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.