"INDEXES OF NAMES