Contained in the earliest human stories and into present day exist multiple references to hearing the “voice” of nature, usually expressed musically and/or through feeling, motion, or presence. ...Recent research shows that these experiences are quite common and only rarely associated with pathology. This dissertation asks what is at the core of these auditory experiences and what value they might hold for human experience and relationship in the world? This research, drawing from psychology, ecology, neurobiology, mythology, and religion, finds a persistent awareness, interest, wonder, and expression of these experiences throughout history. Coinciding with massive losses of species and environmental degradation globally, interest in experiential non-measurables, such as extraordinary auditory phenomena, is spiraling in artistic, scientific, and social contexts. This dissertation introduces a geomythic methodology, using tools established in archetypal- and eco-psychology, to trace sound symbols that survive on ancient stone works, are embodied in gods and goddesses, are imagined in the movements and landscapes within epic stories, and are written in the journals of pilgrims and naturalists. It establishes the perception of extraordinary auditory phenomena as a co-creative process that interweaves interiors and exteriors of consciousness and sensation, allowing for an otherwise exaggerated sense of “selfhood” to be sublimated by an interpretive interbeing. Ritual use of sound to bridge outer, inner, and hidden (paranatural) qualities of existence is closely examined in Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism. Victor Zuckerkandl’s ideas on the tripartite structure of musical perception, the third part being a “dynamic force” associated with an “external psychic,” are compared to Jung’s discussion of the phenomenology of spirit. From ecology, Ian McCullan’s hypotheses on the existence of mindfields, suggest an invisible energetic interspecies web of intelligence. Mind, in each of these formations, is not an abstraction of brain function, but is the entirety of intellect, emotion, and ecology of an organism. The auditory mind, because of its synesthetic qualities, is particularly adept at attentively engaging within these complex sensory environments, culminating in an experience of song; a duet between self and other.
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Obwohl Husserl und Deleuze ihre Philosophien unter den Leitbegriff des Transzendentalen stellen, scheint es schwer, sie in ein konstruktives Gespräch miteinander zu bringen. Zu einer ...solchen produktiven Konfrontation soll hier der Versuch unternommen werden, indem die von der Mathematik des 19. Jahrhunderts inspirierte Idee der Mannigfaltigkeit als zentraler Operator bei Deleuze wie auch bei Husserl identifiziert wird. In dieser kritischen Auseinandersetzung schärfen sich auch der Sinn und die Aufgabenstellung der Phänomenologie als einer Philosophie reiner Immanenz, deren grundlegende metaphysische Dimension die Zeit sein muss.
The development in Ricoeur’s concept of time did not receive as much attention as his move from eidetic to hermeneutic phenomenology and his Time and Narrative, with which it coincided. This paper ...attends to the lacuna, specifically departing from Ricoeur’s Husserlian eidetics and moving towards the influence of Augustine’s discussion of the main aporias of time. Initially, Paul Ricoeur’s philosophic approach can be described as a Husserlian eidetic phenomenology, which influenced the way in which he understood time. This changed somewhat when Ricoeur moved from eidetic to hermeneutic phenomenology. Ricoeur has developed his understanding of the concept of time since his initial writings up to the end of his academic career of 70 years. This article focusses on Ricoeur’s initial eidetic approach in Freedom and Nature and, in more existential terms, in Fallible man, but also focusses on the initial phase of his turn to hermeneutics in Volume 1 of Time and Narrative with his exposition of Augustine’s views on time. His eidetic approach stems from his appreciation for and extension of the work of Husserl, Marcel and Kant, while he also drew much from Heidegger and Gadamer after his hermeneutic turn. His initial arguments on the hermeneutic phenomenology of time flow from Augustine’s discussions of the aporias of time. The later extension of his understanding of time to include emplotment was a logical next step.
A magnificent work... that will definitely shape the discussion on Derrida for years to come. -- Rodolphe Gasché What is the nature of the relationship of Jacques Derrida and deconstruction to Edmund ...Husserl and phenomenology? Is deconstruction a radical departure from phenomenology or does it trace its origins to the phenomenological project? In Derrida and Husserl, Leonard Lawlor illuminates Husserl's influence on the French philosophical tradition that inspired Derrida's thought. Beginning with Eugen Fink's pivotal essay on Husserl's philosophy, Lawlor carefully reconstructs the conceptual context in which Derrida developed his interpretation of Husserl. Lawlor's investigations of the work of Jean Cavaillès, Tran-Duc-Thao, and Jean Hyppolite, as well as recent texts by Derrida, reveal the depth of Derrida's relationship to Husserl's phenomenology. Along the way, Lawlor revisits and sheds light on the origin of many important Derridean concepts, such as deconstruction, the metaphysics of presence, différance, intentionality, the trace, and spectrality.
...of this experience, we agreed to work together in Chicago and then 's-Hertogenbosch. Each was encountered in public and neither had any connection to the Playful Arts Festival, which had sponsored ...the performances. Reading the transcript of verbal exchanges between Beuys and members of the public on that occasion (to the extent they were audible in the tape recording), one begins to appreciate the general orientation toward conversation embodied in the performance art of ieke Trinks.18 "Social sculpture" is the term Beuys is perhaps best known for.
Este trabalho visa focar a Geometria Dinâmica da perspectiva da fenomenologia husserliana. Questiona-se: pode a Fenomenologia constituir um solo teórico ao fenômeno Geometria Dinâmica? Para tal ...compreensão foi realizado um estudo bibliográfico sobre Geometria Dinâmica no âmbito da Educação Matemática, buscando como é definida e os termos que mais se apresentam nestas definições e no dizer sobre ela. Tendo esse estudo foi possível fazer leituras em obras de pesquisadores do campo da Fenomenologia, tais como Husserl e Merleau-Ponty, buscando evidências que pudessem ser direcionadas às compreensões correlatas do estudo sobre Geometria Dinâmica. Foi possível tecer um pensar fenomenológico sobre o mover, o construir, o arrastar, bem como sobre as implicações desses atos, tais quais a percepção de movimento, de configurações e desconfigurações, de varações e de invariantes.
My aim in this article is to examine Husserl's comprehension of the "potentialities of intentional life" in the Cartesian Meditations. These potentialities are introduced in deep connection with a ...new vision of intentionality as horizon intentionality, and of experience as synthesis. And because synthesis involves time and time means inner consciousness, the intertwining between actuality and potentiality highly regards consciousness in itself. An analysis of Husserl's description of the ego in the Ideen in terms of actuality and potentiality thus becomes required in order to characterize, through these concepts, the life of consciousness itself. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
This article raises the question of whether husserl's phenomenology belongs to the metaphysics of presence by examining the relation between protoimpression and retention. On the one hand, the ...foundational role of protoimpression indicates continuity between husserl's thought and the metaphysics of presence. On the other hand, the co-originary worth ascribed to retention may protect his thought from the criticisms of metaphysics. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
Within the sphere of cognitive experience, every unknown object of perception is always apperceived by means of pre-known empirical types that vary depending on the confirmation, specification or ...cancelation of horizons. Analogically, within the practical dominion, any reference to ends is always a typified intention mediated by practical horizons that pre-delineate the causal conditions implied in each given course of action. The latter would make intelligible, on the one hand, the practical act as an experience whose correlate is posited on the basis of a concomitant consciousness of one's own acquainted efficacy and, on the other, the surrounding practical world as a realm of practical positing. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
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