Roman Ingarden and His Times
Synopsis
The papers collected in this volume vividly reflect the strikingly wide range of interests characterizing current research in phenomenology inspired by Roman Ingarden. One of Husserl’s closest and most devoted students, and at the same time one of his earliest and sharpest critics, Ingarden himself explored numerous fields of philosophy in considerable depth. While he remains best known for his groundbreaking work in aesthetics, ontology, and metaphysics, he also dealt extensively in ethics, epistemology, philosophical anthropology, and cognitive science, and his work was characterized throughout by a deep and abiding interest in the sciences and an unwavering respect for painstakingly thorough logical investigation. Issues from all of these areas of study provide the topics dealt with by the authors contributing to this volume. Several authors focus explicitly on historical matters, often casting surprising new light on the development of early phenomenology in general and of Ingarden’s own ‘realist’ phenomenology in particular. Other authors have concentrated instead on specific areas or particular topics of long-standing interest, such as the aesthetic experience, the philosophy of music, and artistic creation, while others have explored the relevance of Ingarden’s ontological and anthropological analyses to current research into everything from the interpretation of texts to the study of technological posthumanization. With contributions from both established experts and young scholars, this collection brings together three generations of researchers who share the same basic philosophical goals and methodology, yet exhibit noticeably distinct styles, making this collection not only accessible and topical but also unusually lively.
Chapters
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Ingarden and the “Layered” Anthropologies of His Times .......... 7
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Innards of Ingarden. Secretion, Permeation & Physiology of Time .......... 25
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Roman Ingarden and Edmund Husserl. Idealism, Identity, and Relativism .......... 43
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On the Difficult Academic and Personal Relationship of Roman Ingarden and Kazimierz Twardowski .......... 63
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Situated Freedom. Thoughts on its Importance, Variability and Malleability .......... 81
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Husserl’s “Idealism”. Intentional Externalist Adverbialism and Epistemological Disjunctivism .......... 93
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Ingarden’s Systems-Theoretical Philosophical Anthropology as a Tool for Analyzing the Technological Posthumanization of Persons and Societies .......... 109
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Phenomenology and Physics. Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) .......... 127
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From “Unbestimmtstellen” to “Leerstellen” and “campo di possibilità interpretative”. How Current is Ingarden’s Theory of Literature? .......... 143
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Music in the Phenomenology of Roman Ingarden and Alfred Schutz .......... 159
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The Semiotic Foundation of Ingarden’s Analysis of Music .......... 173
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Artistic Creation in Ingarden’s Thought .......... 191
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Roman Ingarden’s Dramatic Pursuit of Philosophical Truth .......... 213
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Roman Ingarden’s Theory of Aesthetic Experience. From Idea to Experience and Back .......... 223
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Ingarden and the Quandary of Musical Ontology .......... 239
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Philosophical Significance of the Lebenswelt. An Analytical Approach and a Defence of Naturalism .......... 255
