Does the World Exist?: Plurisignificant Ciphering of Reality (Analecta Husserliana Book 79)

"**Does the World exist**?" There would be no reason to resurrect this question of modernity from its historical oblivion were it not for the fact that recent evolution in science and technology, impregnating culture, makes us wonder about the nature of reality, of the world we are living in, and of our status as living beings within it. Thus great metaphysical subjacent queries are forcefully revived, calling for new investigations to proceed in the light of the innumerable novel insights of science. This collection presents a wealth of material toward an elaboration of a new metaphysical groundwork of the ontopoiesis/ phenomenology of life sought to effect such investigations. The classic postulates of the metaphysics of reality, those of necessity and certainty here find a new formulation. Away from sclerotized ontological and cognitive assumptions and congenial with the views of contemporary science, the understanding of reality, of our world of life, and of ourselves within it is to be sought in the existential/__ontopoietic ciphering of____life__ (Tymieniecka). Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Human Creative Condition Between Autopoiesis and Ontopoiesis in the thought of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka....Pages 3-20 Ethical Remarks Around the Specifically HUMAN Existence in the Phenomenology of Life....Pages 21-40 The Role of Ciphering in Phenomenology of Life....Pages 41-50 “Man-World”; “Man-Nature”: Reflections on “Feeling” and Acting....Pages 51-65 Ekstasy of the World/Immanence of Life Michel Henry, Reader of Husserl....Pages 67-86 Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Way through Philosophy, Science and Art....Pages 87-94 Front Matter....Pages 95-95 The Controversy about the Existence of the World in Edmund Husserl’S Phenomenological School: A. Reinach, R. Ingarden, H. Conrad-Martius, E. Stein....Pages 97-115 The Phenomenological Status of the World: Possibility and Actuality....Pages 117-128 The Advance of the Sense of the Controversy over the Existence of the World Heideggerian work as an Example. A Metaphilosophical Experience....Pages 129-146 Reality as “Life” and “Vitality” the Idealism-Realism of Max Scheler....Pages 147-165 The Problem of the World: Merleau-Ponty on Flesh, Soul and Place....Pages 167-182 The Critique of the Phenomenological Concept of the World According to Michel Henry....Pages 183-198 Front Matter....Pages 199-199 An Archeology of Beginnings: Phenomenology and the Space of the World....Pages 201-215 Edmund Husserl: Empathy and the Transcendental Constitution of the World....Pages 217-237 ‘Worlds Apart? Sartre’s and Merleau-Ponty’s Transition from Transcendental to Ontological Perspective on the Nature of the World’....Pages 239-258 On “Enworlding” Transcendental Subjectivity: Rethinking A Misleading Metaphor....Pages 259-282 The Transcendental — Phenomenological Meaning of the Notion of “Experience” in the Philosophies of E. Husserl and J. Dewey....Pages 283-292 Front Matter....Pages 293-293 Interhuman Communication Beyond the Limits of Time (Gadamer) and the Temporality of Lonely Dasein (Heidegger)....Pages 295-311 A. Schutz’s Contribution to Phenomenological Theory of Intersubjectivity....Pages 313-319 Ingarden and the Philologists....Pages 321-326 Front Matter....Pages 293-293 Narrative Self and World....Pages 327-338 Ontopoiesis of Life and New Horizons in Humanitarian Education....Pages 339-347 Intentionality and the “Being-in-the-Lanugage” of Michel Foucault....Pages 349-362 Outlooking: Notes and Drafts on Abstraction and Memory....Pages 363-372 Dream and Myth: Cognitive and Ontological Value....Pages 373-386 Knowledge of the World or World of Knowledge?....Pages 387-392 Ontopoética Del Significante: EL Palpo Del Signo....Pages 393-418 Front Matter....Pages 419-419 The Wisdom of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam ....Pages 421-434 Artistic and Aesthetic Values as the Ontological Foundation for the World of the Literary Work....Pages 435-445 A World of Art, Politics, Passion and Betrayal: Trotsky, Rivera and Breton and Manifesto : Towards A Free Revolutionary Art (1938)....Pages 447-466 From Hegel to Ingarden: Aesthetic Objects and the “Creation” of the World....Pages 467-483 Phenomenology of the Poetical....Pages 485-499 Front Matter....Pages 501-501 Monade Et Monde. RéFlexions Sur Les “MéDitations Cartesiennes” De E. Husserl....Pages 503-514 L’Ethique Phénoménologique D’Edmund Husserl À Max Scheler....Pages 515-536 Human Dignity and the Objectification of the Human Being....Pages 537-601 Causality and Freedom in Roman Ingarden....Pages 603-610 The Promised Land, the Denied Land....Pages 611-624 Front Matter....Pages 625-625 Phenomenology as A Fact of Cultural History....Pages 627-636 A Heideggerian Defense of Phenomenology against Adorno’s Negative Dialectical Critique....Pages 637-648 The Gods of Time: Husserl, the Maya, and the Pre-Scientific World....Pages 649-663 Front Matter....Pages 625-625 How Does the Snake Exist in the Rope? The Controversy about the Status of the Existence of the World in Classical Indian Thought....Pages 665-674 Lifeworld: A Comparative Study of Some Aspects of Chinese and Husserlian Theory....Pages 675-682 The World as an Eternal Entity and Vitalogical Living Reality....Pages 683-704 Chinese Tales of Origin: A Hermeneutics of Narrative Discourse....Pages 705-715 Front Matter....Pages 717-717 Thinking with the Skin: The Problem of Space in Modern Philosophy: E. Husserl and A-T. Tymieniecka....Pages 719-727 Temporalization of the Body Within Phenomenology and the Metaphysics of Manifestation....Pages 729-737 The Metaphysical Foundations of Environmental Philosophy....Pages 739-744 Toward a Phenomenological Grounding of the Geographical Conception of Therapeutic Landscapes....Pages 745-773 Front Matter....Pages 775-775 Birth and Natality in Hannah Arendt....Pages 777-797 Psychopathologies and Cultural Factors: Some Neo-Evolutionist Perspectives....Pages 799-807 An Historical Approach to Ontopoiesis of life and Mind. the Philosophy of J. C. Smuts....Pages 809-820 Science and Reality....Pages 821-833 Systems as Emergent Phenomena....Pages 835-854 A Classification of the Approaches to the Ontology of Possible Worlds....Pages 855-866 Towards the Philosophical Swann....Pages 867-876 Back Matter....Pages 877-888 " Does the World exist ?" There would be no reason to resurrect this question of modernity from its historical oblivion were it not for the fact that recent evolution in science and technology, impregnating culture, makes us wonder about the nature of reality, of the world we are living in, and of our status as living beings within it. Thus great metaphysical subjacent queries are forcefully revived, calling for new investigations to proceed in the light of the innumerable novel insights of science. This collection presents a wealth of material toward an elaboration of a new metaphysical groundwork of the ontopoiesis/ phenomenology of life sought to effect such investigations. The classic postulates of the metaphysics of reality, those of necessity and certainty here find a new formulation. Away from sclerotized ontological and cognitive assumptions and congenial with the views of contemporary science, the understanding of reality, of our world of life, and of ourselves within it is to be sought in the existential/ ontopoietic ciphering of life (Tymieniecka).