The Elemental passion for place in the ontopoiesis of life

Continuing the pioneering work in the field laid bare by the uncovering of the Creative Condition of the human being in literature and the fine arts, the elemental passion for place leads us through the creative imagination into the labyrinths of the ontopoiesis of life itself (Tymieniecka, in her inaugural study). Essays by A-T. Tymieniecka, Mary Catanzaro, W. Smith, Jadwiga Smith, L. Dunton-Downer, Jorge Garcia Gomez, Ch. Eykman, Marlies Kronegger, Eldon N. van Liere, and Hans Rudnick make this collection a unique contribution to literary studies as well as to the metaphysics of life and of the human condition.