Memory in the Ontopoiesis of Life: Book One. Memory in the Generation and Unfolding of Life (Analecta Husserliana, 101)

"From Aristotle to the present, memory has been grasped as an image - a trace or impression left by a lost reality - and has been seen as bridging physiological experience and consciousness. Through the centuries philosophers have vainly sought to make concrete the nature of this bridge between sensory experience and consciousness. The present-day physiologizing/naturalizing of consciousness is no closer than previous attempts to resolving their congenital continuity. But the very existence and practice of life is rooted in this continuity, and clearly we have to change our approach to and formulation of this enigma (Erwin Straus). This will mean simultaneously hitting upon and entering into the Aristotelian congenital ties between memory and temporality, which acquire crucial significance in our primogenital ontopoiesis of life (Tymieniecka). The ontopoietic approach to the generation and unfolding of beingness, to the step by step temporalizing of life in the whirl of coalescing moments, reveals memory to be the factor that carries the great secret of this coalescence of temporality and the becoming of life itself. This selectivity and coalescence cannot be the fruit of singular functional schemata or organs, but must proceed from the generative springs of life. become the new platform of first phenomenology/philosophy, with the fluctuating thread of continuity of memory now to be sought at the innermost heart of beingness and becoming in the ontopoietic logos of life. We propose in this collection to explore the fulgurating force of memory within the perspective of the constitution of reality: rememorizing and interpretation, consciousness and action, facts and imagination, history and myths, self-realization and metamorphosis."--Jacket Front Matter....Pages I-XVII Front Matter....Pages 3-3 Memory and The Myth of Prometheus....Pages 5-15 A History of The Idea of Organic Memory....Pages 17-24 Memory and Action: The Conscience of Time in Personal Becoming in Bergson and Blondel....Pages 25-49 Phenomenology of Life on Memory: Revealing The Creative Human Condition in The Music Art Universe....Pages 53-59 Front Matter....Pages 61-61 The Anthropocentric Versus Biocentric Outlook on Nature....Pages 63-72 Ecological Design And Retrieving The Environmental Meaning....Pages 73-79 Philosophical-Historical Aspects Of Land Relations (On Example Of Russian North Nations)....Pages 81-91 The Phenomenon of The Gaze....Pages 95-102 Front Matter....Pages 103-103 Kierkegaard And The Phenomenology Of Repetition In The Nouveau Roman ....Pages 105-118 Notion Of Forgetting And Remembering In Piranesi: Fireplace As The Setting Of A Dionysian Play....Pages 119-132 The Category Of The “NOW” In Husserlian Phenomenology Of Time—Polemic Against Derridean Anti-Presentialism....Pages 133-139 “ Smritir Bhumika ” (The Role of Memory): Some Memory-Related Poems and Songs of Rabindranath....Pages 141-146 Memory As a Challange to Human Existence – Aspects Of Temporality And The Role Of Memory In Reference To Guitton’S Concept Of Time....Pages 147-152 Time, Memory And The Musical Perception....Pages 153-163 Front Matter....Pages 165-165 Memory, Personal Identity, and Moral Responsibility....Pages 167-179 Memory As a Positive and Negative Motivation Component In a Person’s Activity....Pages 181-190 “Interpreting” The Modern Times – Possibilities, Limitations, Social And Vital Functions....Pages 191-200 The Activity Of The Self-Realization Within The Context Of The Fabricated Identity Of The Consumer Self And Its Transformation....Pages 201-212 Utilitarian-Aesthetic Dynamics of Nature....Pages 213-229 Front Matter....Pages 231-231 Memory and Creativity in The Context of Ontopoiesis of Beingness: A-T. Tymieniecka and A. Bergson....Pages 233-242 Front Matter....Pages 231-231 About The Correlation of Memory and Remembrance in The Structure of The Soul....Pages 243-250 The Interplay of Light and Dark....Pages 253-282 Memory – The Possibility of Creation in A Learning World – Interpretation....Pages 283-301 Back Matter....Pages 303-306 From Aristotle to the present, memory has been grasped as an image--a trace or impression left by a lost reality--and has been seen as bridging physiological experience and consciousness. Through the centuries philosophers have vainly sought to make concrete the nature of this bridge between sensory experience and consciousness. The present-day physiologizing/naturalizing of consciousness is no closer than previous attempts to resolving their congenital continuity. But the very existence and practice of life is rooted in this continuity, and clearly we have to change our approach to and formulation of this enigma (Erwin Straus). This will mean simultaneously hitting upon and entering into the Aristotelian congenital ties between memory and temporality, which acquire crucial significance in our primogenital ontopoiesis of life (Tymieniecka). The ontopoietic approach to the generation and unfolding of beingness, to the step by step temporalizing of life in the whirl of coalescing moments, reveals memory to be the factor that carries the great secret of this coalescence of temporality and the becoming of life itself. This selectivity and coalescence cannot be the fruit of singular functional schemata or organs, but must proceed from the generative springs of life, become the new platform of first phenomenology/philosophy, with the fluctuating thread of continuity of memory now to be sought at the innermost heart of beingness and becoming in the ontopoietic logos of life. We propose in this collection to explore the fulgurating force of memory within the perspective of the constitution of reality: rememorizing and interpretation, consciousness and action, facts and imagination, history and myths, self-realization and metamorphosis .. "In the temporal becoming of individualizing life the actual present passes into past and comes to be reflected and recaptured in memory. While the vital logos of beingness recollects for its constitutive use (employment) fragments from memory's magazine, ensuring constructive continuity in accordance with its genetic patterns, the creative logos of the human mind also is indebted in contrast to the work of memory in creative imagination for the essential role it plays in the selective transformation, invention, projection that informs the felt and intelligible logos of human selfhood, personality, meaning, fullness, destiny ... within the human community and the world of life." "As fragmentary and seemingly disjointed as it is in relation to concrete subjective experience, memory as it surges from the past into the actual present, even though subject to transformation, maintains an essential link to constituting reality, yes, but more importantly outlines the future. The creative imagination of the logos of human mind projects horizons for the vertiginous past. An encircling continuity of sense then embraces the earliest evolution of humankind, on the one extreme, and the fulgurations of the sacral logos, on the other. Hence we may consider memory as sustaining the sensing the logos of the human orbit with its horizons. In its innumerably differentiated role we may find its unifying stream only upon the primogenital - ontopoietic - platform of the logos of life."--Jacket From Aristotle to the present, memory has been grasped as a trace or impression of lost reality – bridging physiological experience and consciousness. Philosophers have vainly sought the nature of this bridge. The present-day physiologizing/naturalizing of consciousness is not resolving their congenital continuity, in which the very existence and practice of life is rooted. We have to change our approach (Erwin Straus). The Aristotelian congenital ties between memory and temporality, acquire crucial significance in our primogenital ontopoiesis of life (Tymieniecka). It reveals memory to be the factor that carries this coalescence and the becoming of life itself. This can be the fruit only of the generative springs of life, first phenomenology/philosophy, the ontopoietic logos of life. In this collection we explore memory in the constitution of reality: rememorizing and interpretation, consciousness/action, facts/imagination, history/myths, self-realization/metamorphosis.