The human creative condition between autopoiesis and ontopoiesis in the thought of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

The appearence of the first two volumes of the book series "Analecta Husserliana", in 1971 and 1972 respectively, did not evoke particular sensation in the philosophical academy. But the outlook of the founder and editor, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, was much wider and more radical. In fact, in her mind, the recent history of phenomenology demonstrated a series of exigencies and opportunities that could not be left unaddressed, without dissipating and ending the new philosophical vitality that it had matured. The radical and original question that Tymieniecka finds herself facing, taking on the Husserlian inheritance, is wether one can proceed beyond the absoluteness of the constituent trascendental consciousness, even while conserving in it those absolutely necessary critical gains that had enabled classical phenomenological thought to unmask the disguises and astuteness of a reason, like that developed from Modernity to our days, pervaded by pressures towards theoretical self-sufficienty and heedless of the drift gradually closer to nihilism. With a renewed phenomenological inquiry Tymieniecka discovered the new position of consciousness: it stands at the center of all-that-which-is-living in force of the human creative act, that constitutes it. In the creative human condition, the autopoiesis of natural constructivism is changed in ontopoiesis. Finally, from such creative human condition, Tymieniecka's thought is able to stretch out towards metaontopoiesis.