THE REINCARNATING MIND, OR THE ONTOPOIETIC

OUTBURST IN CREATIVE VIRTUALITIES

ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA

THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH

VOLUME LUI

Editor-in-Chiej:

ANNA- TERESA TYMIENIECKA

The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning

Belmont, Massachusetts

For sequel volumes see the end of this volume.

THE REINCARNATING MIND, OR THE ONTOPOIETIC

OUTBURST IN CREATIVE VIRTUALITIES:

H armonisations and Attunement in Cognition, the Fine Arts, Literature

Phenomenology of Life and the Human Creative Condition (Book II)

Edited by

ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA

The World Phenomenology Institute

PubJished 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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Phenomenology of 11fe and the hUlan creative condltlon I edlted by Anna-Teresa TYllenlecka.

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2. The relncarnatlng Ilnd, or, The ontopoletlc outburst In creative vlrtualltles -- bk. 3. Ontopoletlc expanslon In hUlan self -Interpretatlon-In-exlstence.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

THE THEME

PART ONE

BRINGING FORTH SOME BASIC POINTS OF

HUMAN CREATIVITY

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J. J. VENTER / Road-signs to "Creativity" 3 PATRICIA TRUTTY -COOHILL / How I Went up to Image

Phenomenology and Came down Entangled . . . 29 SLAWOMIR MAG ALA / Art as Moral Gamble: Phenomeno-

logical Aspects of Creative Responsibility 35 NANCY CAMPI DE CASTRO / The Creative Virtuality of

Negritude in Brazilian Literature 49 ALEXANDER PIGALEV / Being and the Creative Power of

Language (the Late Heidegger) 59

PART TWO

EXPERIENCE, JUDGEMENT, IMAGINATION, EMOTION

M. C. DILLON / Beyond Semiological Reductionism: Transcen-dental Philosophy and Transcendence 75

CALVIN O. SCHRAG / From Experience to Judgment in the Aftermath of Postmodem Critique 89

RAMSEY ERIC RAMSEY / Transversal Rationality, Rhetoric, and the Imagination: Probability and Contingency in Experi-ence and Judgment 97

WILLIS SALOMON / Poetry and Emotion: Psychoanalysis and the Ontology of Lyric 109

MICHELLE FACOS / Landscape and Alienation in the Late Nineteenth Century 123

ALIN CRIS TIAN / The Unbearable Lightness of Sacrifice 131

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PART THREE

INFUSION OF THE AESTHETIC SENSE INTO

HUMAN EXPERIENCE

LA WRENCE KIMMEL / Telling Stories 143 ALBERTO CARRILLO CANAN / Considering Die and Death:

Heidegger's Reinterpretation ofHusserl's Concept of Truth as the Concept of "Care" 155

SAID TAWFIK / The Phenomenological Motives of Heidegger's and Gadamer's Hermeneutics of the Literary Text 181

DANUT A ULICKA / Language and Experience: On the Subject and Method of Roman Ingarden's Philosophy of Literature 209

GARY McNEELY / A Hermeneutic Inquiry into Heidegger's Gelassenheit: Thought through Beckett's Waiting for Godot 213

WOLFGANG WITTKOWSKI / Can Women Reign? Schiller's Maria Stuart and the Nemesis 233

PART FOUR

FINE ARTS AND THE CONVEYING OF

THE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE

MIHAl PASTRAGUS / Phenomenological Aesthetics and the Contemporary Arts 251

YNHUI PARK / The Artistic, the Aesthetic and the Function of Art: What Is an Artwork Supposed to Be Appreciated For? 271

ANDREW JAY SVEDLOW / Reveries on Aesthetics 287 ROBYN GANGI / Musical and Visual Encounters: An Inves-

tigation of the Aesthetic Experience

PART FIVE

THE EDUCATION OF THE EYE AND

THE EXPERIENCE OF ART

ANDREA BOLLAND / The Education of the Eye and the

293

Experience of Art in Renaissance Italy 325 JORELLA ANDREWS / Cutting the Line: The Late Works

of Matisse Discussed from a Merleau-Pontean Perspective 335

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JILL MILLER / The Advent of the Modern Child and Student: Franfois Bonvin's Seated Boy with a Portfolio 345

ELIZABETH K. MENON / Fashion, Commercial Culture and the Femme Fatale: Development of a Feminine I con in the French Popular Press 363

INDEX OF NAMES 383

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

As this volume goes to press we have to remember all who have been instrumental in its origination and preparation. We owe thanks to those who made our Guadalajara Second World Phenomenology Congress, the work of which was destined here, possible. First of all we thank Dr. Santiago Mendez Bravo, Rector and Dr. Cesario Hernandez Hernandez, Vice-Rector of the Universidad del Valle de Atemajac -and Dr. Xavier Rodriguez, Chairman of the Philosophy Department -in Guadalajara for having received the Congress with warm hospitality. We also thank Dr. Sergio X. Vazquez and Dr. Miguel J arquin Marin who extended the hospitality of the Instituto de Terapia Gestalt Region Occidente (INTEGRO) and led the Organization Committee which prepared the ideal conditions for the conference. Their contributions to the program in featuring workshops in the particular methods of therapy practiced at the INTEGRO have enriched it with stimulating philosophical ideas. We thank them too for opening the INTEGRO doors for the founding session of the newest affiliated society of the Institute, the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Fenomenoiogia, of which Dr. Jorge Garcia Gomez of Long Island University is the first Secretary General.

Dr. Tomasz Panz, the General Secretary of our Institute did a won­derful job in promptly and precisely - as in his laboratory work -handling all matters concerning the organization of the program and the correspondence with participants, while Assistant Editor Robert J. Wise, Jr., contributed to the smooth running of the Congress by his gracious reception and registration of the participants, a reprise of his role at the First Congress of Phenomenology at Santiago de Compostela. He was aided in this by our Administrative Assistant, Louis T. Houthakker, who handles our day-to-day membership concerns.

The wonderfully generous gesture on the part of our Mexican hosts at INTEGRO in arranging housing for numerous foreign participants with their colleagues merits not only thanks but first of all admiration for the warm hearts of our Mexican hosts, which made this Congress an unforgettable experience of camaraderie and friendship under the banner of the phenomenology of life.

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In this volume, which pursues further inquiries focused upon the "creative virtualities" of the Human Condition and the great lines of their actualization in bringing forth the specifically human significance of life, there are two special sections on the phenomenology of life in the fine arts and in aesthetics. These are the fruits of sessions organized by Professor Patricia Trutty-Coohill, and we owe her our warmest thanks for her contribution.

We are indebted to Mr. Robert Wise, Miss Isabelle Houthakker and Mr. Mitchell Seagrave for the copy-editing and proofreading of this volume. Special thanks are due to Mr. Wise, who takes considerable pains to smooth the numerous translations into idiomatic English.

Of course, the authors who made this book possible cannot be over­looked. The book is their own work!

A-T. T.

THE THEME

PHENOMENOLOGY WORLDWIDE

The Reincarnated Mind or The Ontopoietic Outburst

in Creative Virtualities: Harmonisation and Attunement in

Cognition, the Fine Arts, Literature, Aesthetics

Phenomenology which has oscillated between pure consciousness and at the other extreme, the lived body, has appeared in the last decades to be so rarefied in its approaches and ideas, that one would believe it to be evaporating altogether, ceding its place to its Avatars. Yet the present collection, one of four books presenting the work of the Second World Congress of Phenomenology belies such an assumption. On the contrary, in this collection, as in the other three books, we witness a new worldwide philosophical community emerging from the debris of the classical phenomenological movement - one which vibrates with new ideas and intuitions.

This strong manifestation of the ideas taking shape and already pre­sented in several of our books in their germinal stage for more than a decade now, proceeds from a novel, a strikingly novel, philosophical inception: the creative virtualities by which humans differentiate between the human universe and the world humans share with animals and plants.

The result here is a new mind, which we want to present here in its various aspects. This mind is new, not because it has changed into the "emperor's new clothes" and thus stands denuded, stripped to its bare essentials, as with some of the new mind conceptions that reduce it to the organic level, but because in its sense that all is disclosed when we gain access to the genetic source it forms the human creative forge.

Here is the new pivot that phenomenology of life has established -the creative act of the human being which operates the crystallisation of the Human Creative Condition in innumerable rays of novel ratio­nalities, novel with respect to the vital rationalities of life, and within which the Human Condition emerges in its pristine state. Now we can differentiate adequately the main functions of the human processing of life's significances as it transforms them imaginatively and projects new ones, unprecedented among long-reigning rationalities of bios. Knowledge, mind, artistic activity, are by no means new fields for philo­sophical reflection. What we take to be a striking advance beyond hitherto

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propounded philosophical doctrines of the mind, is our not giving any priority to the intentional conceptualising work of the mind, but deriving from that the modalities of the rest of the mind's activity. On the contrary, this strikes at the Gordian knot of all philosophical fallacies with respect to the differentiation of human faculties and their respective sources and engines, by bringing forth the Human Creative Condition with its creative virtualities as the fulcrum of all which is specifically human -of humanness as such. Thus we may assign to the human functioning its proper source within the creative orchestration of all human forces and virtualities of natural bios, animality, and the bringing to recogni­tion of each of them in its own ri'ght.

I have written at length about the nature of the Human Creative Condition and the creativity of the human being as such (see my Logos and Life). In this collection, originally presented at the world congress, we gather studies which evidence the various functions stemming from and orchestrated by the work of the creative virtualities of the human being as they are crystallised in various specifically human functions. It is in the service of the specifically human ontopoietic unfolding, or interpretation-in-existence, human creativity as such, that the human mind manifests itself. Operative in orchestrating these functions, the cre­ativity is at its peak in artistic endeavors which are as Kant would say the exemplary works of the human being. I have often declared that the aesthetic sense as a specifically creative virtuality comes first in estab­lishing the creative orchestration of human functioning, that is specifically the human mind as such. Therefore, aesthetic and artistic creativity comes first and last in this collection. In between we situate the other basic constituents of the creative orchestration of human functioning, such as emotion, imagination, experience as such, judgement, infusion of aesthetic states of mind, language as instrument of aesthetic communi­cation, etc.

Aesthetics at its highest level, as the life of the human spirit in the fine arts, and its cultivation round off a collection rich in insights and reflections.

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propounded philosophical doctrines of the mind, is our not giving any priority to the intentional conceptualising work of the mind, but deriving from that the modalities of the rest of the mind's activity. On the contrary, this strikes at the Gordian knot of all philosophical fallacies with respect to the differentiation of human faculties and their respective sources and engines, by bringing forth the Human Creative Condition with its creative virtualities as the fulcrum of all which is specifically human -of humanness as such. Thus we may assign to the human functioning its proper source within the creative orchestration of all human forces and virtualities of natural bios, animality, and the bringing to recogni­tion of each of them in its own ri'ght.

I have written at length about the nature of the Human Creative Condition and the creativity of the human being as such (see my Logos and Life). In this collection, originally presented at the world congress, we gather studies which evidence the various functions stemming from and orchestrated by the work of the creative virtualities of the human being as they are crystallised in various specifically human functions. It is in the service of the specifically human ontopoietic unfolding, or interpretation-in-existence, human creativity as such, that the human mind manifests itself. Operative in orchestrating these functions, the cre­ativity is at its peak in artistic endeavors which are as Kant would say the exemplary works of the human being. I have often declared that the aesthetic sense as a specifically creative virtuality comes first in estab­lishing the creative orchestration of human functioning, that is specifically the human mind as such. Therefore, aesthetic and artistic creativity comes first and last in this collection. In between we situate the other basic constituents of the creative orchestration of human functioning, such as emotion, imagination, experience as such, judgement, infusion of aesthetic states of mind, language as instrument of aesthetic communi­cation, etc.

Aesthetics at its highest level, as the life of the human spirit in the fine arts, and its cultivation round off a collection rich in insights and reflections.

A-T. T.