Section I. - Color Perception: An Ongoing Convergence of Reductionism and Phenomenology. - The Logical Form of Biological Objects. - Reconciling Descriptions of Consciousness from Within and from Without. - Nature Subjectivity and the Life-World: Elements in a Comparative Perspective on Husserl's Ideas II and the Crisis. - Self-Consciousness as Fact Experience and Value; A Phenomenological Reinterpretation. - Section II. - Intersubjective Parameters of the Life Process. - On the Individual (Who Acts and Experiences?). - Human Projects in the Existential Phenomenology of Sartre. - Krause on the Concept of Gemüt and the Phenomenology of Subjectivity. - Kierkegaard's Amphibolous Conjunction of Joy and Sorrow and his Literary Theory. - Automata in the Looking-Glass: Self-consciousness Epigenetic Development and Mental Models Theory. - Section III. - Leibniz's Performationism: Between Metaphysics and Biology. - A Temporality of Dasein (Heidegger) and a Time of the Other (Levinas). - The Time of Life and the Time of History. - Phenomenological Approaches in the Life and Cognitive Sciences. - Edelman's Theory of Neuronal Group Selection and Reductionism. - Section IV. - The Significance of Art for Human Life from the Viewpoint of Ontological Aesthetics. - The Aesthetic Potential of the Element of Earth. - Metaphysical Longing. - On the Threshold of Creativity: A Hermeneutic Interpretation of the Myth of Narcissus. - On Philosophy and on Expertise in Philosophy (Philosophistics)A Fantastic Narrative. - Music on the Scene of Life of the Next Century. - The Philosophical Exposure and Interpretation of a Musical Creation. - Seed and Growth: The Art of Teresa Murak. - The Ontology of the Creative Process. - Section V. - Roman Ingarden's Analysis of the Concepts of Truth inLiterature. - Myth Thing and Understanding in Gadamer. - Art and Temporality: Ricoeur's Hermeneutic Approach. - The Literary Work of Art as the Creative Power in Man: On the Margin of Roman Ingarden's Theory of Literary Discourse. - Index of Names. Language: English