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_Incomprehensible Certainty: Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image_
_Incomprehensible Certainty: Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image_2022 •
Incomprehensible Certainty presents a sustained reflection on the nature of images and the phenomenology of visual experience. Taking the “image” (eikōn) as the essential medium of art and literature and as foundational for the intuitive ways in which we make contact with our “lifeworld,” Thomas Pfau draws in equal measure on Platonic metaphysics and modern phenomenology to advance a series of interlocking claims. First, Pfau shows that, beginning with Plato’s later dialogues, being and appearance came to be understood as ontologically distinct from (but no longer opposed to) one another. Second, in contrast to the idol that is typically gazed at and visually consumed as an object of desire, this study positions the image (eikōn) as a medium whose intrinsic abundance and excess reveal to us its metaphysical function, namely, as the visible analogue of an invisible, numinous reality. Finally, the interpretations unfolded in this book (from Plato, Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius, John Damascene via Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonaventure, Julian of Norwich, and Nicholas of Cusa to modern writers and artists such as Goethe, Ruskin, Turner, Hopkins, C zanne, and Rilke) affirm the essential complementarity of image and word, visual intuition and hermeneutic practice, in theology, philosophy, and literature. Like Pfau’s previous book, Minding the Modern, Incomprehensible Certainty is a major work. With over fifty illustrations, the book will interest students and scholars of philosophy, theology, literature, and art history.
Studia UBB. Philosophia
Critical Phenomenology?2021 •
As a critique of objectification, phenomenological methodology offers resources for a disruption of sedimented or instituted meanings and practices that are hindering the access to a shared life-world, where self-exposure, hesitation, and vulnerability shape our human connections and the practice of our freedom. Relying on the methodological directions sketched in this special issue, we argue in favor of a phenomenological approach to a materialist social theory. For the genetic perspective we indicate, normative imperatives – even if they are limited to a specific social context – tend to cover over living processes of collective emancipation, in the same way in which for Husserl theoretical substructions obscure the realm of the life-world, veiling its intuitive evidence and disorienting the critical work of clarification. If this theoretical tendency toward abstraction is rooted in the actual conditions of the production and reproduction of the social world – a process closely tied to what some have called “real abstraction” – a materially-oriented phenomenology can provide an indispensable set of resources for critical theory, allowing for an in-depth investigation of the lived experience of social forms such as reified individuality and abstract labor.
"ABSTRACT: This study assumes the subject's pursuit of meaning is generally incapacitating and should be suspended. It aims to demonstrate how such a suspension is theoretically accomplished by utilizing Lacan's formulae of sexuation integrated with his work in discourse theory and topology. Part I places this study into context by examining scholarship from the established fields of hermeneutics, phenomenology, (post)structuralism, aesthetic theory and psychoanalysis in order to extract out their respective theory of meaning. These theories reveal that an historical struggle with meaning has been underway since the Reformation and reaches near crisis proportions in the 20th century. On the one hand this crisis is mollified by the rise of Heideggerian-Gadamerian hermeneutical phenomenology which questions traditional epistemological approaches to the text using a new ontological conceptualization of meaning and a conscious rejection of methodology. On the other hand this crisis is exacerbated when the ubiquitous nature of meaning is itself challenged by (post)structuralism's discovery of the signifier which inscribes a limit to meaning, and by the domains of sense and nonsense newly opened up by aesthetic theory. These historical developments culminate in the field of psychoanalysis which most consequentially delimits a cause of meaning said to be closely linked to the core of subjectivity. Part II extends these findings by rigorously constructing out of the Lacanian sexuated formulae a decidedly non-hermeneutical phenomenological approach useful in demonstrating the sexual nature of meaning. Explicated in their static state by way of an account of their original derivation from the Aristotelian logical square, it is argued that these four formulae are relevant to basic concerns of textual theory inclusive of the hermeneutical circle of meaning. These formulae are then set into motion by integrating them with Lacan's four discourses to demonstrate the breakdown of meaning. Finally, the cuts and sutures of two-dimensional space that is topology as set down in L'étourdit are performed to confirm how the very field of meaning is ultimately suspended from a nonsensical singular point known in Lacanian psychoanalysis as objet a. The contention is that by occupying this point the subject frees himself from the debilitating grip of meaning."
Studia Phaenomenologica
Introduction: On Conflict and Violence2019 •
The premise of the present issue of Studia Phænomenologica is that phenomenology, by virtue of its being anchored in the concrete experience of subjectivity, of its specific conceptual endeavour and descriptive approach, has a unique theoretical potential not only to understand how the various aspects of violence are articulated with fundamental existential structures, but also to bring to light the intertwined meanings of the phenomenon of violence. In particular, the present issue is engaged in the task of capturing the complexity of the experience of violence by criss-crossing phenomenological perspectives on intersubjectivity (e.g., the problem of the hostile other, understood as an adversarial alterity), affectivity (e.g., the emergence of irritation, anger, wrath, and rage as a condition for conflict), and embodiment (e.g., the problem of vulnerability and of the infliction of pain intended by those involved in the factical situation of violence, having murder, the ultimate violence, as a limit). Another major reflection at stake is to consider how these structures of the phenomenon of violence are modalized according to the essential possibilities of spatiality and temporality, either by coming to the fore, or by fading, or by changing their configuration. In this case, it is only the description of the variations of the phenomenon of violence as a whole that can indeed reveal the modifications of its fundamental structures.
Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy
After Husserl: Phenomenological Foundations of Mathematics2019 •
Claire Ortiz Hill, Iulian Apostolescu, Masumi Nagasaka, Irene Breuer, Mirja H Hartimo, Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock, Ionuț Bârliba, Hans Sluga
Meta. Vol. XI, No. 2 / December 2019: After Husserl: Phenomenological Foundations of Mathematics Guest Editor: Iulian Apostolescu
De Gruyter
Levinas and Literature: New Directions2021 •
The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas’s wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy, and religion. This volume gathers an international list of experts to examine new questions raised by Levinas’s deep and creative experiment in thinking at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and religion. Chapters address the role and significance of poetry, narrative, and metaphor in accessing the ethical sense of ordinary life; Levinas's critical engagement with authors such as Leon Bloy, Paul Celan, Vassily Grossman, Marcel Proust, and Maurice Blanchot; analyses of Levinas’s draft novels Eros ou Triple opulence and La Dame de chez Wepler; and the application of Levinas's thought in reading contemporary authors such as Ian McEwen and Cormac McCarthy. Contributors include Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Kevin Hart, Eric Hoppenot, Vivian Liska, Jean-Luc Nancy and François-David Sebbah, among others.
Through a Glass Darkly
Sacramental Imagination: Eucharists of the Ordinary Universe in the Works of Joyce, Proust, and Woolf2010 •
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University of Kurdistan
Sedimented Expressions and Indirect Language in John Berger's A Painter of Our TimeStudia UBB. Philosophia
Critical Phenomenology and Phenomenological Critique2021 •
Doctoral thesis_NTNU
Towards an Embodied Hermeneutics: Gadamer, Merleau-Ponty, and Nondirective Meditation2017 •
Slavica Helsingiensia
Gustav Shpet's Theory of the Inner Form of the Word: A Phenomenological Study (doctoral disseration)2021 •
SPECIAL ISSUE: WORLDBUILDING AND THE ASIAN IMAGINATION
Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and Worldbuilding in Murasaki's The Tale of Genji and Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings2021 •
Transversal Subjects: From Montaigne to Deleuze after Derrida, Bryan Reynolds, ed
Shakespearean excursion ii: what's in a name?2009 •
Journal of Speculative Philospohy
Art as a Form of Negative Dialectics: 'Theory' in Adorno's 'Aesthetic Theory'1997 •
ACTIO NOVA: Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada
At the Crossroads of Memory and Imagination: a Poetic Image of a Window at Night in Samuel Beckett’s "A Piece of MonologueMDiv dissertation (unpublished)
Of poetics and possibility: Richard Kearney's "Re-imagining God"2011 •
Columbia University Press
The Life of Imagination: Revealing and Making the World2018 •
LANGUAGE AND SEMIOTIC STUDIES Vol. 7, No. 3
"The Semiotics of Axiology and Communicology", LANGUAGE AND SEMIOTIC STUDIES, Vol. 7, no. 3 (2021), Special Issue Editor: Richard L. Lanigan (FULL TEXT — ALL ARTICLES)2021 •
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Schriften zur Phänomenologie und Anthropologie
Phenomenology of Phantasy and Emotion (Breyer, Cavallaro, Sandoval, eds.)