Phenomenology and Existentialism in the Twentieth Century: Book II. Fruition - Cross-Pollination - Dissemination

ISBN-13: 9789048129782 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 456 str.

A-T Tymieniecka

Opis

Our world s cultural circles are permeated by the philosophical influences of existentialism and phenomenology. Two contemporary quests to elucidate rationality took their inspirations from Kierkegaard s existentialism plumbing the subterranean source of subjective experience and Husserl s phenomenology focusing on the constitutive aspect of rationality. Yet, both contrary directions mingled readily in common vindication of full reality. In the inquisitive minds (Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Stein, Merleau-Ponty, et al.), a fruitful cross-pollination of insights, ideas, approaches, fused in one powerful wave disseminating throughout all domains of thought. Existentialist rejection of ratiocination and speculation together with Husserl s shift to the genesis of rapproches philosophy and literature (Wahl, Marcel, Berdyaev, Wojtyla, Tischner, etc.), while the foundational underpinnings of language (Wittgenstein, Derrida, etc.) opened the "hidden" behind the "veils" (Sezgin and Dominguez-Rey)."

Spis treści

Te theme, a-t. tymieniecka: section i.- was merleau-ponty a phenomenologist? some reflections upon the identity of phenomenology, k. rokstad sartre’s postcartesian ontology: on negation and existence, w.d. melaney 'brute being' and hyletic phenomenology: the philosophical legacy of merleau-ponty’s the visible and the invisible, a.a. bello physis and flesh, r. kaushik embodiment and existence merleau-ponty and the limits of naturalism, p. reynaert.- section ii the method of karol wojtyla: a way between phenomenology, personalism and metaphysics, j.m. burgos the role of experience in karol wojtyla’s ethical thought, c.b. gonzález tishcner’s philosophy of drama, l. pyra camus and tischner: in search of absolute love, m. bielawka edith stein and jean-paul sartre: a possible comparison, a-m. pezzella.- section iii the dimension of existence disclosed by unraveling the intentional structure of imagining, e. sezgin henomenological and poetic grounds of linguistics, a.d. reyperception, textual theory and metaphorical language, m. sehdev la phénoménologie et le probleme de l’imagination, b.m. d’ippolito.- section iv merleau-ponty and the eternal return to the life-world. beyond existentialism and phenomenology, a. zeifa is-identity as living identity, a. zukowski, i. ricconi de-situatedness: the subject and its exhaustion of space in gilles deleuze, m-q. ma he post-structural effect on the life-world: re-thinking critical subjectivity and ethics through existential performance and the constitutive power of performativity, b.c. kanouse.- tion v ean wahl, the precursor, a. kremer-marietti albert camus: phenomenology and postmodern thought, i. fiut jan kott and the aesthetics of reception: aspects of an existential theatre, m. chen the existential aspects of the museum at the turn of the century, a. malecka ection vi playing with places: the aesthetic experience of place in a play situation, l. untmythopoetics of stone, k. lehari towards aphenomenology of the instrument-voix, a.r. vitale hors d’oeuvre revisited, m. itkonenconclusion the human telos beyond the instrumental closure. the contribution of phenomenology and existentialism, f. totaro.

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

Our world’s cultural circles are permeated by the philosophical influences of phenomenology and existentialism and the illuminations of movements following on them. These two quests to elucidate rationality – ever renewed in the progress of thought – took their distinct inspirations from Kierkegaard’s existentialism plumbing the subterranean source of subjective experience and Husserl’s phenomenology focusing on the constitutive aspect of rationality. From a century’s distance, however, we can see that those who continued Husserl’s investigations and the existentialists could meet and mingle readily because they had this in common, the vindication of full reality.

The two projects melded in the inquisitive minds (Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Stein, Merleau-Ponty, et al.) and numerous philosophical issues were expanded in various perspectives (the lived body, subjectivity, personhood, etc.) In a fruitful cross-pollination of insights, ideas, approaches, fused in one powerful wave and undermined the dominant reductionism, empiricism, naturalism then being disseminated throughout science and all domains of thought.

Existentialist rejection of ratiocination and speculation together with Husserl’s shift to seeking the genesis of meaning in experience closed a gap between philosophy and literature (Wahl, Marcel, Berdyaev, Wojtyla, Tischner, etc.), the foundational nature of language (Wittgenstein, Derrida, etc.) and opened the "hidden" behind the "veils" (see herein Sezgin and Dominguez-Rey).

This wondrous renewing wind had not only transformed the culture of our day, but has also paved the way to the renewal of our humanity in a New Enlightenment, to which we will pass in our following third and final volume in which we appreciate the impact and promise of Phenomenology and Existentialism in the twentieth century.