Life the Play of Life on the Stage of the World in Fine Arts, Stage-Play, and Literature

Acknowledgements. Introduction. The Theme. Inaugural Study: The Spectacle of Life Upon the Stage of the World; A.-T. Tymieniecka. Section I: Theatrum Mundi in the Theatre: Shakespeare and Calderon; H. Scolnicov. Theater of Life and Imaginative Universals in Architectural Space; M. Erkilik. Leonardo da Vinci's Ideas of World Harmony; M. Landrus. The Renaissance Painter as Dramaturge; P. Trutty-Coohill. Section II: Intimate Bodies of the Solar System; M. Bakke. Dwelling in Nature: Ethics, Form and Postmodern Architecture; D. Brubaker. Virtual Environments: Psychosocial Happenings and the Theater of Life; T. Knipp. Music on the Stage of Life; R. Khenkova, O.V. Petrova. Section III: Illusion & Essence: Husserl's Epoche, Gadamer's `Transformation into Structure', and Mamet's Theatrum Mundi; H. Pearce. An Exploration of Post-Aesthetic Analysis: W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte by Ingmar Bergman; E.J. Burns. The Feel of the Flesh: Towards an Ontology of Music; G. Backhaus. Foreman for Every Man: Pearls for Pigs; E.J. Leib. Section IV: Reconciliation & Harmony: The Philosophical Art of Tragic Drama; L. Kimmel. Art as Festival: Transcending the Self Through the Work of Art; I. Scheibler. The Greatest Opera Event of the Eighteenth Century: Costanza e Fortezza: and its Political & Religious Message to the Europe of 1723; G. Scholz. Eugene O'Neil's Diverse Use of Fog as an Existential Metaphor; L.F. Werth. Life as Self-Production in Kierkegaard's Early Work; A.C. Canan. Section V: The Idea of Chaos and the Theater of Cruelty; M. Statkiewicz. Ritual and Performance in the Theater of Romanticism: Delacroix'sSelf-Staging at the Paris Salon; K. O'Rourke. Linguistic Works of Art at the Borderlines: Ontological Exclusion in Ingarden and Gadamer; B. Meyler. Ingarden: Viewing Art as Existentially Autonomous; H. Meltzer. Ritual and the Body in Literati Painting; Jiuan Heng. The Presence of Absence: Mirrors and Imagery in the Poetry of R.S. Thomas; W.V. Davis. Index.