Ronald Bruzina
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300092097
- eISBN:
- 9780300130157
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300092097.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
This chapter discusses philosophy's sense of time and place; if it is not the work of a particular someone at a particular time and in a particular place, then it is not at all. This chapter focuses ...
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This chapter discusses philosophy's sense of time and place; if it is not the work of a particular someone at a particular time and in a particular place, then it is not at all. This chapter focuses on the philosophy that was conducted in a special place at a very special time in the history of the twentieth century, particularly the question of the particular someone. It was not just one particular person who was involved; there was a second particular someone engaged in this same philosophic endeavor. The two were Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink, working together in intense daily contact in Freiburg, during a period of social and political upheaval. The problems that were defined in this collaboration very much determined the character that phenomenology possessed in Husserl's final years.Less
This chapter discusses philosophy's sense of time and place; if it is not the work of a particular someone at a particular time and in a particular place, then it is not at all. This chapter focuses on the philosophy that was conducted in a special place at a very special time in the history of the twentieth century, particularly the question of the particular someone. It was not just one particular person who was involved; there was a second particular someone engaged in this same philosophic endeavor. The two were Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink, working together in intense daily contact in Freiburg, during a period of social and political upheaval. The problems that were defined in this collaboration very much determined the character that phenomenology possessed in Husserl's final years.
Robert C. Solomon
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195181579
- eISBN:
- 9780199786602
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195181573.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Sartre’s first novel, Nausea, is quite clearly a working out of the phenomenological insights he was developing at the time in such works as “Transcendence of the Ego” and “The Emotions”. This ...
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Sartre’s first novel, Nausea, is quite clearly a working out of the phenomenological insights he was developing at the time in such works as “Transcendence of the Ego” and “The Emotions”. This chapter explores the basic tenets of Sartre’s phenomenology, focusing in particular on his rejection of certain themes in his mentor, Edmund Husserl. It also spends considerable time looking at the perversity of Sartre’s central character, Roquentin, who quite clearly resembles Sartre himself at that time in his situation and his provincial circumstances.Less
Sartre’s first novel, Nausea, is quite clearly a working out of the phenomenological insights he was developing at the time in such works as “Transcendence of the Ego” and “The Emotions”. This chapter explores the basic tenets of Sartre’s phenomenology, focusing in particular on his rejection of certain themes in his mentor, Edmund Husserl. It also spends considerable time looking at the perversity of Sartre’s central character, Roquentin, who quite clearly resembles Sartre himself at that time in his situation and his provincial circumstances.
Thomas Ryckman
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- April 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195177176
- eISBN:
- 9780199835324
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195177177.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Weyl’s major contributions in the spring of 1918 to the general theory of relativity and to constructive analysis reveal the influence of Husserl’s transcendental-phenomenological idealism. The known ...
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Weyl’s major contributions in the spring of 1918 to the general theory of relativity and to constructive analysis reveal the influence of Husserl’s transcendental-phenomenological idealism. The known personal contacts of Weyl and Husserl are summarized, and Husserl’s development of a distinctively transcendental approach to phenomenology is traced. A synopsis is given of the salient methodological aspects of Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology in evidence in Weyl’s “pure infinitesimal geometry”, and in its use as a framework “world geometry” for gravitation and electromagnetism.Less
Weyl’s major contributions in the spring of 1918 to the general theory of relativity and to constructive analysis reveal the influence of Husserl’s transcendental-phenomenological idealism. The known personal contacts of Weyl and Husserl are summarized, and Husserl’s development of a distinctively transcendental approach to phenomenology is traced. A synopsis is given of the salient methodological aspects of Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology in evidence in Weyl’s “pure infinitesimal geometry”, and in its use as a framework “world geometry” for gravitation and electromagnetism.
David Clarke
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199553792
- eISBN:
- 9780191728617
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199553792.003.0010
- Subject:
- Psychology, Music Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Husserl's phenomenology in general and his study of time consciousness in particular retain currency in present-day thought, not least for consciousness studies. Therefore, and also because of its ...
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Husserl's phenomenology in general and his study of time consciousness in particular retain currency in present-day thought, not least for consciousness studies. Therefore, and also because of its recurring references to music, it promises a productive place from which to launch an inquiry into music and consciousness. This chapter uses Husserl's rich insights to draw out the possibilities that music and consciousness offer for a reciprocal understanding, while at the same time not being oblivious to the various lacunae and (productive) theoretical contradictions of the Phenomenology. The analysis is conducted through three musico-philosophical meditations, each identifying a different standpoint from which to consider Husserl. The first draws on the ‘microgenetic’ theory of Jason Brown; the second on the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Roman Jakobson; and the third on Derrida's seminal critique of Husserl. These meditations are to a degree autonomous; each pursues its own line of argument to its own conclusion, and tends to unfold as an essay in its own right. Yet, while the intention is not to create a higher synthesis between these three studies, there are connections between them, and their effect is cumulative.Less
Husserl's phenomenology in general and his study of time consciousness in particular retain currency in present-day thought, not least for consciousness studies. Therefore, and also because of its recurring references to music, it promises a productive place from which to launch an inquiry into music and consciousness. This chapter uses Husserl's rich insights to draw out the possibilities that music and consciousness offer for a reciprocal understanding, while at the same time not being oblivious to the various lacunae and (productive) theoretical contradictions of the Phenomenology. The analysis is conducted through three musico-philosophical meditations, each identifying a different standpoint from which to consider Husserl. The first draws on the ‘microgenetic’ theory of Jason Brown; the second on the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Roman Jakobson; and the third on Derrida's seminal critique of Husserl. These meditations are to a degree autonomous; each pursues its own line of argument to its own conclusion, and tends to unfold as an essay in its own right. Yet, while the intention is not to create a higher synthesis between these three studies, there are connections between them, and their effect is cumulative.
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226723402
- eISBN:
- 9780226723419
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226723419.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
This chapter examines the phenomenological epistemology of Edmund Husserl. It argues against the claim that Husserl's position emerged out of his critical reception of Franz Brentano and suggests ...
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This chapter examines the phenomenological epistemology of Edmund Husserl. It argues against the claim that Husserl's position emerged out of his critical reception of Franz Brentano and suggests that it was out of his reaction to Immanuel Kant. The chapter considers the development of Husserl's position as a continuing effort to resolve difficulties, particularly with respect psychologism. It also analyzes the changing phenomenological position of Husserl in his works Logical Investigations, Ideas, and The Idea of Phenomenology and discusses his theory of phenomenology as transcendental idealism.Less
This chapter examines the phenomenological epistemology of Edmund Husserl. It argues against the claim that Husserl's position emerged out of his critical reception of Franz Brentano and suggests that it was out of his reaction to Immanuel Kant. The chapter considers the development of Husserl's position as a continuing effort to resolve difficulties, particularly with respect psychologism. It also analyzes the changing phenomenological position of Husserl in his works Logical Investigations, Ideas, and The Idea of Phenomenology and discusses his theory of phenomenology as transcendental idealism.
Eugene Montague
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199553792
- eISBN:
- 9780191728617
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199553792.003.0022
- Subject:
- Psychology, Music Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter compares what is termed ‘the hard problem’ in the study of consciousness with a similar issue in music scholarship. The grounds for this comparison are difficulties common to both ...
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This chapter compares what is termed ‘the hard problem’ in the study of consciousness with a similar issue in music scholarship. The grounds for this comparison are difficulties common to both disciplines, to do with the incorporation of subjective experience within an objective explanatory framework. In highlighting these common difficulties, it is suggested that they may be open to similar solutions. In particular, it is argued that musicology would do well to revisit theoretical perspectives that reject a fundamental opposition between objective and subjective, such as the (European) Continental tradition of phenomenology, since such perspectives have proved useful in meeting challenges posed in the study of consciousness. In this vein, the chapter takes a fresh look at Edmund Husserl's well-known analysis of time consciousness, using this analysis to provide a theoretical framework within which to understand the objectivity of a musical piece through the subjective experience of the performing body. Such an understanding can provide a resolution to the difficulties that underlie the hard problem of music. This is demonstrated through a brief analytical engagement with a Chopin étude.Less
This chapter compares what is termed ‘the hard problem’ in the study of consciousness with a similar issue in music scholarship. The grounds for this comparison are difficulties common to both disciplines, to do with the incorporation of subjective experience within an objective explanatory framework. In highlighting these common difficulties, it is suggested that they may be open to similar solutions. In particular, it is argued that musicology would do well to revisit theoretical perspectives that reject a fundamental opposition between objective and subjective, such as the (European) Continental tradition of phenomenology, since such perspectives have proved useful in meeting challenges posed in the study of consciousness. In this vein, the chapter takes a fresh look at Edmund Husserl's well-known analysis of time consciousness, using this analysis to provide a theoretical framework within which to understand the objectivity of a musical piece through the subjective experience of the performing body. Such an understanding can provide a resolution to the difficulties that underlie the hard problem of music. This is demonstrated through a brief analytical engagement with a Chopin étude.
Thomas Ryckman
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- April 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195177176
- eISBN:
- 9780199835324
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195177177.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
The general theory of relativity (1915) was also a defining event for 20th century philosophy of science. During the decisive first ten years of the theory’s existence, two main tendencies dominated ...
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The general theory of relativity (1915) was also a defining event for 20th century philosophy of science. During the decisive first ten years of the theory’s existence, two main tendencies dominated its philosophical reception. It is argued that the path actually taken, which became logical empiricist philosophy of science, greatly contributed to the current impasse over scientific realism. On the other hand, new possibilities are opened in revisiting and reviving the spirit of a more sophisticated tendency, here broadly termed ‘transcendental idealism,’ a cluster of viewpoints principally associated with Ernst Cassirer, Hermann Weyl, and Arthur Eddington. In particular, Weyl’s reformulation of gravitational and electromagnetic theory within the framework of a “pure infinitesimal geometry” under the explicit inspiration of Edmund Husserl’s transcendental-phenomenological idealism is traced in detail and further articulated. It is further argued that Einstein, though initially paying lip service to the emerging philosophy of logical empiricism, ended up siding de facto with the broad contours of the transcendental idealist tendency, which is also a significant progenitor of the contemporary point of view misleadingly designated “structural realism”.Less
The general theory of relativity (1915) was also a defining event for 20th century philosophy of science. During the decisive first ten years of the theory’s existence, two main tendencies dominated its philosophical reception. It is argued that the path actually taken, which became logical empiricist philosophy of science, greatly contributed to the current impasse over scientific realism. On the other hand, new possibilities are opened in revisiting and reviving the spirit of a more sophisticated tendency, here broadly termed ‘transcendental idealism,’ a cluster of viewpoints principally associated with Ernst Cassirer, Hermann Weyl, and Arthur Eddington. In particular, Weyl’s reformulation of gravitational and electromagnetic theory within the framework of a “pure infinitesimal geometry” under the explicit inspiration of Edmund Husserl’s transcendental-phenomenological idealism is traced in detail and further articulated. It is further argued that Einstein, though initially paying lip service to the emerging philosophy of logical empiricism, ended up siding de facto with the broad contours of the transcendental idealist tendency, which is also a significant progenitor of the contemporary point of view misleadingly designated “structural realism”.
Ronald Bruzina
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300092097
- eISBN:
- 9780300130157
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300092097.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Eugen Fink was Edmund Husserl's research assistant during the last decade of the renowned phenomenologist's life, a period in which Husserl's philosophical ideas were radically recast. This book ...
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Eugen Fink was Edmund Husserl's research assistant during the last decade of the renowned phenomenologist's life, a period in which Husserl's philosophical ideas were radically recast. This book shows that Fink was actually a collaborator with Husserl, contributing indispensable elements to their common enterprise. Drawing on hundreds of notes and drafts by Fink, it highlights the scope and depth of his theories and critiques. The book places these philosophical formulations in their historical setting, organizes them around such key themes as the world, time, life, and the concept and methodological place of the “meontic,” and demonstrates that they were a pivotal impetus for the renewing of “regress to the origins” in transcendental-constitutive phenomenology.Less
Eugen Fink was Edmund Husserl's research assistant during the last decade of the renowned phenomenologist's life, a period in which Husserl's philosophical ideas were radically recast. This book shows that Fink was actually a collaborator with Husserl, contributing indispensable elements to their common enterprise. Drawing on hundreds of notes and drafts by Fink, it highlights the scope and depth of his theories and critiques. The book places these philosophical formulations in their historical setting, organizes them around such key themes as the world, time, life, and the concept and methodological place of the “meontic,” and demonstrates that they were a pivotal impetus for the renewing of “regress to the origins” in transcendental-constitutive phenomenology.
PETER SIMONS
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199241460
- eISBN:
- 9780191696930
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199241460.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology, Logic/Philosophy of Mathematics
This book provides a connected account of the various kinds of mereology, or formal theory of part, whole, and related concepts, which exist in the literature. It also exposes the philosophical ...
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This book provides a connected account of the various kinds of mereology, or formal theory of part, whole, and related concepts, which exist in the literature. It also exposes the philosophical defects of most of this tradition, and suggests why, where, and how it should be put right. The standardly accepted formal theory of part-whole is classical extensional mereology, which is known in two logical guises, the Calculus of Individuals of Henry Leonard and Nelson Goodman, and the Mereology of Stanislaw Leśniewski. Despite the discrepancies between the underlying logics of these two approaches, there is a precise sense in which both say the same things about parts and wholes. The book also considers the mereology of continuants and brings modality and mereology together as they are found in the work of Edmund Husserl at the beginning of the century and later in that of Roderick Chisholm.Less
This book provides a connected account of the various kinds of mereology, or formal theory of part, whole, and related concepts, which exist in the literature. It also exposes the philosophical defects of most of this tradition, and suggests why, where, and how it should be put right. The standardly accepted formal theory of part-whole is classical extensional mereology, which is known in two logical guises, the Calculus of Individuals of Henry Leonard and Nelson Goodman, and the Mereology of Stanislaw Leśniewski. Despite the discrepancies between the underlying logics of these two approaches, there is a precise sense in which both say the same things about parts and wholes. The book also considers the mereology of continuants and brings modality and mereology together as they are found in the work of Edmund Husserl at the beginning of the century and later in that of Roderick Chisholm.
Alain Beaulieu
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748632992
- eISBN:
- 9780748652570
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748632992.003.0014
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter suggests that phenomenologist Edmund Husserl hold a place of honour in Gilles Deleuze's dramaturgy. It explains that Deleuze was interested in Husserl and in phenomenology because it was ...
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This chapter suggests that phenomenologist Edmund Husserl hold a place of honour in Gilles Deleuze's dramaturgy. It explains that Deleuze was interested in Husserl and in phenomenology because it was essential for Deleuze to maintain a detached relationship with a friend/enemy capable of keeping him in suspense up to the end. The chapter argues that Deleuze was not a simple follower of Husserl, but that he took from the latter a certain orientation of thought which gives a new twist to the major themes of Cartesian Meditations.Less
This chapter suggests that phenomenologist Edmund Husserl hold a place of honour in Gilles Deleuze's dramaturgy. It explains that Deleuze was interested in Husserl and in phenomenology because it was essential for Deleuze to maintain a detached relationship with a friend/enemy capable of keeping him in suspense up to the end. The chapter argues that Deleuze was not a simple follower of Husserl, but that he took from the latter a certain orientation of thought which gives a new twist to the major themes of Cartesian Meditations.
RICHARD KEARNEY and KASCHA SEMONOVITCH
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823234615
- eISBN:
- 9780823240722
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823234615.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
What exactly do we mean by “Stranger”? The Stranger, as we understand it, is not identical with the “Other” or with the “Foreigner.” Metaphorically, we can see “thresholds” defining the edges of ...
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What exactly do we mean by “Stranger”? The Stranger, as we understand it, is not identical with the “Other” or with the “Foreigner.” Metaphorically, we can see “thresholds” defining the edges of human being in many ways: for example, you find a threshold at the limits of your physical body, a threshold of pain, of pleasure, a threshold at the limits of one culture and another, one political group and another. At such thresholds of experience, we stand in an event: an opening onto hospitality. Phenomenology has a particular place in the history of philosophy as a practice of perceiving and attending to the strange in ordinary experience. In dealing with the Stranger, this book concentrates on the phenomenological tradition inaugurated by Edmund Husserl at the outset of the twentieth century and extending through Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty to the hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur, the deconstruction of Jacques Derrida, and the psycho-semiotics of Julia Kristeva.Less
What exactly do we mean by “Stranger”? The Stranger, as we understand it, is not identical with the “Other” or with the “Foreigner.” Metaphorically, we can see “thresholds” defining the edges of human being in many ways: for example, you find a threshold at the limits of your physical body, a threshold of pain, of pleasure, a threshold at the limits of one culture and another, one political group and another. At such thresholds of experience, we stand in an event: an opening onto hospitality. Phenomenology has a particular place in the history of philosophy as a practice of perceiving and attending to the strange in ordinary experience. In dealing with the Stranger, this book concentrates on the phenomenological tradition inaugurated by Edmund Husserl at the outset of the twentieth century and extending through Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty to the hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur, the deconstruction of Jacques Derrida, and the psycho-semiotics of Julia Kristeva.
Dermot Moran
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780823265886
- eISBN:
- 9780823266951
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823265886.003.0013
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
This chapter explains how Merleau-Ponty reinterprets the tradition of “double sensation” he inherited from Edmund Husserl. While Husserl claims double sensation is characteristic only of touch, ...
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This chapter explains how Merleau-Ponty reinterprets the tradition of “double sensation” he inherited from Edmund Husserl. While Husserl claims double sensation is characteristic only of touch, Merleau-Ponty develops this notion as applying to all the senses, and indeed the reflexivity of thought itself. The notion of chaism and intertwining in this work points toward Merleau-Ponty’s late work on the flesh (la chair).Less
This chapter explains how Merleau-Ponty reinterprets the tradition of “double sensation” he inherited from Edmund Husserl. While Husserl claims double sensation is characteristic only of touch, Merleau-Ponty develops this notion as applying to all the senses, and indeed the reflexivity of thought itself. The notion of chaism and intertwining in this work points toward Merleau-Ponty’s late work on the flesh (la chair).
David Lewin
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195182088
- eISBN:
- 9780199850594
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195182088.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition
The overtly phenomenological study of music in Edmund Husserl's sense begins with the man himself, who made central to his theories of perception a famous analysis for perceiving a sustained tone. ...
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The overtly phenomenological study of music in Edmund Husserl's sense begins with the man himself, who made central to his theories of perception a famous analysis for perceiving a sustained tone. That analysis is highlighted by Izchak Miller in a recent philosophical commentary. Miller also devotes much attention to “Husserl's Account of Perceiving a Melody.” This discussion, which includes an account of listening to the opening theme from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, does not itself invoke sophisticated music-theoretical apparatus. Thomas Clifton also explored the phenomenology of music theory. It is not clear what a “theory of music” might be, or even a “theory of modern Western art-music,” but it so far includes a theory of musical perception and people's “musical behavior,” a category that includes competent listening to be sure, but also competent production and performance.Less
The overtly phenomenological study of music in Edmund Husserl's sense begins with the man himself, who made central to his theories of perception a famous analysis for perceiving a sustained tone. That analysis is highlighted by Izchak Miller in a recent philosophical commentary. Miller also devotes much attention to “Husserl's Account of Perceiving a Melody.” This discussion, which includes an account of listening to the opening theme from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, does not itself invoke sophisticated music-theoretical apparatus. Thomas Clifton also explored the phenomenology of music theory. It is not clear what a “theory of music” might be, or even a “theory of modern Western art-music,” but it so far includes a theory of musical perception and people's “musical behavior,” a category that includes competent listening to be sure, but also competent production and performance.
Wyatt Prunty
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195057867
- eISBN:
- 9780199855124
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195057867.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the difference between contemporary and modern poetry. It then turns to Robert Lowell, arguing that because of his early success as a young ...
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This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the difference between contemporary and modern poetry. It then turns to Robert Lowell, arguing that because of his early success as a young modernist and later success with poetry that diverged from modernist norms, his career is representative of a substantial segment of a younger generation of poets who distanced themselves from the tenets of their modernist elders. It compares the systematic minimalism of Edmund Husserl’s method in his Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology with the factualism of Lowell’s method, which began with the second version of “The Mills of the Kavanaughs”. The chapter also considers the work of Heidegger.Less
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the difference between contemporary and modern poetry. It then turns to Robert Lowell, arguing that because of his early success as a young modernist and later success with poetry that diverged from modernist norms, his career is representative of a substantial segment of a younger generation of poets who distanced themselves from the tenets of their modernist elders. It compares the systematic minimalism of Edmund Husserl’s method in his Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology with the factualism of Lowell’s method, which began with the second version of “The Mills of the Kavanaughs”. The chapter also considers the work of Heidegger.
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804755214
- eISBN:
- 9780804769976
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804755214.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter examines Jacques Derrida's early engagement with historicism and relativism. It analyzes his 1963 “Introduction” to Edmund Husserl's “The Origin of Geometry” and his 1971 essay “The ...
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This chapter examines Jacques Derrida's early engagement with historicism and relativism. It analyzes his 1963 “Introduction” to Edmund Husserl's “The Origin of Geometry” and his 1971 essay “The Supplement of Copula.” The chapter suggests that Derrida followed Husserl in seeking to understand how recognizing the linguistic specificity of philosophical concepts is not tantamount to a linguistic relativism. It considers how Derrida's confrontation with Emmanuel Levinas' evocation of a Judaic “other” of the philosophical tradition allowed him to extend his reflections on the exemplarity of the Greek and the European in philosophy.Less
This chapter examines Jacques Derrida's early engagement with historicism and relativism. It analyzes his 1963 “Introduction” to Edmund Husserl's “The Origin of Geometry” and his 1971 essay “The Supplement of Copula.” The chapter suggests that Derrida followed Husserl in seeking to understand how recognizing the linguistic specificity of philosophical concepts is not tantamount to a linguistic relativism. It considers how Derrida's confrontation with Emmanuel Levinas' evocation of a Judaic “other” of the philosophical tradition allowed him to extend his reflections on the exemplarity of the Greek and the European in philosophy.
Richard Kearney
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780823265886
- eISBN:
- 9780823266951
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823265886.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
This chapter begins by clarifying the idea of carnal hermeneutics as such, identifying historical anticipations and precedents, and laying out some directions in which future scholarship on the ...
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This chapter begins by clarifying the idea of carnal hermeneutics as such, identifying historical anticipations and precedents, and laying out some directions in which future scholarship on the subject might proceed. It then proceeds to chart a detailed hermeneutic genealogy of touch through Aristotle’s account of flesh (sarx) as medium (metaxu), to the more contemporary phenomenological and hermeneutic accounts of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Ricoeur. In doing so, it expands the traditional notion that hermeneutics is concerned with intellectual understanding to include a hermeneutics of bodily and sensory orientation.Less
This chapter begins by clarifying the idea of carnal hermeneutics as such, identifying historical anticipations and precedents, and laying out some directions in which future scholarship on the subject might proceed. It then proceeds to chart a detailed hermeneutic genealogy of touch through Aristotle’s account of flesh (sarx) as medium (metaxu), to the more contemporary phenomenological and hermeneutic accounts of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Ricoeur. In doing so, it expands the traditional notion that hermeneutics is concerned with intellectual understanding to include a hermeneutics of bodily and sensory orientation.
Hans Kelsen
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198252177
- eISBN:
- 9780191681363
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198252177.003.0052
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law
What Jorgensen calls the ‘indicative factor’ contained in a command, Edmund Husserl calls the ‘theoretical content’ of a norm. He says of every practical discipline that ‘its rules [i.e. norms] must ...
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What Jorgensen calls the ‘indicative factor’ contained in a command, Edmund Husserl calls the ‘theoretical content’ of a norm. He says of every practical discipline that ‘its rules [i.e. norms] must have a theoretical content separable from the notion of normativity (of the “shall” or “should”).’ The norm ‘An A should be B’ is ‘identical’ with, or ‘at least’ equivalent to, the sentence ‘Only an A which is a B is a good A’. He calls this a purely ‘theoretical’ sentence and claims that the norm ‘implies’ this theoretical sentence. Thus, according to Husserl, the ‘normative’ sentence ‘An A should be B’ expresses ‘normativity’; in other words, this sollen-sentence is a norm.Less
What Jorgensen calls the ‘indicative factor’ contained in a command, Edmund Husserl calls the ‘theoretical content’ of a norm. He says of every practical discipline that ‘its rules [i.e. norms] must have a theoretical content separable from the notion of normativity (of the “shall” or “should”).’ The norm ‘An A should be B’ is ‘identical’ with, or ‘at least’ equivalent to, the sentence ‘Only an A which is a B is a good A’. He calls this a purely ‘theoretical’ sentence and claims that the norm ‘implies’ this theoretical sentence. Thus, according to Husserl, the ‘normative’ sentence ‘An A should be B’ expresses ‘normativity’; in other words, this sollen-sentence is a norm.
Rose Ellen Dunn
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823230815
- eISBN:
- 9780823235087
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823230815.003.0016
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
The chapter discusses the theological possibilities present in the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. These possibilities are then interwoven with the ...
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The chapter discusses the theological possibilities present in the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. These possibilities are then interwoven with the work of Luce Irigaray, Jean-Luc Marion, and Jacques Derrida. With this theoretical framework in place, this chapter explores an interpretation of the Annunciation as an event of Gelassenheit which springs from a mutual gift of love. This suggests that the text of the Annunciation is infused with possibility. Filled with grace, Mary is invited by the divine into possibility; responding in grace, she in turn invites the divine into possibility. Grace, springing from the desire of the divine as well as the responsive desire of Mary, draws both Mary and the divine into the very possibility that it creates—the possibility for an intermingling of the self and the divine in a mystical union of love. Transgressing the limits of language, this possibility slips into an apophatic moment of Gelassenheit, a mutual “letting-be” or releasement of both Mary and the divine, which then overflows into the song of the Magnificat.Less
The chapter discusses the theological possibilities present in the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. These possibilities are then interwoven with the work of Luce Irigaray, Jean-Luc Marion, and Jacques Derrida. With this theoretical framework in place, this chapter explores an interpretation of the Annunciation as an event of Gelassenheit which springs from a mutual gift of love. This suggests that the text of the Annunciation is infused with possibility. Filled with grace, Mary is invited by the divine into possibility; responding in grace, she in turn invites the divine into possibility. Grace, springing from the desire of the divine as well as the responsive desire of Mary, draws both Mary and the divine into the very possibility that it creates—the possibility for an intermingling of the self and the divine in a mystical union of love. Transgressing the limits of language, this possibility slips into an apophatic moment of Gelassenheit, a mutual “letting-be” or releasement of both Mary and the divine, which then overflows into the song of the Magnificat.
David Clarke
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- July 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198804352
- eISBN:
- 9780191842672
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198804352.003.0009
- Subject:
- Psychology, Music Psychology, Developmental Psychology
This chapter explores the intersection of music and phenomenology as potentially fertile ground for the study of consciousness. Taking the philosophy of Edmund Husserl as a touchstone, and the Violin ...
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This chapter explores the intersection of music and phenomenology as potentially fertile ground for the study of consciousness. Taking the philosophy of Edmund Husserl as a touchstone, and the Violin Concerto, Op. 47 of Jean Sibelius as a case study, the chapter considers how phenomenological concepts such as epoché, noesis, eidos, and the transcendental subject all find resonances within a formal analysis of this musical work. The chapter also juxtaposes Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology and his critique of the ‘natural attitude’ against Daniel Dennett’s physicalist account of consciousness and Wilfrid Sellars’ concept of the ‘scientific image’. In negotiating a pathway between these positions, the chapter considers whether music—and its determination of an autonomous aesthetic sphere—may offer a productive alternative perspective to the often competing claims of philosophy and science in our understanding of consciousness.Less
This chapter explores the intersection of music and phenomenology as potentially fertile ground for the study of consciousness. Taking the philosophy of Edmund Husserl as a touchstone, and the Violin Concerto, Op. 47 of Jean Sibelius as a case study, the chapter considers how phenomenological concepts such as epoché, noesis, eidos, and the transcendental subject all find resonances within a formal analysis of this musical work. The chapter also juxtaposes Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology and his critique of the ‘natural attitude’ against Daniel Dennett’s physicalist account of consciousness and Wilfrid Sellars’ concept of the ‘scientific image’. In negotiating a pathway between these positions, the chapter considers whether music—and its determination of an autonomous aesthetic sphere—may offer a productive alternative perspective to the often competing claims of philosophy and science in our understanding of consciousness.
Kevin Attell
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823262045
- eISBN:
- 9780823266319
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823262045.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Chapter Two examines Agamben's work from 1978's Infancy and History to 1982's Language and Death. This period of work sees the first programmatic formulation of Agamben's critique of the western ...
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Chapter Two examines Agamben's work from 1978's Infancy and History to 1982's Language and Death. This period of work sees the first programmatic formulation of Agamben's critique of the western metaphysical tradition. As is most fully explicated in Language and Death, Agamben views the fundamental structure of western philosophical thought to be that of negativity, the presupposition of a negative and unappropriable other to every positivity. In this diagnosis, Agamben's thesis meets with but runs precisely counter to Derrida's view that western thought is a logocentric metaphysics of presence. For both thinkers, the negative structure of metaphysics renders immediacy and presence impossible, but when faced with this aporetic structure they adopt radically differing strategies. For Derrida, the deconstruction of the metaphysical dream of presence entails the affirmation of difference and deferral, in a word, différance. For Agamben, the task of thought is instead to ask, “how can an impasse be turned into an exit?” After elucidating the dialogue between Agamben's texts and Derridean works such as the Introduction to Husserl's Origin of Geometry and Speech and Phenomena, the chapter shows how Agamben turns to the concept of infancy as a possible “exit” from the aporetic logic of metaphysical semiology.Less
Chapter Two examines Agamben's work from 1978's Infancy and History to 1982's Language and Death. This period of work sees the first programmatic formulation of Agamben's critique of the western metaphysical tradition. As is most fully explicated in Language and Death, Agamben views the fundamental structure of western philosophical thought to be that of negativity, the presupposition of a negative and unappropriable other to every positivity. In this diagnosis, Agamben's thesis meets with but runs precisely counter to Derrida's view that western thought is a logocentric metaphysics of presence. For both thinkers, the negative structure of metaphysics renders immediacy and presence impossible, but when faced with this aporetic structure they adopt radically differing strategies. For Derrida, the deconstruction of the metaphysical dream of presence entails the affirmation of difference and deferral, in a word, différance. For Agamben, the task of thought is instead to ask, “how can an impasse be turned into an exit?” After elucidating the dialogue between Agamben's texts and Derridean works such as the Introduction to Husserl's Origin of Geometry and Speech and Phenomena, the chapter shows how Agamben turns to the concept of infancy as a possible “exit” from the aporetic logic of metaphysical semiology.
