Tymieniecka's phenomenology of life reverses current priorities,
stressing the primogenital role of aesthetic enjoyment, rather than
cognition, as typifying the Human Condition. The present collection
offers clues to a crucial breakthrough in the perennial uncertainties
about the powers and prerogatives of the human mind. It proposes human
creativity as the pivot of the mind's genesis and its endowment. In the
midst of the current defiance of the transcendental certainties of
cognition, this turn to the creative act of the human being represents a
radical reversion to an approach to human powers that is predominated by
the aesthetic virtualities of the Human Condition. The collection lays
down the foundations for a new discovery of the human mind, addressing
the `plumbing' of the functional system that originates in the creative
potentiality of the Human Condition, undercutting the currently
prevalent empirical reductionism.