Going through post-modernity with the phenomenology of life.

It was F. Nietzsche the first one, who proposed the overcoming of nihilism with going through it, instead of opposing to it. He intended to recover human creativity and put it to work, not as arbitrary and evasive imagination, but in its graftedness into life, in such a way as to exploit life’s quality of spontaneous autoproduction, he had brought anew to the light. Husserl and Scheler assumed such a referring to life too, thus their reflection was phenomenological, that is, essentially based on living experiences. But it was only on Sixties of the XX century, that Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka discovered that there is a corporeal-conscious experience that precedes and sustains the constituting consciousness, together de-absolutizing it and placing it in an intimate relationship with the world of life ("Analecta Husserliana", I 1971, pp. 2-3). With the phenomenology of life Tymieniecka proceeds beyond the essential givenness of the constituting objectivity genesis, in search of its «inner working as the locus whence eidos and fact simultaneously spring. That amount to saying that not constitutive intentionality but the constructive advance of life which carries it may alone reveal to us the first principle of all things» ("Analecta Husserliana", XXI 1986, p. 3). In such a way, a new horizon of meaning is opened for man, that enables him to realize the vital «countermovement», by Nietzsche evoked ("Will to power", Preface), that leades him through the nihilism, toward a new existential positiveness.