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Inaugural Study.- The Golden Measure: The Self-individualization of Life Bringing to Fruition the Ideal for a New Epoch.- One The Ideal: Ascension in Troubled Times.- Occult Ascension in Troubled Times: The Ideals of Mankind in Rudolf Steiner and Béla Hamvas.- Jean Anouilh's Thirst for the Absolute and His Formulation of the Ideal.- Francis Hutcheson: Political Ideals.- Human Kind in Literature: The Ideals of Fiction - The Fiction of Ideals.- The Paradox of the Ideals of Humankind: Paul Ricoeur's Approach.- Two On the Way.- Narrative Identity: Situating a Postmodern Ideal.- Transcendence in Poetry, Music and Film: La Corona (John Donne, Ernst Krenek, Joan & Jean Strommer, 1609/1941/1987) Iconic Implications of Circular Structures.- Husserl, the Differend and Kafka's The Trial.- Roland Barthes and Critical "Romanesque".- Le Clézio's L'Inconnu sur la terre: Man, Nature, Creativity and Cosmology.- Three The Search for Harmony.- Thinking about Harmony as Category and Value in the Aesthetics of Hegel and Krause.- Shesher Kabita: Tagorean Ideals Towards the Man-Woman Relationship.- L. Binswanger sur Hofmannsthal: L'Esprit et la souffrance.- The Human Face of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.- Dasein Naturalized.- Four Philosophy Focusing on the Human Being.- Materialistic and Poetic Humanism in G. Leopardi.- Subjectivism and Phenomenology.- Husserl, Mann, and the Modernist Crisis of Culture.- "A Rock of Defence for Human Nature": Philosophical and Literary Approaches to the Causes of Violence.- Freedom and Philosophy.- Five The European Message.- Le Message Européen: Pierre Frieden (1892-1959).- The Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy Approached from a Phenomenological Angle.- European Scholars on Indian Music.- "Be Nice to One Another!": Morality, theEmbattled Ideal in Eighteenth Century German Literature.- Index of Names.