Life the Human Quest for an Ideal: 25th Anniversary Publication Book II

346 Pages·1996·6.26 MB·English

by  Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (auth.)

LIFE
THE HUMAN QUEST FOR AN IDEAL
ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA
THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
VOLUME XLIX
Editor-in-Chief:
ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA
The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning
Belmont, Massachusetts
25th Anniversary Publication
Book I Life
In the Glory -of its Radiating Manirestations
Book II Life
The Human Quest for an Ideal
Book III Life
Phenomenology of Life as the Starting Point of Philosophy
For sequel volumes see end of this volume.
LIFE
THE HUMAN QUEST
FOR AN IDEAL
25th Anniversary Publication
Book II
Edited by
MARLIES KRONEGGER
Michigan Stare University, East Lansing
and
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, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
L 1f e the human quest for an 1dea I ' ed 1t ed by Mar l1es Kronegger and
Anna-Teresa Tym1en1ecka.
p. cm. -- 125th ann1versary publ1cat1on ; bk. 21 (Analecta
Husser 11 ana ; v. 491
Eng1 1sh and French.
Proceed1ngs of the 34th International Phenomenology Conference.
he1d Aug. 22-25. 1994. 1n Graz, Austr1a.
Includes 1n0ex.
1. Li fe--Congresses. 2. Idea I s ( Ph 1 1o soohy 1- -Congresses.
3. Phi losophy 1n 11terature--Congresses. 4. Crlt1C1sm--Congresses.
5. Husserl, Edmuno. 1859-1938--Congresses. I. Kronegger. Mari 1es.
1932- II. Tym1en1ec•a. Anna-Teresa. III. International
Phenomenology Conference 134th 1994 Graz. Austr1a> ~V. Ser1es.
V. Ser1es, Analeeta Husserl 1ana ; v. 49.
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APPRECIATIVE THANKS
TO OUR COLLEAGUES AND AUTHORS
On introducing to the learned community this second volume marking
our 25th Anniversary, I would like to express on behalf of all the Institute
deeply feit thanks not only to all the contributors to this collection but
to all of those who through these years have by their effort and inspi
ration pushed our work forward into the further, deeper, loftier realms
of the spirit. Our specialists in philosophical reflection find in our
dialogue with scholars in Iiterature and the fine arts a particularly boun
tiful source of fresh insight. And the latter find their intuitions deepened
in the formulations of the philosophers.
In this volume the reader may sample this dialogue as it was played
out at our XXXIVth International Phenomenology Conference, which
took place August 22-25, 1994 under the direction of Prof. Marlies
Kronegger. We owe special thanks to our hosts - Dr H. Konrad, Rector
Magnificus; Rudolf Haller and Elisabeth List of the Department of
Philosophy; and Mrs Sonja Rinoffer-Kreidl - for providing wonderful
facilities and helping with local arrangements. Special thanks are due
also to the Governor of Styria and the Mayor of the City of Graz for
the hospitality of the lavish reception given for conference participants.
Above all, it was due to the talent and grace of Marlies Kronegger,
president of the International Society for Phenomenology and Literature,
that this conference, like so many others of the Society, was truly an
unforgettable expreience.
This 25th Anniversary of the Society is also an appropriate time to
express the Institute's appreciation for the dedicated and faithful work
of Mr Robert Wise Jr., who with painstaking effort has brought more
than twenty-five of our volumes into printed form, as well as for the work
that Louis Houthakker performs in the day-to-day operations of the
Institute.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
V
M. Kroneggerand A-T. Tyrnieniecka (eds.), Analeeta Husserliana, Vol. XLIX, v.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPRECIATIVE THANKS V
MARLIES KRONEOGER I The Theme: The ldeas of/for
Humankind xi
INAUGURAL STUDY
ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA I The Golden Measure: The
Self-individualization of Life Bringing to Fruition the Ideal
for a New Epoch 3
PARTONE
THE IDEAL: ASCENSION IN TROUBLED TIMES
GYÖRGY E. SZÖNYI 1 Occult Ascension in Troubled Times:
The Ideals of Mankind in Rudolf Steinerand Bela Hamvas 29
JOAN B. WILLIAMSON I Jean Anouilh's Thirst for the Absolute
and His Formulation of the Ideal 45
ALISON WEBSTER I Francis Hutcheson: Political Ideals 61
LA WRENCE KIMMEL I Human Kind in Literature: The Ideals
of Fiction- The Fiction of Ideals 71
MARIA AVELINA CECILIA I The Paradox of the Ideals of
Humankind: Paul Ricoeur's Approach 19
PART TWO
ON THE WAY
w. MSOSA I Narrative ldentity: Situating a Postmodern Ideal 99
JEAN THERESA STROMMER and JOAN ELIZABETH
STROMMER 1 Transeendeuce in Poetry, Music and Film:
La Corona (lohn Donne, Ernst Krenek, Joan & Jean
Strammer, 1609!194111987) Iconic Implications ofCircular
Structures 107
vii
viii TABLE OF CONTENTS
WILLIAM E. CONKLIN I Husserl, the Differend and Kafka's
The Trial 115
NANCY CAMPI DE CASTRO I Roland Barthes and Critical
"Romanesque" 127
CYNTHIA OSOWIEC RU OFF I Le Clezio's L' /nconnu sur Ia
terre: Man, Nature, Creativity and Cosmology 133
PART THREE
THE SEARCH FOR HARMONY
RICARDO PINILLA 1 Thinking about Harmony as Category and
Value in the Aesthetics of Hege! and Krause 149
s IT ANs U RA Y 1 Shesher Kabita: Tagorean Ideals Towards the
Man-Woman Relationship 165
BIANCA MARIA D'IPPOLITO I L. Binswanger sur Hofmanns-
thal: L' Esprit et Ia souffrance 175
FRANCIS P. CRAWLEY I The Human Face of Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein 195
PAULI PYLKKÖ I Dasein Naturalized 203
PART FOUR
PHILOSOPHY FOCUSING ON THE HUMAN BEING
EMILIO DI VITO 1 Materialistic and Poetic Humanism in
G. Leopardi 221
ARASU BALAN 1 Subjectivism and Phenomenology 239
GARY E. OVERVOLD 1 Husserl, Mann, and the Modemist Crisis
of Culture 251
JESSE T. AIRAUDI 1 "A Rock of Defence for Human Nature":
Philosophical and Literary Approaches to the Causes of
Violence 265
ROMANO ROMANI I Freedom and Philosophy 283
PART FIVE
THE EUROPEAN MESSAGE
ROSEMARIE KIEFFER I Le Message Europeen: Pierre Frieden
(1892-1959) 297
T ABLE OF CONTENTS ix
GYÖRGY M. VAJDA 1 The Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy
Approached from a Phenomenological Angle 301
s IT ANs u RA Y 1 European Schalars on Indian Music 311
WOLFGANG WITTKOWSKI I "Be Nice to One Another!":
Morality, the Embattled Ideal in Eighteenth Century German
Literature 329
INDEX OF NAMES 339
MARLIES KRONEOGER
THE THEME:
THE IDEALS OF/FOR HUMANKIND
The phenomenological approach to literature, as illustrated by our par
ticipants from all over the world, transcends the conventional boundaries
of literary study. lt represents a movement away from narrow, fragmen
tary specialization and towards broad integrative scholarship. While in 1900
Husserl introduced to the world the idea of a new philosophy demanding
of philosophy both a new vigor and a new humanism, Anna-Teresa
Tymieniecka's phenomenology of life grasps the issues which are truly
central for the world community since she has always feit solidarity with
humanity regardless of frontiers, passports, or flags or, for that matter,
regardless of disciplines. She presents a vision of life as an ever-expanding
creative coherence which surpasses itself at every instant. She proposes
that we act in such a way that our actions and most recent thoughts do not
disturb the harmony of which they are elements. Tymieniecka's treatises
propose a specifically human self-individualization-in-existence of which
the creative act, always in conflict with the constituted world, is the vortex.
For her the most vital function of the phenomenology of life is to foster
the integral unfolding of individuals so that they be in accord with them
selves (the microcosm), their culture (the mesocosm), and the universe (the
macrocosm) and with the ultimate mystery both beyond and within them
selves and in all things, in life and death, in inward sacredness and
transcendence. It is the creative orchestration of human existence and of
everything-there-is-alive that is Tymieniecka's path and vision. She takes
the path in order to become the path herself. Her vision is the spontaneaus
response of the poetic imagination to the challenges thrown before man.
Our situation is a microcosm of the world around us, the world in
which we live, breathe pollution, suffocate, or transcend. Today the basic
rhythms of life are overtumed. The violent rifts in today's world force
their way through the rational control of consciousness and logical dis
course. The discordance of these invasions create a pervasive sense of
violence. Basic areas of civilized order, the moral, aesthetic, natural,
and intellectual orders are called into question. Various violations of these
orders are present in our mass culture, which infiltrates our personallives
resulting in a disturbing collocation of political, commercial, and domestic
xi
M. Kroneggerand A-T. Tymieniecka (eds.), Analeeta Husserliana, Vol. XLIX, xi-xii.
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