Life — The Outburst of Life in the Human Sphere: Scientific Philosophy / Phenomenology of Life and the Sciences of Life. Book II

515 Pages·1999·8.242 MB·English

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

LIFE
THE OUTBURST OF LIFE IN THE HUMAN SPHERE
Scientific Philosophy I Phenomenology of Life and
the Sciences of Life
BOOK II
ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA
THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
VOLUME LX
Editor-in-Chief:
ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA
The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning
Belmont, Massachusetts
A Sequel to Volumes LIX, L, XLIX, XL VIII.
LIFE
THE OUTBURST OF LIFE IN THE
HUMAN SPHERE
Scientific Philosophy I Phenomenology of
Life and the Sciences of Life
Book II
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.
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Contents: bk. 1. Ontopolesis of llfe and the human creative
condltlon -- bk. 2. The outburst of ltfe In the human shpere.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IX
THE THEME I A New Copernican Turn in Western Culture:
Toward the Alliance between Philosophy of Life and the
Sciences of Life XI
INAUGURAL ESSAY
ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA I The Ontopoietic Self
lndividualisation of Being: In Search of the Foothold of
Change, Becoming and Transformation 3
PART I
INDIVIDUALITY AND COMPLEXITY - CLASSIC QUESTIONS
PERTAINING TO THE ONTOPOIESIS OF LIFE
FRANCESCO MOISO I Nature and Individuality 23
T AKAKO SHIKA Y A I Faktizitat und lndividualitat: Der friihe
Heidegger und Aristoteles 43
DANIELA VERDUCCI I Life and Human Life in Max Scheler:
Phenomenological Problems of Identification and Individ-
ualization 71
MARIA LETIZIA PERRI I The Lifeworld as Hermeneutical
Principle for Understanding the Human Condition: Functions
and Limits of the "Everyday Life" Concept 93
MAMUKA G. DOLIDZE I The Phenomenological Conception
of Quantum Theory and the Polyphony of Modern Fiction 113
ALEXANDRU GIUCULESCU I Outlines of an Axiology of
Human Creations 129
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PART II
SELF-REVELATION OF LIFE AND ITS HUMAN SPHERE
MIECZYSI:.AW PAWEI:. MIGON I The Ideals of Life in
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's Thought 137
ISABELLE GILLET I The Cosmic Tree According toLe Clezio
in Le Proces-Verbal, Desert and Le Chercheur d'Or 155
MARLIES KRONEGGER I Poetic Inspiration and the Renewal of
Life: Le Songe de Vaux 169
ANTONIO DOMINGUEZ REY I Groundwork for Ontopoetics 201
CHRISTINE BERTHOLD I Stefan Zweig and the Secret of
Artistic Creation 213
v ASILE v ASILE I Une Approche Phenomenologique de Ia
Musique Byzantine 223
EVA RIZZUTI and DA VIDE MONDA I Calvinistic Anthropology
and French Poetry in the Sixteenth Century: Purity and Guilt
in the Baroque Age 229
MARIA AVELINA CECILIA I Imagination and Practical
Creativity in Paul Ricoeur 241
PART III
THE EXISTENTIAL SPREAD
MARGARETE DURST I A Phenomenological Psychology of
Emotion: From Sartre 's Esquisse d'une Theorie des Emotions
to Ignacio Matte Blanco's Biological Theory 265
IRENE ANGELA BIANCHI I Solipsism, Empathy, Otherness: On
Husser/'s Overcoming of the "Closure" ofthe I, to Otherness
as a Guarantee of an "Aperture" to the World 277
SIMON DU PLOCK I Ontological Insecurity, Existential Self-
Analysis and Literature: The Case of Henry James 295
MINAH SEHDEV I The Construction of Reality in the Magic
World 315
VLADISLAV BORODULIN and ALEXEI VASILIEV I The
Phenomenon of Loneliness and the Meta-Theory of
Consciousness 327
PIERO TRUPIA I Economy and Social Planning: Economic
Development and the Mobilization of Society's Basic
Resources 333
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VERNA GEHRING I The Embodied Politics of Thomas Hobbes 355
J. C. COUCEIRO-BUENO I Ideology, Utopia and Religion: The
Monumental and Absolute Metaphors of Social Imagination 379
FRANCESCO TOTARO I Friedrich Nietzsche: Bringing Truth
to Life 391
PART IV
CONTINUITIES/DISCONTINUITIES OF LIFE'S EXPANSION
AURELIO RIZZACASA I On a Phenomenological Analysis of
the "Erlebnis" of Time 409
ELDON c. WAIT I How to Wake up from Descartes' Dream
or the Impossibility of a Complete Reduction 417
sPAs sPAs so v I Teleological Explanations and Reductionism
in Molecular Biology 431
ROBERTO GIUSTI I Life and Negativity: Towards an Ontology
of Human Lack 441
MARCO MILLUCCI I Human Creative Activity as Separability
of Principles: The Possibility of Good and Evil 461
GABRIELLA FIORI I Realism and Faith in Transformation
through the Creativeness of a Conscious Life: Simone Weil
(1909-1943) 473
INDEX OF NAMES 505
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This collection presents the studies read at the FIRST INTERNATIONAL
CONGRESS OF PHILOSOPHY/PHENOMENOLOGY OF LIFE AND
THE SCIENCE OF LIFE held by the Institute at the University of
Macerata in Italy, April 19-22nd, 1996.
We owe heartfelt thanks to our Italian co-organisers, especially to
the Department of Human Sciences of this university, which under the
direction of Professor Francesco Totaro has, with the direct help of
Professor Daniela Verducci, secretary general for the congress, and Daria
Carloni, prepared ideal conditions to hold the meeting in this beautiful
old city of Macerata, as well as carry its programme. First of all, however,
we express our thanks and appreciation to the numerous scholars from
various fields of learning who "heard" the call of urgency of our times
that brought our theme of "the philosophy of life and the sciences of life"
to the light in its bold, pioneering debut, and came to Macerata from
different parts of the world.
This collection holds the second batch of the papers, the first one
having been published in Volume LIX of the Analecta Husserliana.
Warm thanks are due, as usual, to our dedicated and learned copy
editors Isabelle Houthakker and Robert J. Wise, Jr. who expertly handled
the translations from foreign languages by polishing their English.
A-T. T.
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Panorama of Macerata.
THE THEME
A NEW COPERNICAN TURN IN WESTERN CULTURE
Toward the Alliance between Philosophy of Life and
the Sciences of Life
The striking fact in the present time of Western culture is that the roads
traditionally trodden throughout history by philosophy as well as by
science seem to be eroding, their direction dispersing and with great
intensity and forceful efforts, new openings and passways are being
sought and drilled. At the heart of these strivings, some radically new
starts and strategies are being devised. I have in mind here the widely
spreading inspiration of the phenomenology/philosophy of life, and the
upsurge of the sciences of life on the one hand - and the so-called "new
Science", on the other.
The nature of these developments on both sides calls for a genuine
alliance to be struck between phenomenology/philosophy of life and
the sciences of life.
Philosophy began with the same search after the understanding of
the world that gave birth to science. Entwining in history and sepa
rating by unfolding different approaches to reality, different methods
of appreciation and postulates up to an opposition reaching as far as
the opposition between "calculating" on the one side and "intuitive"
method, on the other, would separate them, a separation in which reigned
mistrust and misgivings. Philosophy and science vainly tried to built
bridges over. They were successful, at best marginally, in absorbing
one another. With the new developments mentioned above, however, they
take an analogous turn in which they necessitate each other.
It is remarkable to see how nowadays the hard sciences - biology in
all its sectors: neurology, genetics, embryology, etc. lay out their material
in evidence of intuitive observations - referring often to phenomeno
logical description and laying down the foundations of "sciences of
life" - as if seeking their further interpretation in philosophical reflec
tion. It is equally startling to witness a closing of the circle in which
philosophy has been moving for two thousand years corroborating and
digesting the concepts, ideas, intuition which laid down its perimeters,
and awakening to a novel start. In fact, phenomenology/philosophy of
life leaves behind the millenial conceptual tissue through which reality
has been seen, to encounter reality itself: LIFE.
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