Studies in Phenomenology



ISSN 2226-5260

 

St. Petersburg State University
Institute of Philosophy

 HORIZON

Studies in Phenomenology

STUDIEN ZUR PHÄNOMENOLOGIE
ФЕНОМЕНОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ
ÉTUDES PHÉNOMÉNOLOGIQUES

 

Volume 2, Number 1 2013

 

CONTENTS

 

I. RESEARCH

Motroshilova Nelly
G. Kantor and E. Husserl: the Interrelationship of their Ideas
7-27
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Motroshilova Nelly
DSc in Philosophy, Professor
Head of the Department of the historical-philosophical investigations, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Science
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Abstract
The article deals with the scientific interrelationship between the great mathematician G. Kantor and the young mathematician-philosopher E. Husserl. Their cooperation started during their stay in Halle and their work at Halle University. It was at this time that Kantor’s set theory and Husserl’s phenomenology were being formed. Such fundamental concepts as those of set, unity and manifold, whole and aggregate, number etc. were explored both by Kantor, a well-known mathematician and by Husserl, who was then a beginning philosopher, the author of the “Philosophy of arithmetic” and the “Logical investigations”. The article offers a somewhat unorthodox view, demonstrating how deeply and strongly Husserl’s philosophical search was related to the history of mathematics, logic and exact sciences in general. It is also demonstrated that the philosophical dimension of Kantor’s work is not cancelled with the “antimetaphysical” turn in mathematics and natural sciences in the 20th century, for it constitutes an answer (adequate to his time) to today’s and tomorrow’s theoretical needs of the science.

Key words
Set theory, philosophy of mathematics, phenomenology, the concept of number, philosophy of arithmetic.

DOI : 10.18199/2226-5260-2013-2-1-7-27

Chernavin Georgy
The Teleology of Concordant Experience in Husserl’s Phenomenology
28-47
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Chernavin Georgy
Graduate student of the Department of Ontology and Epistemology, Faculty of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University
PhD student of the Laboratory ERRAPHIS, University Toulouse II Le Mirail (France)
PhD student of the University of Wuppertal (Germany)
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Abstract
In this paper we treat the problematic of immanent teleology of experience in the boundaries of transcendental phenomenology, including problems such as the accomplishment of intention, adequate evidence, and implications of reason in experience. We bring special attention to the thematic of the Thing, which we treat as a “regulative idea” or as a τέλος. In the paper, we also discuss the synthesis of the concordance of experience and the mental experiment of the dissolving of concordance. On this grounds we conclude with a discussion of the possible connection between immanent teleology of experience and phenomenological metaphysics.

Key words
Immanent teleology of experience, transcendental phenomenology, evidence, concordance, thing, regulative idea.

DOI : 10.18199/2226-5260-2013-2-1-28-47

Gedina Linda
The Meaning of the Montage for the Esthetic Value of a Film. An Explanation with Reference to Heidegger
48-61
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Author
Gedina Linda
MA in Philosophy
PhD student, University of Latvia, Cesis, Latvia
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Abstract
With Heidegger film phenomenology becomes able to elucidate understanding in so far as it is noematic. In the art of film it is during montage that the single frame of meaning is created. Film editing has different interpretations in theories of cinema, but filmmakers make use of it so that it lets the language offi lm become that of art. It is not a language with abstract rules regulating understanding, on the conrary, it is showing itself that happens “between” the canvas of the screen and the spectator in which is created this work of art. The work of art builds itself as a reference whole of connotative indexes, while the film tries to get away it explicitly before the spectator’s eyes. Auteur cinema in its turn has an artificial language which is built so as to determine or modify the understanding of a film. Such a film has a noematic language generating senses where particular features of the language of art are articulated on behalf of the genuine purpose of the film.

Key words
Film phenomenology, montage, noema, auteur cinema.

DOI : 10.18199/2226-5260-2013-2-1-48-61

Ottaviano Giulietta
G. Shpet: a Way from Phenomenology to Hermeneutics
62-75
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Author
Ottaviano Giulietta
DSc in Philosophy
University Roma Tre, Department of Philosophy
Member of the Philosophical Society of Rome
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Abstract
This article examines the analysis of themes relevants to Husserl’s phenomenology, which are present in Appearance and Sense by Gustav Shpet: the relation between sense and comprehension and between noesis and noema. Shpet emphasizes the hermeneutical theme regarding “comprehension” as a resolutive dimension to solve aspects not clarified by Husserl. The Shpet’s critical enquiry, in the course of his subsequent observation, gets to an hermeneutical logic. Shpet identifies the centrality of language as a form of thinking, through the recovery of the Humboldt’s meaning of the “inner form”.

Key words
Gustav Shpet, Sense and Comprehension, noema, noesis, hermeneutical logic, the inner form, philosophy of culture.

DOI : 10.18199/2226-5260-2013-2-1-62-75

Muresan Ioana-Marta
The Sublime and Teleological Reflection in Marc Richir and Edmund Husserl
76-82
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Author
Muresan Ioana-Marta
MA in Philosophy
University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
MA student of the University of Toulouse II — Le Mirail (France) and Hosei University (Tokyo, Japan)
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Abstract
Identifying from the very beginning the ethical nature of Husserl’s phenomenology in the conjunction between the formal and historical teleology, the author searches for the same ethical mark in the richirian philosophy of “instability”. She does so by discussing the concepts of telos in relation to the “moment” of sublime. The latter also leads to the question of the balance between ethics and aesthetics in the restructured field of phenomenology, as envisaged by Marc Richir.

Key words
Teleology, history, sublime, ethics, aesthetics, archè, event.

DOI : 10.18199/2226-5260-2013-2-1-76-82

 

II. ARCHIVE

Schnell Alexander
Time and Phenomenon. Husserl’s Phenomenology of Time (1893–1918). Section С. The Constitution of Pre-immanent Temporality. Chapter III. The Original Process and Double Fulfilling-Emptying Intentionality in “Bernau Manuscripts”. Part 2
(Trans., Comment. by G. Chernavin)
83-117
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Chernavin Georgy
Graduate student of the Department of Ontology and Epistemology, Faculty of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University
PhD student of the Laboratory ERRAPHIS, University Toulouse II Le Mirail (France)
PhD student of the University of Wuppertal (Germany)
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Abstract
In the second part of published translation, A. Schnell describes primordial temporal process (and it’s reflective given) in terms of “filling” and “devastation” with the help of “three-dimensional” temporal diagram and forms a model of protoprocess as process of constitution and formation of specific temporal noemata.

Key words
Pre-immanent temporality, filling-devastating intentionality, retential and protential phases, protoprocess.

Husserl Edmund
Husserliana XXXIII. Bernau Manuscripts on Time Consciousness (1917/1918) № 13
(Trans., Comment. by G. Chernavin)
118-130
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Chernavin Georgy
Graduate student of the Department of Ontology and Epistemology, Faculty of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University
PhD student of the Laboratory ERRAPHIS, University Toulouse II Le Mirail (France)
PhD student of the University of Wuppertal (Germany)
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Abstract
Central problem of this text is the need of prevention of infinite regress of constitutive levels of consciousness-time. Husserl solves this problem with the help of internal reflexivity of consciousness, to be exact of retential interrelationship of consciousness with itself. Such a decision requires an analysis of the introspection procedure, which Husserl conducts with support of new diagrams of consciousness-time and diagrams of introspection.

Key words
Constitution of immanent time, levels of consciousness-time, regress, internal reflexivity of consciousness, intention, prehension, retention.

Grondin Jean
The Late Discovery of Schelling in Hermeneutics
(Trans., Comment. by А. Vyazemskiy)
131-142
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Author
Viazemskiy Aleksandr
Post-graduate student of the Faculty of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University
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Abstract
This article does not pretend to give a full exposal of declared thesis, but rather points out a number of facts that testify the influence of Schelling’s philosophy (of the period of “positive philosophy and philosophy of revelation”) on the formation of hermeneutics in the person of Heidegger and Gadamer. This is where Gronden indicates the relation between the concept of “non-preconcievable” of Schelling and the concept of “self-” of Heidegger; with the help of this relation Gadamer, as noted by Gronden, connects Heidegger’s hermeneutics of facticity and Schelling’s “philosophy of revelation”, which allowed him to give ontological character to the concept of language.

Key words
Non-preconcievable, self-, hermeneutics of M. Heidegger, H.-G. Gadamer.

 

III. DISCUSSIONS

Interview with Prof. Dr. László Tengely
Wuppertal University, 2nd July 2012, Part 2
(Prep. and Trans. by А. Kozyreva, G. Chernavin)
143-156
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Tengelyi László
DSc in Philosophy
PhD in Classical Philology
Professor at the University of Wuppertal (Germany)
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Kozyreva Anastasia
MA in Philosophy
Research worker at the Center for Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, Faculty of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University
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Chernavin Georgy
Graduate student of the Department of Ontology and Epistemology, Faculty of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University
PhD student of the Laboratory ERRAPHIS, University Toulouse II Le Mirail (France)
PhD student of the University of Wuppertal (Germany)
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Abstract
In the second published part of the interview questions about the future of phenomenology as loyal to transcendental project of Husserl and its interaction with philosophical and non-philosophical disciplines, academic form of phenomenology that impedes the dissociation with other lines of investigation, role of the practical problems in the future of phenomenology.

Key words
Politics, ethics, theory of action, gestalt psychology, phenomenological sociology.

Gesprach mit Prof. Dr. László Tengely
Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Den 02. Juli 2012. Teil II
(Prep. and Trans. by А. Kozyreva, G. Chernavin)
157-169
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Author
Tengelyi László
DSc in Philosophy
PhD in Classical Philology
Professor at the University of Wuppertal (Germany)
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Kozyreva Anastasia
MA in Philosophy
Research worker at the Center for Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, Faculty of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University
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Chernavin Georgy
Graduate student of the Department of Ontology and Epistemology, Faculty of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University
PhD student of the Laboratory ERRAPHIS, University Toulouse II Le Mirail (France)
PhD student of the University of Wuppertal (Germany)
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Abstract
In the second published part of the interview questions about the future of phenomenology as loyal to transcendental project of Husserl and its interaction with philosophical and non-philosophical disciplines, academic form of phenomenology that impedes the dissociation with other lines of investigation, role of the practical problems in the future of phenomenology.

Key words
Politics, ethics, theory of action, gestalt psychology, phenomenological sociology.

Review of the International Conference
“Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics: Aspects of Interaction-2012”
22–25 May 2012, Saint-Petersburg
(O. Prozorov)
170-175
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Prozorov Oleg
PhD in Language Sciences received from the University Paris X Nanterre
Leading Specialist of the Laboratory of Algebra and Number Theory, St. Petersburg Departement of V.A. Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Abstract
The conference was a realization of a long-overdue need of a broad dialogue of representatives of natural sciences and the Arts in relation to the growing mathematization of scientific knowledge. It is essential for the conference that such interaction of mathematics with philosophy and/or linguistics, which shows that “inconceivable effectiveness of mathematics” shows itself also in such Arts as philosophy and linguistics.

Key words
Mathematics, language, logics, semantics, syntax, logic of Kant.

Review of the International Conference
History of Philosophy in a Social and Cultural Context — II
24–25 December 2012, RSHU, Moscow
(А. Patkul)
176-193
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Author
Patkul Andrei
PhD in Philosophy
Senior lecturer of the Department of Ontology and Epistemology, Institute of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University
199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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Abstract
Thematic variety of report at this conference was kept within the declared boundaries of correlation of philosophy with the social context, in which it solely exists, quite rigidly. One of the speakers formulated several theses concerning interference of philosophy and social context: conscious suspension of social-cultural context in the interpretation of the tradition is not productive, socially meaningful context of the thought is always differentiated, there is always a “motivational complex” in the connection of semantic realties.

Key words
Philosophy, social-cultural context, historicity, ecstatic sociality.

 

IV. BOOK REVIEWS

Shaun Gallagher, Daniel Schmicking (editors)
Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science. Springer, 2010
(F. Stanzhevskiy)
194-200
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Stanzhevskiy Fedor
Research worker at the Centre for Phenomenology and Hermeneutics of the Institute of Philosophy at the St. Petersburg State University
199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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Abstract
Guide to the phenomenology and cognitive science investigates the interaction between these two fields of research. In particular, issues of interrelationship between phenomenology and experimental cognitive science, problems of consciousness and emotions, corporeality and itersubjectivity, perception and action, language and sense are considered. In addition, proposals on the practical application of phenomenology (in psychophysics and neurophysiology) in relation to the research of all kinds of mental pathologies are analyzed.

Key words
Naturalistic setting, phenomenology, cognitive science, subjective experience, neurophenomenology.

“Ways are not Labor”. On the Tenth Anniversary of Publishing the Heidegger Almanac.
(Heidegger-Jahrbuch. Freiburg/München, Verlag Karl Alber 2004–2012. Herausgegeben von Denker A. und Zaborowski H.)
(N. Brosova)
201-207
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Brosova Natalia
DSc in Philosophy
Professor of the Department of Cultural and Political Research, National Research University “Belgorod State University”
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Abstract
“Heideggerian annual” (Heidegger-Jahrbuch) has its own specificity in its thematic selections of researches. The annual incarnates a number of aims: first, it provides a forum for international scientific critique of Heidegger’s philosophy and, secondly, discovers research perspectives related to the possibility of publication of new manuscripts or biographical documents.

Key words
Handbook, key theme, inaccessible sources, letters, reviews.

Chernavin Georgy
Transcendental Archeology — Ontology — Metaphysics. Methodological Alternatives in Husserl’s Phenomenological Philosophy.
Libri Virides 7, Nordhausen: T. Bautz, 2011
(D. Kononets)
208-213
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Kononets Dar'ya
MA student of the Erasmus Mundus Europhilosophie in University of Bonn
MA student of the Charles University in Prague and University of Wuppertal
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Abstract
In the book, which is a result of his magister studies, G. Chernayin develops alternative methodological projects: “archeology of consciousness”, “ontology of the world of experience” and “metaphysics of primordial facticity”, presented as sketches in late Husserl’s manuscripts. In the monograph author brings forward a thesis, according to which an application of different methodological alternatives is needed in order to fully accomplish a phenomenological research, which in the course of study reveal their complementarity.

Key words
Mediated obviousness, description delay, boundaries of description, passive motivation, coordination of experience.

 

V. EVENTS

Announce of the Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind Held by Dan Zahavi at the Center for Subjectivity Research at the Copenhagen University
(Copenhagen, Denmark, 12–16 August 2013)
214-215
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Announce of the III International Conference “The World of Man: a Normative Dimension — 3: Rationality and Legitimacy”
(Saratov, Russia, 13–15 June 2013)
216-217
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Announce of the International Conference on the Problems of Philosophy and Methodology of Research in Human Sciences: “Human Sciences and (or) Humanities Knowledge”
(Odessa, Ukraine, 30–31 May 2013)
218-219
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Announce of the International Conference on Phenomenology in Cologne
(Cologne, Germany, 25–28 September 2013)
220
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Announce of the International Conference “Naturalistic Approaches to Consciousness”
(Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 24–25 May 2013)
221-222
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Obituary 223-224
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