This paper is concerned with the phenomenon of knowledge and its institutionalization in the context of society and state. The analysis deals with two paradigms of knowledge, known in history of ...philosophy as the ancient and the modern one. On this basis, the institutionalization of knowledge is questioned as an inherent part of the conceptualization of knowledge, but at the same time, as the problem of alienation of the concept from the human frame of understanding it. Consequently, the reflection of the need for a new approach to the problem emerged and it is actually formulated in this work as the Humanological Management approach. This philosophical frame enables the Management of the (institutionalization of) knowledge on the socio-humanistic basis. In this context, the concept of knowledge as the most important human resource becomes theoretical, as well as practical framework of the Science for humans.
The paper discusses the complex of ideas presented in the newest postmodernist book „Dé-coïncidence. D’où viennent l’art et l’existence?“ (“Non-coincidence. Where do art and existence come from?”) by ...an influential French sinologist and representative of philosophical comparativism François Jullien. In the paper, attention is paid , on the one hand, to the analysis of contemplated awareness, freedom, living differently, and, on the other, common, banal yet comforting everyday slavelike dependence on norms and unaware existence, as well as other fundamental ideas and categories developed by Jullien. The author of this paper demonstrates that F. Jullien, applying a typical poststructuralists deconstruction principle, gives particular meaning to the analysis of the language and the text. In so doing, he emphasizes that both biblical myths and seemingly common and unquestionable Western cultural truths can be viewed in a different light and be interpreted, not by applying well-established (usually unquestionable) models, but, instead, by analyzing the deepest semantic meanings of the language and the text, without which the understanding of reality is incomplete, if not wrong. At the end of the paper, a brief overview of F. Jullien’s innovative ideas is presented not only to take a new look at truths that have turned into dogmas, but also to, in a sense, shock society and open their eyes to a deeper and more aware form of existence.
This is the last part of the article dedicated to showing the significance of access to theory’s pre-conceptual origin for Heidegger’s thought: for the analysis of the existential structure and ...phenomenological-hermeneutical investigation of Western thought, which at the same time opens a new horizon of being. In this paper we will show that the result of this thinking is the unity of theory and practice. It is discovered equiprimordially with the unity of being and time at the beginning of Greek thought.
Empathy – Interpretation – (Interpreting) Apperception. Attempts to Explain Husserl’s First Steps Towards a Theory of Intersubjectivity. The aim of this paper is to investigate Husserl’s first steps ...towards a theory of intersubjectivity and his early attempts to solve the intricate questions pertaining to the constitution of alter ego. The starting point of this investigation is Husserl’s critical examination of the concept of empathy theorized by Th. Lipps and his contention that empathy cannot be a passive and rather quasi-instinctive activity of the ego, but must be grounded in a kind of analogy between my own body and that of the other. This first attempt to explain in phenomenological terms how an ego can be aware of and perceive other thigs as egos is marred by difficulties that force Husserl to constantly rethink the question of the constitution of the alter ego and propose new ways of conceiving the special kind of apperception that opens up the possibility of perceiving the others as alter egos.
This paper articulates an account of causation as a collection of information-theoretic relationships between patterns instantiated in the causal nexus. I draw on Dennett’s account of real patterns ...to characterize potential causal relata as patterns with specific identification criteria and noise tolerance levels, and actual causal relata as those patterns instantiated at some spatiotemporal location in the rich causal nexus as originally developed by Salmon. I develop a representation framework using phase space to precisely characterize causal relata, including their degree(s) of counterfactual robustness, causal profiles, causal connectivity, and privileged grain size. By doing so, I show how the philosophical notion of causation can be rendered in a format that is amenable for direct application of mathematical techniques from information theory such that the resulting informational measures are causal informational measures. This account provides a metaphysics of causation that supports interventionist semantics and causal modeling and discovery techniques.
This paper analyses the relationship between lack and possibilities of bearing witness in a post-historical context. We wanted to see how discussions about indeterminacy and testimony change the way ...in which we understand possibilities of truth in relation to the confessing subject. The limit of the language of testimony and memory generate experiences of incompleteness and inadequacy which make us negotiate the position of the confessing subject between an impossible historical truth and the non-discursive truth of revelation. We argued that the resistance to representation which drives the language of testimony reflects the improper position of the witness between historicity and existence. There is always an already lost historical event that we have to testify for and that foreshadows possibilities of significance. The witness can only generate discourse from inside a dislocated position which also marks the understanding of revelation.
This paper starts from the fact that the study of narrative in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy is almost exclusively the study of fi ctional narrative. It returns to an earlier debate in which ...Hayden White argued that “historiography is a form of fi ction-making”. Although White’s claims are hyperbolical, the paper argues that he was correct to stress the importance of the claim that fi ction and non-fi ction use “the same techniques and strategies”. A distinction is drawn between properties of narratives that are simply properties of narratives and properties of narratives that play a role in forming readers’ beliefs about the world. Using this distinction, it is shown that it is an important feature of nonfi ctions that they are narratives; it is salutary to recognise non-fi ctions as being more like fi ctions than they are like the events they represent.
Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and one of the most influential contemporary thinkers, died on August 23, 2021 at the age of 81. He graduated in philosophy in 1962 at the University of Paris ...(Sorbonne), and began his academic career as an assistant at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Humanities in Strasbourg (also: Marc Bloch University).
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