Eugene Kaelin’s essay “The Visibility of Things Seen: A Phenomenological View of Painting.” is an investigation into the phenomenological system of paintings: how the consciousness is guided in the viewing of an aesthetic object by the intentional visual structure of the object’s “universe” (55). He begins with a critique of Roman Ingarden’s Das Literarische Kunstwerk, [...]
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E. Kaelin: “The Visibility of Things Seen: A Phenomenological View of Painting.”
Posted in Husserl, intentionality, lived-experience, tagged Merleau-Ponty, aesthetics, art, Sarte on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
E. Tehennepe: ‘The Life-World and the World of Ordinary Language’
Posted in Language, analytic philosophy, intentionality, lived-experience, tagged Language on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This essay discusses the arguments regarding the relationships between ordinary language philosophy and phenomenology. Tehennepe prefaces this discussion by contrasting two opposing views. John Wild affirms that ordinary language is present in the phenomena of everyday life, and that phenomenology and language analysis seek the same existential explanations of “concrete experience” (133) from [...]
P. Bartok, ‘Brentano’s Intentionality Thesis’
Posted in intentionality, tagged analytic philosophy, Brentano, Chisholm, Heidegger, Husserl, intentionality, phenomena, phenomenology, psychologism, psychology on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Phillip Bartok considers the two dominant readings of Brentano’s view of intentionality in his article, “Brentano’s Intentionality Thesis: Beyond the Analytic and Phenomenological Readings.” Brentano’s thesis is, stated succinctly, that “all and only mental phenomena are characterized by the intentional inexistence of or [...]
Concatenations and the Transcendental Ego
Posted in Husserl, intentionality, pure ego, transcendental ego on October 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Class on October 1st … John began class today with a summary of the concepts we have worked through in Husserl’s Ideas I. He placed these concepts on a sort of map, pairing several of them with those that they resemble and those that constitute their partner concepts. I have tried to reproduce this [...]
Immanence(s), Transcendencies, and Absolute Being
Posted in Husserl, adumbration, intentionality, lived-experience, mineness, pure consciousness, pure ego, reflection, universality on September 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
*What I have written here is an attempt to make sense of our discussion and Husserl’s thought. While I would love to imagine that I was capable of getting Husserl in the first month, I hereby pragmatically stress that I am not in fact capable of such feats. What follows is therefore a particular interpretation, [...]
Intentionality and Reflection
Posted in Husserl, intentionality, pure consciousness, pure ego, reflection on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Class on 24 September … In the beginning of class we outlined several “moments of insight” regarding Husserlian phenomenology, key concepts that reveal more and more about the philosophy. This served as a sort of review of the previous class sessions. The concept of Fact and Essence and their inseparability, the Natural Attitude and its [...]