Flesh and Body, originally released in French in 1981, is a pioneering study that provides both a close reading of Husserl's phenomenology of relationship between flesh and body as well as Didier ...Franck's own highly original account of flesh. Husserl's work on the body influenced many phenomenologists, including Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, Henry, and Levinas, to name just a few. But his work was often misunderstood. Franck thus guides the reader carefully through Husserl's multi-layered and complex observations about the notions of on the flesh and the body. Franck shows that the flesh is never entirely one's own, instead it is always situated in relation to a prior alterity, principally the other ego. This book is thus a vital contribution to current debates over the themes of embodiment, temporality and intersubjectivity.
This dissertation investigates how fiction produces feelings of presence that make characters and us as readers alongside them co-experiencers, creators, and agents of the story world. Instead of a ...hermeneutical access to the text through interpretation, I argue that such presence effects are totalizing and emotional experiences that grant a sense of agency and access to the literary text that is immediate and productive. I show how literary texts use a number of strategies to produce these moments that stand outside of narrative sequence and that crucially affect how and why we read literary texts.In the case of Liberating Presence, for instance, the strategy consists in producing a sense of overwhelming attraction that suspends caution and critical distance in characters and readers, while also confronting them with the necessity to react to the situation at hand.Building on works by Goethe, Keller, Hesse, Balzac, de Staël, Proust, Mann, Kafka, Brecht, Erpenbeck, Schlingensief, and Sargnagel, the chapters of this dissertation distinguish three main modes of presence: Ordering, Paralyzing, and Liberating Presence. The following questions have guided the analysis: How does literature produce this presence that confronts experiencers with a sudden and pressing sense of meaningfulness? What triggers these moments and what are the effects for individual as well as collective experiencers? How do presence encounters in literary texts ultimately affect how we perceive and interact with the world and others?In Production of Presence (2004), Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht famously defines presence in terms of intensity and feeling physically connected to the world that complements our interpretation-based understanding of the world. With Gumbrecht’s dialectic model as an important pillar, this study finds that presence is a feeling of immediacy that gives experiencers a sense of meaningfulness and the perception of a world in motion. This can be thrilling to the extent that it blurs the lines between fiction and reality. In different contexts, however, encounters with presence can produce feelings of uneasiness, fear, and even panic, as experiencers become unable to leave the inherently transitional spaces of presence.
Players of an open-world video game are more than merely audience members watching a narrative play out—they actively participate and perform in the world. Drawing from scholars like Edmund Husserl, ...Konstantin Stanislavski, Ossy Wulansari, and PJ Manney, this paper explores principles of performance, phenomenology, and empathy to examine how open-world role-playing games, specifically Red Dead Redemption II, help players experience empathy. Constructing this experience through character attachment, length of play, and identification in a safe experimental space, these games become a bridge leading to greater empathy for people who are different from the player. The immersive nature of these games provides a suitable area for studying the effects of this media on a player’s development of empathy for the character they play, others in the game world, and beyond. This paper focuses on this phenomenon through the player’s performance of the main character, Arthur Morgan, and attempts to connect how this experience applies to the real-world building of player empathy.
Not much scholarly work is needed in order to stumble across many passages where Edmund Husserl seems to advocate an anti-realist attitude towards the natural sciences. This tendency, however, is not ...well-received within the secondary literature. While some commentators criticize Husserl for his alleged scientific anti-realism, others argue that Husserl's position is much more realist than the first impression indicates. It is against this background that I want to argue for the following theses: a) The basic outlook of Husserl's epistemology as well as his more substantial comments regarding the natural sciences indeed result in a (sophisticated version of) scientific anti-realism which bears certain resemblances to Bas van Fraassen's constructive empiricism; b) This scientific anti-realism can be defended against the two most common objections raised in the secondary literature; c) It is only by means of this sophisticated version of scientific anti-realism that phenomenology can circumvent the problem of "scientific objectivism".
Husserl contends that Metaphysics is a science of facts and connects the problem of God to the analysis of the Teleological Rationality pertaining to Facticity. The article analyzes four ...interpretations that lay emphasis on the relationship between Contingency and Necessity in the process of constitution (J. G. Hart), the significance of Hyletics (A. Ales Bello), the problem of God's Phenomenality and its connection with Axiological Increase (E. Housset), and the problems relating to the idea of God as a guarantee for the attainment of harmony in the Community of Monads (K. Held). The purpose is to underline the complementarity of a philosophico-argumentative way and a religious-experiential way in the access to God, and to deal with the objection that Husserl's theory implies an idealization that would conceal the world of life.
El objetivo del artículo es evaluar en qué medida la primera tematización de Husserl de la conciencia afectiva logra extender el concepto de "razón" a esta esfera y determinar si el modo en que lo ...hace amenaza su autonomía respecto de la razón teórica. Nuestro eje será el problema de la constitución originaria del valor en los actos no objetivantes del sentimiento, tema anunciado en las Investigaciones Lógicas que adquiere un rol central en las primeras reflexiones éticas de Husserl.
Why is nature amenable to mathematical description? This question has received attention in the philosophy of science but rarely from a phenomenological perspective. Nevertheless Husserl’s late essay ...“The Origin of Geometry,” which has received some critical scholarly attention in recent years, contains the beginning of a striking answer. This answer proceeds from Husserl’s main claim in that essay, which he also makes in the
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, that the original meaning of science has been covered over or “sedimented” by concepts that obscure the true intentional core of scientific meaning. In the first three sections of this paper I develop Husserl’s central insights about mathematics in light of two contemporary critiques of his project of “reactivation” of the original, sedimented meaning of science. In the latter two sections, I argue that accepting Husserl’s account of the original meaning and development of science offers a promising explanation of why nature is amenable to mathematics. This explanation hinges on a conception of the objects and methods of mathematics and the mathematized physical sciences as
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, that is, as constituted contents of consciousness.
El artículo aborda diversas experiencias de participación de los grupos y kuagros juveniles de San Basilio de Palenque, Bolívar (Colombia). La investigación ubica su sustentación teórica en las ...propuestas de la comunicación para el cambio social. A través de un diseño metodológico cualitativo, el estudio determina cómo estas experiencias de comunicación han generado dinámicas de transformación, fortalecimiento, recuperación, preservación y resistencia en el tejido social palenquero. El aporte al conocimiento se centra en la posibilidad de sistematizar el conocimiento local como una apuesta emergente relevante para las ciencias sociales.
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