The development of the living seed of intentionality. From E. Husserl and E. Fink to A.-T. Tymieniecka’s ontopoiesis of life.

Husserlian phenomenology maintains a surprising vitality even in its posthumous condition. J. Habermas observes, in fact, that unlike structuralism and Marxism, phenomenology has not in the least passed into a post- phase, but is still permeated with lively existentiality. In his philosophical testament, Husserl himself epistemologically engages this condition of phenomenology, seeking its foundation through the essential description of the dynamic of philosophizing and its tradition. Even though Husserl and Fink thus manifest the lived experience of iteration of finality with which the “I” of the individual philosopher, in intrinsic and living intersubjective correlation with all the other philosophers, creatively enriches natural life, they failed to devote attention to the newness this offers to the intuition. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, in contrast, grasps and draws forth the phenomenon of the ontopoiesis of life that flowers from Husserlian phenomenological intentionality and its developments in E. Fink, describing it in her phenomenology of life. In the quality of “producer of being” of human creative acts, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka identifies, as unexplored foundational terrain of phenomenology itself, the “point of contact” with the fountain/source from which the unique and originary poietic flow gushes, which leads being and thinking, nature and consciousness to existence. In this way, pushing the investigation beyond the realm of pure ideas in which Husserl and Fink remained imprisoned, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka carried out the intuitive re-sowing through which her individual phenomenological initiative was grafted into the very stream of flowing life, bringing to fruit the quality of spontaneous autoproduction of life. A new ”Archimedean point” has thus been conquered and upon it each thing can now find its proper place.