Download or read book Temporality in Life As Seen Through Literature written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-09 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a wealth of papers in its pages, this book examines that fundamental of human philosophy, the relationship between human beings and time. Having the human subject – the creator – at its center, literature is essentially engaged in temporality whether that of the mind or of the world of life through the creative process of writing, stage directing, or the reader’s and viewer’s reception. This text examines, among others, the work of Proust and Kafka.