Phenomenology and the Creative Process explores the subject of creativity from a vast range of perspectives. While the emphasis is placed on fundamental ideas taken from phenomenological philosophy and its precursors, the book also engages with related issues from the fields of psychology, physics, narrative studies, art, literature, cognitive science and neuroscience.

Acknowledgments - Preface - Introduction - Bergson and the Experience of Duration - Husserl and the Crisis of European Sciences - Tymieniecka on Phenomenology and Creativity - Heidegger on the Origins of Art - Sartre on Becoming Authentic - Merleau-Ponty's Embodied Approach to Creative Experience - Klee's Modernist Creativity - Literary Ontology - Narrative Construction - How Narratives Differ from Reality - Aristotle's and Nietzsche's Contrasting Views on Metaphor - Heidegger on Metaphor - Derrida and Ricoeur on Metaphor - Bachelard's Creative Approach to Knowing and Imagining - Derrida's Notions of Difference and Différance Deleuze's Philosophy of Creative Becoming - Gendlin's Focus on Felt Meaning - Kleinberg-Levin and the Four Stages of the Listening Self - Rosen's Notion on the Creative Challenge of Apeiron - Becoming Immortal-Like a Machine - Thinking with a Machine - Altered States - Transformed Consciousness: Issues in Science Fiction - The Creative Process and Modern Physics - The Creative Process and the Human Sciences - The Creative Process and the Social Sciences - The Creative Process and the Arts - Concluding Remarks - Bibliography - Index.