RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Arneson, PatYR 2012 T1 A creative turning: Communicative participation in Tymieniecka’s logos of life JF Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, VO 4 IS 2 SP 153 OP 167 DO https://doi.org/10.1386/ejpc.4.2.153_1 PB Intellect, SN 1757-1960, AB Abstract This article establishes the relevance of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s work for understanding human communication. Tymieniecka’s cosmology, available in her four-volume series Logos and Life (1988–2000) and supplemented by prolific writings across several decades, articulates a ‘third phenomenology’ – a phenomenology of life. Her work fulfils Edmund Husserl’s original phenomenology of consciousness and Roman Ingarden’s second phenomenology of realism/idealism. Tymieniecka’s ontopoietic cosmology, which strenuously resists linear form, is interwoven with the possibilities of human communication. Her works explain life as the expansion of logos: recursively the vital sphere initiates logos, forcing the existential sphere, concurrently prompting the social sphere of the human condition. The human station reveals meaning-bestowing functions: the creative-imaginative origin urges the aesthetic, moral, and intellective senses. Self-individualizing development concurrently desires communicative participation in life. The lived-body and sign/word allow one to re-establish ties to communal life after self-individualization. At the human ‘crown’, life recedes through an individual quest for spiritual development, inspired by a desire for transcendence., UL https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ejpc.4.2.153_1