New Queries in Aesthetics and Metaphysics: Time, Historicity, Art, Culture, Metaphysics, the Transnatural BOOK 4 Phenomenology in the World Fifty Years after the Death of Edmund Husserl

457 Pages·1991·25.49 MB·English

by  Richard Cobb-Stevens (auth.)

NEW QUERIES IN AESTHETICS AND METAPHYSICS
ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA
THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
VOLUME XXXVII
Editor-in-Chief:
ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA
The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning
Belmont, Massachusetts
PHENOMENOLOGY IN THE WORLD
FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF EDMUND HUSSERL
Book 1 THE TURNING POINTS OF THE NEW PHENOMENOLOGICAL ERA
Husserl Research — Drawing upon the Full Extent of His Development
Book 2 HUSSERLIAN PHENOMENOLOGY IN A NEW KEY
Intersubjectivity, Ethos, the Societal Sphere, Human Encounter, Pathos
Book 3 HUSSERL'S LEGACY IN PHENOMENOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHIES
New Approaches to Reason, Language, Hermeneutics, the Human Condition
Book 4 NEW QUERIES IN AESTHETICS AND METAPHYSICS
Time, Historicity, Art, Culture, Metaphysics, the Transnatural
The Editor acknowledges the assistance of Robert Wise in the technical preparation of
these volumes.
NEW QUERIES IN
AESTHETICS AND METAPHYSICS
Time, Historicity, Art, Culture,
Metaphysics, the Transnatural
BOOK 4
Phenomenology in the World
Fifty Years after the Death of Edmund
Husserl
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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New queries in aesthetics and metaphysics : time, historicity, art,
culture, metaphysics, the transnatural / edited by Anna-Teresa
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the world fifty years after the death of Husserl ; bk. 4)
English, French, German, and Spanish.
Chiefly papers from the First World Congress of Phenomenology held
In Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Sept. 26-0ct. 1, 1988.
"Published under the auspices of the World Institute for Advanced
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD ix
INTRODUCTION xi
PART ONE
TIME, HISTORICITY, CULTURE
RICHARD COBB-STEVENS / Husserl and Historicism: Fifty
Years Later 3
ELLA BUCENIECE / The Teleology of the Historical Being in
Hartmann and Husserl 17
OLIVER W. HOLMES / Historical Time, Mind, and Critical
Philosophy of History 23
MARIA BIELA WKA / Does Man Co-Create Time? 55
ALCIRA B. BONILLA / The Reactivation of the Past as an
Ethical Demand on the Phenomenologist 65
CARLOS MINGUEZ / Hartmann: The Historicity of Cultural
Data 73
OCTA VI FULL AT I GENIS / Hombre y Civilizacion: 1492, La
Educacion Imposible 81
ANNIBALE SALSA / Phenomenology as a Theory of Culture 99
PART TWO
HUSSERLIAN AND POSTHUSSERLIAN
APPROACHES TO AESTHETICS
SAID TAWFIK / The Methodological Foundations of Phe-
nomenological Aesthetics 109
FILIPPO COST A / Bild und Kunst im Husserls Nachlass 123
MIHAl P ASTRAGUS / Aesthetic Concepts of a Phenomeno-
logical Origin 147
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VI T ABLE OF CONTENTS
ASBJ0RN AARNES / A Poet's Life and Work in the Perspec-
tive of Phenomenology 167
WACLAW M. OSADNIK and LUKASZ PLESNAR / On the
Quasi-Intentional Nature of Represented Objects in a Film
Work of Art 181
PART THREE
THE LIFE-SIGNIFICANCE OF LITERATURE
AND ITS INTERPRETATION
MARLIES KRONEGGER / Tymieniecka's Vindication of the
Life Significance of Literature. Homo Ludens and Homo
Creator: Scapino 195
SILVIA MANTEIGA POUSA/ The Enigma of Avant-Gardes 213
DARIO VILLANUEVA / Phenomenology and the Pragmatics
of Literary Realism 217
MARfA RUBIO MARTiN / The Reader and the Reality of the
Literary Text: Towards the Construction of Aesthetic Mean-
ing 237
MIODRAG CEKIC / Art as Communication 247
FERNANDO CABO ASEGUINOLAZA / Phenomenology and
the Reception of Literary Texts: The Implied Reader as an
Element of a Genre 261
CONSTANTIN CRISAN / L'Oeuvre Litteraire, La Construction
Interieure et la Reconstruction 275
SIDNEY FESHBACH / The Hundredlettered Name: Thunder
in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake 283
BRUCE ROSS / Refiguring Nature: Tropes of Estrangement in
Contemporary American Poetry 299
PART FOUR
MET APHYSICAL ISSUES IN AESTHETICS
IWONA LORENC / Anti-Metaphysical Thinking on Art (Hei-
degger and Merleau-Ponty) 315
CESAR MORENO MARQUEZ / The Sense of Possibility: On
the Ontologico-Eidetic Relevance of the Character (The
Experimental Ego) in Literary Experience 329
T ABLE OF CONTENTS Vll
JERZY SWIECIMSKI / Truth and Untruth in the Museum
Exhibition 343
HERNAN NEIRA / Nihilism and Noesis: The Contribution of
Phenomenology to the Sartrean Analysis of Flaubert 367
WOLFGANG WITTKOWSKI / Goethe and Schopenhauer: A
Phenomenology of the Final Vision in Faust II 383
SIT ANSU RAY / The Tagorean Interpretation of "Ami": Man's
Self-Esteem 409
MARIO A. PRESAS / The Magic of Art in the Magic-Less
World 413
RUBEN CARRASCO DE LA VEGA / EI Problema Einailogico 423
INDEX OF NAMES 447
FOREWORD
This collection is the final volume of a four book survey of the state of
phenomenology fifty years after the death of Edmund Husserl. Its
publication represents a landmark in the comprehensive treatment of
contemporary phenomenology in all its vastness and richness. The
diversity of the issues raised here is dazzling, but the main themes of
Husserl's thought are all either explicitly treated, or else they underlie
the ingenious approaches found here. Time, historicity, intentionality,
eidos, meaning, possibility/reality, and teleology are the main concerns
of this collection devoted to studies in aesthetics, metaphysics and
literary interpretation, written by such authors as, among others, R.
Cobb-Stevens, C. Moreno Marquez, J. Swiecimski, Sitansu Ray and M.
Kronegger.
These original studies of phenomenological aesthetics and literary
theory by scholars from all parts of the world were gathered by the
World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learn
ing during the year 1988/89 during its assessment of the phenomeno
logical movement, fifty years after Husserl's death.
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WORLD-WIDE PHENOMENOLOGY FULFILLING
HUSSERL'S PROJECT
An Introduction
What is the status of Husserl's phenomenology today? Does it play any
significant role or is it relegated to strictly historical research? Has the
phenomenology initiated by Husserl come to an end? There is hardly
any orthodox Husserlian today. But what is or could be an orthodox
Husserlian?
These questions come to mind when, even after fifty years of
discussions among scholars since the death of this great master of
phenomenology, we do not have a unified interpretation of his thought.
Moreover, such a unifying interpretation is altogether impossible in
view of Husserl's unfolding of his ever-expanding doctrine down to the
very end of his life, and of his reaching ever-new perspectives. The
possibility of a consensus about his thought recedes further and further
as rival or competing interpretations have stimulated new phenome
nologists and younger representatives to move in their own directions,
often stimulated by non-Husserlian factors and nourished by new ideas.
Lastly, the now vast field of research claiming allegiance to phenome
nology is diversified into numerous sectors inspired by the developing
thought of other classic phenomenologists and their followers.
As a matter of fact, it is often pointed out that phenomenology as a
philosophical trend is not due to one single thinker but was somehow
"in the air" at the beginning of this century. We trace its direct origins
to Franz Brentano and Edmund Husserl who, as the disciple inter
preting the master's intuitions in his own fashion, had elaborated the
starting point and foundations of phenomenology as a philosophia
prima. Yet, we acknowledge that the vigor, decisiveness, convincing
force, dissemination, as well as its launching as a new philosophical
approach by Husserl was supported, invigorated and carried out by
colleagues and friends who gathered around Husserl, such as Moritz
Geiger, Fritz Kaufmann, Adolph Reinach, A. Pfaender, Oscar Becker
and Max Scheler. They joined Husserl in his convictions while he
inspired and formed a group of students around him. Their work not
only contributed initially to launching the main porte parole of this new
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way of thinking, the lahrbuch fUr Philosophie, but their own original
phenomenological research has inspired in the past and is now inspiring
phenomenological investigations in various regions of philosophical
questions that they respectively undertook to investigate.
In short, it is obvious that the powerful current of thought into which
phenomenology gathered its momentum was the result of the meeting
of several minds, meeting in a strong conviction and prompted by their
personal inventive and talented efforts. It was truly a significant
moment in the history of Occidental culture that gave rise to this trend
as it is certainly also a significant situation of contemporary culture at
large that phenomenology, after having formed a school of thought, did
not fold its wings after one or two generations as did NeoKantianism
but rather is being acutely heard within the world, not only Occidental
or Oriental, but within the world wherever the present culture calls for
genuine philosophical inspiration.
In view of this vast expanse of thought and research which go on in
the present day in lines of innumerable diversifications, we naturally
must ask whether there is still a trend of shared features that could fall
under the common label of "phenomenology." I answer this question
emphatically in the affirmative. It is precisely in pointing to some basic
ideas of Husserl that they converge.
Don't we find, in fact, a pervading thread of the idea of inten
tionality, although extended to new areas? Is not the expansion of
phenomenological inquiry due to the discovery of the work of constitu
tion in previously unsuspected areas? In mentioning here just these two
main tenets of classic phenomenology expanded into present-day
thought, we cannot overlook the fulguration of thought provoked by
inquiries into the later Husserl's intuitions and the subsequent dis
coveries of historical, cultural and life elements entering into and
affecting present experience.
Recognizing, on the one hand, the essential contributions to the
classic phenomenological foundation-laying phase of phenomenology
by Husserl's associates, then and now a valid source of our investiga
tion, and, on the other hand, the innovative philosophical work by the
following generation, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Rombach and others not
forgetting such mavericks as Heidegger and Ortega y Gasset which
improved upon the pioneering ideas of the Husserl of his earlier and
middle period, we cannot fail to acknowledge the central role which the
work of Husserl plays within the entire phenomenologically oriented