{"title":"The Concept of Stratification of the Work of Art in the Aesthetic Thought of Roman Ingarden and Władysław Stróżewski in Relation to Contemporary Art On the Example of an Analysis and Interpretation of an Installation by Arthur Jafa","authors":"R. Solewski","doi":"10.12797/9788381383936.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381383936.05","url":null,"abstract":"The text begins with an indication of the influence Roman Ingarden’s philosophy exerted on Władysław Stróżewski’s aesthetic thought. A particular emphasis is applied to the belief in the intentional nature of the work of art, as well as its multi-- layered structure and the location of the ‘aesthetically valuable qualities’ and ‘qualities of aesthetic values’ within such a structure. Next, selected topics discussed by Stróżewski in Dialectics of Creativity are presented. Finally, considerations regarding the relationship ‘was–is,’ ‘beginning–end,’ ‘top (content, idea)–bottom (material, technique)’, necessity and freedom, as well as necessity and possibility are applied to the contemporary ‘installation art.’ Arthur Jafa’s work The White Album (awarded the main trophy at the 2019 Biennial in Venice) is analyzed. Although the installation is constructed with the use of various media and materials, it has been shown that the reception of the whole gives it the character of an intentional work. The analysis also demonstrates a presence of a multi-layered structure and dialectical juxtapositions mentioned above. For installations using various materials and media, the multiplication of strata and the surprising transformation (through a unique ‘installation’) of the material-meaning-sense relationship is especially characteristic. The multiplication of strata and the transformation of material-meaning-sense relationship also highlight the issues raised in Dialectics of Creativity, yet they do so in an artistic way. The specific ‘aesthetically valuable’ qualities such as immersiveness, intensity, and poeticality are eventually described as revealing the values of beauty and truth.","PeriodicalId":105988,"journal":{"name":"Roman Ingarden and Our Times: Recent Trends in Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosophy","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132898644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Enduring Importance of Roman Ingarden for Reception Theory","authors":"Michael Raubach","doi":"10.12797/9788381383936.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381383936.04","url":null,"abstract":"There have been few philosophers in the 20th century more creative and profound and yet more obscure than Roman Ingarden. He anticipated many of the major philosophical questions that would dominate literary theory in the 1960s and 70s in Germany, France, and the United States. In this paper, I argue that his primary contribution to literary theory is an ontology that arcs deftly between the poles of idealism and realism with a nuanced way of upholding both the formal reality of the literary work of art and the subjective assessment of aesthetic value, all the while preserving the fundamental meaning-making function of language. It was this philosophical foundation that proved to be a fertile ground for later philosophers, like Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser, who wanted to push back on what they saw as analogous forces to idealism and realism in the rigidity of formalism and Marxist materialism and the ostensible epistemological nihilism of the psychological hermeneutics.","PeriodicalId":105988,"journal":{"name":"Roman Ingarden and Our Times: Recent Trends in Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosophy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122024107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Externalist and Internalist Interpretations of Aristotle’s De Anima 3.5. The Psychology of Alexander of Aphrodisias As a Possible Remedy to the Thomistic Monopoly. Introductory Considerations","authors":"Sonia Kamińska","doi":"10.12797/9788381383936.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381383936.08","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is devoted to Alexander of Aphrodisias, the Exegete, whose theory is gaining popularity among Aristotelian scholars as a possible solution to manifold interpretation problems created by Aristotle’s De Anima 3.5 due to its brevity and obscurity. I recommend Alexander’s solution as a remedy for two main predicaments concerning the notorious second intellect called enigmatically nous poietikos: the mysterious (if any) function of active intellect, and Thomistic monopoly in the field of Aristotle’s psychology (and theology). In other words, I believe that the externalist interpretations which identify nous poietikos with the Deity or a noetic sphere are more appropriate than the internalist ones that include the productive mind in our mental apparatus (Aquinas being the most famous partisan of this view). This is why I believe Alexander (an externalist), who remains rather unknown to scholars focused outside ancient philosophy, should be introduced to the broader public, especially because he inspired the Arabic philosophy, which is also an alternative to internalism (often overlapping with theistic readings). This introduction, alongside shedding light on some psychological issues, is the main aim of my paper.","PeriodicalId":105988,"journal":{"name":"Roman Ingarden and Our Times: Recent Trends in Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosophy","volume":"213 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132999223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond the Nature/Culture Division. Building Complementary Knowledge on Disease","authors":"A. Derra","doi":"10.12797/9788381383936.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381383936.06","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the article is to present successful instances of building complementary knowledge on disease which go beyond the traditional division between natural and socio-cultural sciences. I argue that this is partially possible due to the changes in biological narratives and feminism’s attitude towards biology, with reciprocal references. First, I describe selected trends in the philosophy of biology which reflect changes in biological research towards more non-reductionist approaches. Then, I present some important aspects of the recent current in feminist studies called ‘new feminist materialism,’ and underline its clear attempt at combining research results from physics, biology, humanities, and social sciences. Finally, I present some main facets of studies on disease: in feminist reflection, Ludwik Fleck’s psycho-sociology of scientific knowledge, and in the medical humanities approach.","PeriodicalId":105988,"journal":{"name":"Roman Ingarden and Our Times: Recent Trends in Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosophy","volume":"243 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121481111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Good and Bad Reasons for Endorsing Mereological Hylemorphism","authors":"D. Franken","doi":"10.12797/9788381383936.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381383936.07","url":null,"abstract":"Hylemorphism is the view that an object’s essence is—at least in part—determined by what is called the object’s form. According to the mereological version of hylemorphism, an object’s form is also a proper part of the object alongside its physical parts. Whether there are good reasons for this assumption depends not least on the background assumptions about forms and their role in the composition of objects. In the case of contemporary mereological hylemorphists, this background is provided by what I call vertical hylemorphism. I shall first argue that, as long as vertical hylemorphism is accepted, there are no good reasons for endorsing mereologism. Then, I shall point out that there is an attractive, alternative version of hylemorphism—horizontal hylemorphism—which provides good reasons to endorse mereologism.","PeriodicalId":105988,"journal":{"name":"Roman Ingarden and Our Times: Recent Trends in Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosophy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133995152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Fragmentary Condition of Aesthetics at the Turn of 21st Century","authors":"Kamil Lipiński","doi":"10.12797/9788381383936.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381383936.09","url":null,"abstract":"The ‘fragmentary condition’ relates to Jena Romanticism as the point of departure to discuss how the idea of the fragment moves from classical, literary studies to contemporary art and becomes part of a broader interpretation of the 20th century fin de siècle aesthetics. The article builds on Jean-Luc Nancy’s and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s theoretical insights into Jena Romanticism in order to examine the unification of all genres separated from poetry to touch poetry, philosophy, rhetoric through the anecdotal and witty articulation, as well as ars combinatoria. For Romantics, the basic imperative was to educate, form their existence, that is, Bildung, in Hegelian terms, cultural education, formation, development. This literary foundation is defined by Jean-Luc Nancy as a fragmentary existence which he identifies with the fraction, fractal essence, inherent separation, disengaging. Nancy was intent on examining the emergence of various contemporary works expressing their essence in terms of breaks, incompleteness, and an autonomous role of the fragment. This classical conceptual foundation provides these key conceptual and methodological perspectives and allows for discussing the implications of the critical aesthetics of the fin de siècle for the practices of fraction, ex-peau-sition, spacing, and division in the contemporary research in art.","PeriodicalId":105988,"journal":{"name":"Roman Ingarden and Our Times: Recent Trends in Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosophy","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122366465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Izydora Dąmbska’s Study on Ingarden’s and Frege’s Philosophy of Language in View of the Contemporary Discussion about the Relationship between Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy","authors":"Aleksandra Gomułczak","doi":"10.12797/9788381383936.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381383936.01","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to elaborate on Izydora Dąmbska’s comparative study of the philosophy of language of Ingarden and Frege. My analysis is conducted within the context of the studies about the so-called analytic-continental divide. In the first section, I give an account of Dąmbska’s analysis of the similarities between Ingarden and Frege. The second section is devoted to the examination of Ingarden’s relationship to the analytic philosophy of language. This part delivers more detailed comments on some essential connections between Ingarden and Frege, and Ingarden and Ajdukiewicz, respectively. I conclude with the statement that Dąmbska’s work (and the philosophy of the Lvov-Warsaw School in general) plays an important role on the map of the studies about the analytic-continental divide.","PeriodicalId":105988,"journal":{"name":"Roman Ingarden and Our Times: Recent Trends in Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosophy","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127237311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Formalism and Phenomenology in Vasily Sesemann’s Aesthetics","authors":"Dalius Jonkus","doi":"10.12797/9788381383936.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381383936.03","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to analyze the connection between formalism and phenomenology in Vasily Sesemann’s aesthetics. In the articles “Aesthetic valuation in the history of art” (1922), “The nature of poetic image” (1925), “Art and culture” (1927), Seseman discusses the formalist concept of art. However, the most complete critique of the formalist idea of art is revealed in his Aesthetics (1970). In this book, he presented the most comprehensive conception of aesthetic structure. In this paper, I set out first to analyze the most important features of the formalist history of art, and then to explore how Sesemann transforms the concept of artistic form into a conception of aesthetic structure. I argue that formalistic analysis of art transforms the concept of artistic form into a style. This style is nothing less than the experience of being in the world. Sesemann abandons the dualistic separation of sensory material and intelligible form, and instead offers the concept of aesthetic structure. He reveals the relationship between the sensory structure of an aesthetic object and the perceiving subject. Aesthetic value can be revealed as meaningful only with the participation of a subject and with the necessary contemplative attitude. Analysis of art must cover not only individual structures of the object, but also a phenomenological analysis of perception. The combination of formalism and phenomenology is a peculiar characteristic of Sesemann’s aesthetics. The structural analysis reveals a systematic coherence among the artistic creator, work of art, and its perceiver.","PeriodicalId":105988,"journal":{"name":"Roman Ingarden and Our Times: Recent Trends in Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosophy","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116661941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ingarden’s Legacy: Responsibility as Legal and Beyond","authors":"P. Janik","doi":"10.12797/9788381383936.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381383936.02","url":null,"abstract":"Following Ingarden’s thoughts on the meaning of responsibility, this paper presents an analysis in the domain of values, without limiting it to ethics. Ingarden’s concept of responsibility is deeply rooted in the legal tradition and therefore establishes a mostly juridical and penal understanding of responsibility. I also refer to Stein’s research, which coincides with Ingarden’s thought and eventually provides a basis for responsibility. In her polemics with Scheler, Stein postulated accessing values through feeling in terms of a “living body.” In other words, Stein agrees with Scheler about the correlate of feeling, however, she opposes the personality account in Scheler and underlines the key role of the disposition of the living body and even the “personal touch,” one which enriches the concept of intentionality. Responsibility is crucial for the individual, for his or her development and life, as I will try to outline in this paper.","PeriodicalId":105988,"journal":{"name":"Roman Ingarden and Our Times: Recent Trends in Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosophy","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125660732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}