Creative Virtualities in Human Self-Interpretation-in-Culture: Phenomenology of Life and the Human Creative Condition (Book IV)

382 Pages·1998·7.522 MB·English

by  Ella Buceniece (auth.), Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (eds.)

CREATIVE VIRTUALITIES IN HUMAN
SELF-INTERPRETATION -IN -CULTURE
ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA
THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
VOLUME LV
Editor-in-Chief:
ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA
The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning
Belmont, Massachusetts
For sequel volumes see the end of this volume.
CREATIVE VIRTUALITIES IN
HUMAN SELF-INTERPRETATION
IN-CULTURE
Phenomenology of Life and the
Human Creative Condition (Book IV)
Edited by
ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA
The World Phenomenology Institute
Published under the auspices of
The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning
A-T. Tymieniecka, President
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Phenomenology of life and the human creative condition / edited by
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.
p. cm. (Analecta Husserliana ; v. 52-55)
Papers presented at the Second World Phenomenology Congress, Sept.
12-18, 1995, Guadalajara, Mexico
"Published under the auspices of the World Institute for Advances
Phenomenological Research and Leaming."
Includes index.
Contents: bk. 1. Laying down the comerstones of the field --bk.
2. The reincamating mind, or, The ontopoietic outburst in creative
virtualities --bk. 3. Ontopoietic expansion in human self
-interpretation-in-existence --bk. 4. Creative virtualities in human
self-interpretation-in-ex istence.
ISBN 978-94-010-6050-9 ISBN 978-94-011-4890-0 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-4890-0
1. Phenomenology--Congresses. 2. Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938-
-Congresses. 3. Life--Congresses. 4. Creative ability--Congresses.
1. Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. II. World Institute for Advanced
Phenomenological Research and Leaming. III. World Congress of
Phenomenology (2nd : 1995 : Guadalajara, Mexico) IV. Series.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IX
THE THEME xi
PART ONE
THE ETHICAL IMPULSE IN HUSSERL:
INDIVIDUAL, CULTURE, HUMANITY
ELLA BUCENIECE / The Ethical Evolution of Mankind in
Husserl's Phenomenology 3
GARY E. OVERVOLD / Husserl and the Tradition 13
CHRISTINE SPAHN / Der ethische Impuls der Husserlschen
Phanomenologie 25
PART TWO
VA LU AT ION , CULTURE, IDEOLOG IES
JOHN FRANCIS BURKE / Phenomenology and Multiculturalism:
Moving Beyond Assimilation and Utter Diversity Through a
Substantive Pluralism 85
OCTAVI FULLAT I GENIS / Our Values of Expectation/
Expedition: A Study of their Hebrew Origin 95
ENRIQUE DUSSEL / Arquitect6nica de la Etica de la Liberaci6n:
Para una Etica de la Vida del Sujeto Humano 125
CARLOS 1. RAMOS-MATTEI/Value Orientation and Human
Creativity 161
ZOFIA MAJEWSKA / Roman Ingarden's Philosophy of Culture:
An Attempt at a Reconstruction 177
JIM I. UNAH / On the Alleged Dilemma in a Work Being Both
African and Philosophy 193
v
VI T ABLE OF CONTENTS
PART THREE
THE MEANDERS OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S ATTUNEMENT
AND INTEGRATION WITH OTHERS WITHIN THE
CULTURAL HARMONISATION
KRYSTYNA DANECKA-SZOPOWA / Commonplaceness as a
Difficult Situation for Man 215
MAXINE SHEETS-JOHNSTONE / On the Significance of
Animate Form 225
MARIA LUISA PFEIFFER / Heart Transplantation: A Cor-
poreality Perspective 243
CHRISTER BJURVILL / Analyzing Images of the Future: The
Ironic Twist 259
R. TELTCHAROVA-KOURENKOVA, E. PLEKHANOV and s.
SISOV A / La Phenomenologie de la Formation: Les Aspects
du Probleme 281
PART FOUR
MISSING AND RETRIEVING THE SPONTANEOUS
PARTICIPATION WITH THE OTHER WITHIN
THE CULTURAL NETWORK OF LIFE
E V A S YR lSi' ov A / The One and the Many in the Schizo-
phrenic Life-World: The "Zenonian Syndrome" 291
BRUNO CALLIERI / Phenomenological Psychopathology of
Interpersonal Communications: A Point of View 295
EDUARDO BOLIVAR / On Human Alienation: A Phenomeno-
logical Inquiry of the Schizoid Personality 301
MIGUEL JARQUIN MARIN / La Profundidad: Un Enfoque
Dimensional de Mi Encuentro con el Otro 319
MARY ROSE BARRAL / Intersubjective Communication and
Psycho-Impairment 337
PART FIVE
MORALITY OSCILLATING BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL
STEVEN ZUCKER / The Language of Evil: Hannah Arendt and
the Abstract Expressionist Response to the Second World
War 345
T ABLE OF CONTENTS vii
YUDIT RONEN / Foreknowledge, Free Will and Modal Logic 359
FREDERICK SONT AG / Nothing In or Out of the World is All
Good or All Bad, All Gods Included 369
INDEX OF NAMES 377
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Words fail me to express the warm friendship and hospitality exuded
by our Mexican hosts at our Second World Congress of Phenomenology
in Guadalajara Mexico, September 11-18, 1995 ... a gathering of a
worldwide phenomenological community sharing in the seminal ideas
of the Phenomenology of Life and of the Human Creative Condition.
Thanks are due from the Institute as well as from all the participants,
who enjoyed the beautiful buildings, campus, and atmosphere of the
Universidad del Valle de Atemajac - where the congress was celebrated
- to Doctor Santiago Mendez Bravo, the Rector, Dr. Cesario Hernandez,
Vice-Rector, and Dr. Xavier Rodriguez, chairman of the Department of
Philosophy, as well as to our co-organizers of this event, Dr Sergio X.
Vazquez and our longtime collaborator in the Institute, Dr. Miguel Jarquin
Marin, both from the Institute de Terapia Gestalt Region Occidente
(INTEGRO), for their dedicated efforts to assure a perfectly smooth
running of the Congress. We owe gratitude for their generous hospi
tality to the families who took foreign participants into their own
homes, offering them a real taste of the Mexican spirit, culture and
warmth. This will remain long in all our memories. Moreover the enthu
siasm of our Spanish-speaking dialogue led to our organizing of a
Sociedad Iberoamericana de F enomenologia.
My repeated thanks go to our assistant editor Robert S. Wise,
and our administrative assistant Louis T. Houthakker who works on the
premises of the Institute, for their expert and careful work in finalizing
the Congress's preparations and logistics. Mr. Wise and Miss Isabelle
Houthakker prepared the index and deserve, appreciation for the copy
editing and proofreading of the volume.
A-T. T.
ix
THE THEME
PHENOMENOLOGY WORLDWIDE
Creative Virtualities in the Human Self-Interpretation in Culture
Culture, which manifests the circuits of the human spirit, is the histor
ical process of human self-interpretation-in-existence. Having its source
in the creative virtualities of the human condition, it partakes of all the
rays of its realization, of all the lines of unfolding in which the human
being - the self and the other - weave a common web sustaining their
strictly individual progress. Thus, all the rays thrown out from the creative
forge of the human being find their role within the fabric of culture, which
involves progressively wider circles of human community, and which
is transformed by drawing upon the life of the spirit of individual human
beings - human beings whose self-interpretation-in-existence calls for
integrative attunement with others in their progress and changing life
conditions. Thus, into the consideration of culture there enter all the
rays of philosophical reflection: moral, aesthetic, metaphysical, episte
mological, semiological, cognitive, etc.
Our present day culture stands under the gaze of penetrating scrutiny.
Will this vision of the philosophy/phenomenology of life encompassing
the entire manifestation of the human spirit in life, while bringing it to
the creative forge of the human condition in which all the rationalities
of life find their common, harmonizing encounter, elevate present day
culture?
In fact, one would superficially believe that our present day humanity
has dethroned the human spirit, undercutting the very foundations of
the validity of truth, moral values, principles. It seems that present day
humanity does not seek to discern what is beautiful and true and what
is not. It is functional and pragmatic usefulness that seems to dominate
the scene of human evaluation and transaction with other human beings
and animals. That popular taste seems to favor elementary drives, extir
pating fine feelings from its sphere of experience and replacing them with
common instincts. It has detached our humanity from the works of the
human spirit in its "higher" aesthetic, moral and intellectual circuits.
The culture of the mind is naturally meant to disperse the light of the
spirit through life's involvements; human rapport, appreciation and enjoy
ment of life being seemingly at their height when sharply differentiated
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xii THE THEME
from the rationalities of the bios. Thus, the life of the spirit is often
situated on the one side of a gulf opposite science with its rationali
ties. Present day human attitudes favor the strictly elementary and seem
to invite culture's reduction to science. In other words the great meta
physical questions we raise, those of telos, of sense, the prospects of
human life often find answers involving scientific conceptions. These,
however, are at least incomplete, if not fragmentary, and in principle
hypothetical and in view of the prevailing outcry against what has been
known as "high culture", the prevailing questions remain. Is humanity,
disabused of ideals, higher aspirations, and values by downgrading them
to "illusion", going to abdicate its crowning mission?
It is here that the unprejudiced vision of life projected in our work
throughout the three preceding books comes into its own. Already in
Book I (Laying Down the Cornerstones of the Field) we have delin
eated the compass of this vision, in which plumbing bios responds to
the great claim of life's self-individualizing principle for the ascer
taining of the role of the unity of all living beings. This principle also
deciphers the harmonizing effect of the common source of the entire
human universe of life in the glorious manifestation that is the human
spirit. It is toward its highest circuits that the human soul naturally aspires
for fulfillment.
In this collection we focus on the various perspectives of cultural
differentiation, its ethical and moral modalities, the meanders of indi
vidual attunement to others in propitious as well as adverse situations,
and numerous other perspectives in which the flow or ebb of the human
spirit manifests itself in the human orbit, and thus do we vindicate culture
as the sitio or roots of human reality.
A-T. T.