Memory in the Ontopoiesis of Life: Book One. Memory in the Generation and Unfolding of Life

ISBN-13: 9789048123179 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 306 str.

A-T Tymieniecka

Opis

From Aristotle to the present, memory has been grasped as a trace or impression of lost reality bridging physiological experience and consciousness. Philosophers have vainly sought the nature of this bridge. The present-day physiologizing/naturalizing of consciousness is not resolving their congenital continuity, in which the very existence and practice of life is rooted. We have to change our approach (Erwin Straus). The Aristotelian congenital ties between memory and temporality, acquire crucial significance in our primogenital ontopoiesis of life (Tymieniecka). It reveals memory to be the factor that carries this coalescence and the becoming of life itself. This can be the fruit only of the generative springs of life, first phenomenology/philosophy, the ontopoietic logos of life.

In this collection we explore memory in the constitution of reality: rememorizing and interpretation, consciousness/action, facts/imagination, history/myths, self-realization/metamorphosis."

Spis treści

INAUGURAL STUDY MEMORY IN THE ONTOPOIETIC GENERATION OF LIFE, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka SECTION ONE: MEMORY ALONG LIFE’S GENESIS MEMORY AND THE MYTH OF PROMETHEUS, Halil Turan A HISTORY OF THE IDEA OF ORGANIC MEMORY, Erling Eng MEMORY AND ACTION: THE CONSCIENCE OF TIME IN PERSONAL BECOMING IN BERGSON AND BLONDEL, Clara Mandolini PHENOMENOLOGY OF LIFE ON MEMORY: REVEALING THE CREATIVE HUMAN CONDITION IN THE MUSIC ART UNIVERSE, Carmen Cozma SECTION TWO: HUMANIZING NATURE THE ANTHROPOCENTRIC VERSUS BIOCENTRIC OUTLOOKS ON NATURE, Leszek Pyra ECOLOGICAL DESIGN AND RETRIEVING THE ENVIRONMENTAL MEANING, Hande Guletekin PHILOSOPHICAL-HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF LAND RELATIONS (ON EXAMPLE OF RUSSIAN NORTH NATIONS), Tamara Emelyanova THE PHENOMENON OF THE GAZE, Eldon C. Wait SECTION THREE: CIPHERING HUMAN EXISTENCE KIERKEGAARD AND THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF REPETITION IN THE NOUVEAU ROMAN, Isil Ozcan NOTION OF MEMORY IN PIRANESI; FIREPLACE AS THE SETTING OF A DIONYSIAN PLAY, Gul Kale THE CATEGORY OF THE > IN HUSSERLIAN PHENOMENOLOGY OF TIME – POLEMIC AGAINST DERRIDEAN ANTI-PRESENTIALISM, Cezary J. Olbromski SMRITIR BYUMIKA (THE ROLE OF MEMORY): SOME MEMORY-RELATED POEMS AND SONGS OF RABINDRANATH, Sitansu Ray MEMORY AS A CHALLENGE TO HUMAN EXISTENCE – ASPECTS OF TEMPORALITY AND THE ROLE OF MEMORY IN REFERENCE TO GUITTON’S CONCEPT OF TIME, Maciej Kaluza TIME, MEMORY AND THE MUSICAL PERCEPTION, Kivilcim Yildiz Senurkmez SECTION FOUR: PLAY OF MEMORY IN SELF-IDENTITY/OTHERNESS MEMORY, PERSONAL-IDENTITY, AND MORAL RESPONSIBILIT, Ayhan Sol and Gokhan Akbay MEMORY AS A POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE MOTIVATION COMPONENT IN A PERSON’S ACTIVITY, Ljudmila Nikolayevna Poselskaya 'INTERPRETING' THE MODERN TIMES – POSSIBILITIES, LIMITATIONS, SOCIAL AND VITAL FUNCTIONS, Jan Szmyd THEACTIVITY OF THE SELF-REALIZATION WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE FABRICATED IDENTITY OF THE CONSUMER SELF AND ITS TRANSFORMATION, E. Funda Neslioglu UTILITARIAN-AESTHETIC DYNAMICS OF NATURE, Ludmila Molodkina SECTION FIVE: MEMORY IN THE CREATIVE ONTOPOIESIS OF LIFE MEMORY AND CREATIVITY IN THE CONTEXT OF ONTOPOIESIS OF BEINGNESS: A-T. TYMIENIECKA, A. BERGSON AND P. JUREVICS, Elga Freiberga ABOUT CORRELATION OF MEMORY AND REMEMBRANCE IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE SOUL, Salahaddin Khalilov THE INTERPLAY OF LIGHT AND DARK, Erkut Sezgin MEMORY – THE POSSIBILITY OF CREATION IN A LEARNING WORLD – INTERPRETATION, Aleksandra Pawliszyn

O autorze

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of "The World Phenomenology Institute".

Blurb

From Aristotle to the present, memory has been grasped as an image--a trace or impression left by a lost reality--and has been seen as bridging physiological experience and consciousness. Through the centuries philosophers have vainly sought to make concrete the nature of this bridge between sensory experience and consciousness. The present-day physiologizing/naturalizing of consciousness is no closer than previous attempts to resolving their congenital continuity. But the very existence and practice of life is rooted in this continuity, and clearly we have to change our approach to and formulation of this enigma (Erwin Straus). This will mean simultaneously hitting upon and entering into the Aristotelian congenital ties between memory and temporality, which acquire crucial significance in our primogenital ontopoiesis of life (Tymieniecka). The ontopoietic approach to the generation and unfolding of beingness, to the step by step temporalizing of life in the whirl of coalescing moments, reveals memory to be the factor that carries the great secret of this coalescence of temporality and the becoming of life itself. This selectivity and coalescence cannot be the fruit of singular functional schemata or organs, but must proceed from the generative springs of life, become the new platform of first phenomenology/philosophy, with the fluctuating thread of continuity of memory now to be sought at the innermost heart of beingness and becoming in the ontopoietic logos of life.
We propose in this collection to explore the fulgurating force of memory within the perspective of the constitution of reality: rememorizing and interpretation, consciousness and action, facts and imagination, history and myths, self-realization and metamorphosis....