LOGOS OF PHENOMENOLOGY AND PHENOMENOLOGYOF THE LOGOS. BOOK FIVE

ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA

THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH

VOLUME LXXXXII

Founder and Editor-in-Chief:

AN N A-TE R E S A TY M I E N I E C K A

The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning

Hanover, New Hampshire

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LOGOS OF PHENOMENOLOGYAND PHENOMENOLOGY

OF THE LOGOS. BOOK FIVE

Aesthetic Ciphering in Fine Arts, Literature and Aesthetics

The Creative Logos.

Edited byANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA

The World Phenomenology Institute, Hanover, NH, U.S.A.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii

THEMATIC INTRODUCTION

ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA / The Metamorphosis of theLogos of Life in Creative Experience: Treatise in a Nutshell xi

SECTION I

THE BRAINSTORM OF CREATIVE EXPERIENCE

PATRICIA TRUTTY-COOHILL / The Ontopoiesis of Leonardoda Vinci’s Brainstorm Drawings 3

PIERO TRUPIA / Phenomenology of the Countenance:Portraying the Soul, Staging a Lived Experience 13

ANTONIO DOMINGUEZ REY / Principios de ObjetividadPoetica 29

J. C. COUCEIRO-BUENO / Essential ‘‘Poiesis’’ 49

ELLEN J. BURNS / Musical Progeny: The Case of Music andPhenomenology 57

BRIAN GRASSOM / Art, Alterity and Logos: In the Spaces ofSeparation 67

JAMES P. WERNER / Logos, Rationale and Desire inConvergent Art Practices 79

SECTION II

THE WORK OF ART AND ITS EXPERIENTIAL RADIUS

ELGA FREIBERGA / Phenomenological Interpretation of theWork of Art: R. Ingarden, M. Dufrenne, P. Ricoeur 93

DAVID BRUBAKER / Painting from the Heart: Beauty, Mooreand Merleau-Ponty’s Wholes of Visibility 103

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MOLODKINA LJUDMILA / On Phenomenology of Memoryand Memorial (In Terms of Architectural and LandscapingCreations) 113

MADALINA DIACONU / Patina – Atmosphere – Aroma:Towards an Aesthetics of Fine Differences 131

MAO CHEN / The Persistence of Phenomenological Time:Reflections on Three Recent Chinese Films 149

LAWRENCE KIMMEL / Notes on the Art of Memory 157

ALEKSANDRA PAWLISZYN / The Truth of Suffering (Levinas)and the Truth Crystallized in the Work of Art 179

SECTION III

VARIOUS AESTHETIC RAYS IN LITERATURE

JENNIFER ANNA GOSETTI-FERENCEI / ArticulateSpontaneity and the Aesthetic Imagination 199

CALLEY A. HORNBUCKLE / Exploring Aesthetic Perceptionof the Real in Iris Murdoch’s T he Black Prince 221

REBECCA M. PAINTER / Fiction and the Growth of MoralConsciousness: Attention and Evil 235

JADWIGA SMITH / Phenomenology of Emotions: AurelKolnai’s On Disgust and Jacobean Drama 259

OSVALDO ROSSI / Light/Shadow: Lines for an AestheticReflection 275

RAYMOND J. WILSON III / A Phenomenological Theory ofLiterary Creativity: Ricoeur and Joyce 295

MICHEL DION / Basic Conditionings of the Inner andCorporeal Life: Representations from Two Major Novelistsof the 19th and 20th Century Literature (Dostoyevsky,Proust) 313

CHIEDOZIE OKORO / Phenomenology for WorldReconstruction 331

INDEX OF NAMES 357

APPENDIX / The Program of the Oxford Third WorldCongress 361

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Presenting to the scholarly public this collection, the fifth and last volumegathering the work from the Third World Congress of Phenomenology,‘‘Phenomenology World-Wide: Phenomenology of the Logos and theLogos of Phenomenology,’’ held in Oxford, August 15–21, 2004, I expressmy warm thanks to all those who helped to prepare and to carry outthis marvelous Conference. First of all it is the initiative of William J.Smith who brought us to Oxford, who with his wife Jadwiga and GaryBackhaus have also performed with expertise the task of the local arrange-ments that merits our appreciation. Professor Grahame Lock of Queen’sCollege and Matt Landrus from Wolfson College must be thanked fortheir valuable contribution to the local organization. Tadeusz Czarnik,my personal helper, cannot be forgotten.I wish to express special thanks to Jeff Hurlburt, our secretary, for his

assiduous and dedicated work in preparing this gathering. We are particu-larly pleased to see among the authors artists – bringing to this book aspecial flavor. The enthusiasm and expertise of the authors who joinedus from the entire world – forty countries – made this Congress an epoch-making phenomenology event.

A-T.T.

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A group of participants in front of Wadham College

THEMATIC INTRODUCTION

ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA

THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE LOGOS OF LIFE IN

CREATIVE EXPERIENCE

T reatise in a Nutshell

Is it necessary to bring once more to the fore the creative functioning ofthe human being, since it has been discussed for over three decades asthe central point of the new critique of reason in my phenomenology oflife and in the programs of the World Phenomenology Institute, publishedin the Analecta Husserliana?1 It is indeed necessary!The reasons are, first, that being engaged in any sector of the studiesconcerning reality in its origins and genesis, we have to bring out overand over again the human creative function to treat it adequately. Everyin depth inquiry concerning human beings and human reality will alwayscome back to human creative powers in order to clarify its status quo.Second, our emphasis upon the nature of the logos as the subject ofour five-book studies gathered from our Third World Congress at Oxford,brings human creativity to a quite particular focus which calls for newattention. Having so far unraveled the workings of human creativity fromits elemental ciphering of the human significance of life at its incipiententrance into the human orbit, up to its accomplishments in humanexemplary creative works,2 with the focus upon the genesis of reality andthe nature of human reason, we can now succinctly trace thegenesis/unfolding of the logos of life itself as, upon the wings of imaginatiocreatrix, it undergoes its own metamorphosis toward ascending to itsculminating Promethean heights.

1. TRACING THE GROWTH OF THE LOGOS OF LIFE FROM THE

‘‘LIVING AGENT’’ TO THE ‘‘CREATIVE SUBJECT’’

Along its progressive unfolding the living being is led by its logos towardthe establishment of the uniquely human reality, with its world of life,man’s inward universe and the striving toward the infinite. But in orderto perform this gigantic task of transformations, the logos of life itselfprogressively undergoes an essential intrinsic metamorphosis involvingits entire functional network. This intrinsic metamorphosis will be ourfocus now.

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As I have discussed elsewhere,3 the living beingness grows unfoldingfunctions through the impetus, forces and directions of the logos of lifefollowing its ontopoietic sequence of life’s self-individualizing project. Itgrows while each of the constructive segments of the logos refers back totheir common ‘‘trunk’’, to which all of the functions are tied by theirinnermost significance within the overall net of the ontopoietic sequencethat they incorporate, forming what I have called the ‘‘living agent’’. Theliving agent serves the ontopoietic constructive devices of the logos as avortex for its innumerable energies at work. With their growth in complex-ity, the living agent that coordinates them and controls their inward andoutward situation also develops from the rudimentary sensitivity to thefunctional ontopoietic progress the spheres of sensing, experiencing, com-municative and ‘‘manifesting’’ organs – like the brain – in order to processthem. The living agent is formed by receiving, gathering and then distrib-uting the innumerable functional segments into their appropriate con-structive places. In the functional midst it is also throwing links, buildingcooperative devices among them in orchestrating their operations; it alsoissues new links toward incorporating newly emerging processes into acommon pool. Its highest achievement in constructing such sentientorgans are referential links through which (in various degrees) they aimat an outside referent to fulfill or complete their needs and thus projectinto their circumambient world. Along these lines lies already a prototypeof the supremely significant factor which accounts for the constitution ofthe human world: the specifically human intentionality. But before humanintentionality unfolds into its specific realm, the living agent-subject hasto be transformed into a new sphere such that its control over theontopoietic workings of the logos loosens up and leaves a place for thenew factor of imaginatio creatrix entering, sua sponte, the game of life.4The logos of life is prompted always by the Imaginatio Creatrix which

with its forces and synergies inspires and carries along to their completioninnumerable virtualities with their exemplary/seminal propensities andpossibilities, trying to attune, to adjust each one’s applicability, first tothe available situation and then to perfect it. These forces and synergiesare mainly responsible for the wealth of our projects, ideas, tendenciesand their competitive display.These creative forces are not anonymous, nor are they issued directlyby the ontopoietic progress of individualizing life.5 Instead they proceedfrom the specifically outfitted human mind, crystallized within a humanperson, the final processor of the logos; however, this mind – and theperson – is inversely the product of the logos’s creative forces at work.

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2. THE TURN OF THE LOGOS WHILE CREATIVE IMAGINATION

ENTERS THE SCENE OF LIFE

Imaginatio creatrix emerging within the midst of the ontopoietic processof life marks a radical turning point in the orientation of life’s logos. Itdisplays, in fact, a galvanizing impact upon the logos of life involved inits ontopoietic patterns of differentiations and dynamism.First of all, entering into the workings of the vitally oriented logoicfunctions of the living agent it dissolves their tight intentional orientationtoward immediate performance of operations. Second, the imaginativewings lift the logos from the direct fitness-end-adjustment toward a varietyof selective virtualities. From this there is only one step to the deliberativelogos of the human mind with its own intellective intentionality.Partly partaking of the ontopoietic circuits of life’s unfolding and partlylifting itself with new intentional powers – having reached the intellectivelevel of forming the constitutive world of life according to its universalstandards – and expanding this constitutive proficiency through the delib-erating and judgmental powers of the mind, the mind itself (being ani-mated by the imaginative breath) becomes an instrument of promotingthe forces onwards: it becomes a creative human mind.The human mind assumes henceforth not only the role of the opera-tional vortex of the living being, and orchestrates the creatively inspiredfunctional system of logoic strings and dynamisms, but in it the logos oflife becomes – as mentioned above – crystallized in a unique type of self-awareness: the human person. It is the now creative logos which, asincarnated within the body/soul territory, stretches through the sphereswhich it constitutes: the human world, the human universe. By processingthe functional system within the human person, it also processes its owncreative metamorphosis within these dimensions of beingness itself.Thus we see how the logos of life, advancing from the original self-individualizing script going along with the differentiation of types in anevolutionary course, is progressively loosening its type of ordering withinthe living beingness itself in a liberating system: the human creative mind.Within the human creative mind the logos of life launches a challenge toitself; it puts in question the validity and validation of its own significance.The response to this challenge has to be given from within. In thischallenge lies the crucial achievement of the logos of life.

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3. THE CREATIVE VORTEX OF THE LOGOS’S METAMORPHOSIS OF

SENSE

Pointedly we open the studies of our volume with a ‘‘brainstorm’’ withinthe creative agent who in this occurrence is meant to be the artist at theincipient point at which he/she launches into the creative process aimingat the creation of a work of art.6 As I have described in detail earlier,7the creative yearnings burst forward in the midst of the habitual pursuitof living’s tasks and satisfactions, aiming at a radical revolt at the worldof life within the individual being, at everything that is familiar thereinand in which he/she sees his/her life inscribed. It is a yearning after an‘‘other world’’, an imaginary sphere in which everything would be‘‘different’’ and in which these yearnings could be satisfied. It is aninnermost urge to redeem the insufficiency, the pointlessness of everyday-ness which fails to indicate any escape from the repetitiveness of thetrivial course of life. The ‘‘brainstorm’’ is the initial outburst of this revoltagainst the limits of the hitherto valid significance of life with its horizons,within the creative human mind – person. Prompted from the inside bythe logoic turmoil, the creative agent seeks to find and manifest his ownversion of the real while it animates and brings forth into action all thedynamism and threads of the creative mind.The aspiring artist seeks in his/her artistic endeavor to find a new sense

of life, deeper, more authentic, more ‘‘true’’: better corresponding tohis/her longings than the one he is living in. The creatively engaged logosexplodes in a vertiginous interrogation seeking to reach beyond itself.Hence in the work of art we find the locus in which the radical metamor-phosis of the logos of life finds expression. In the exemplary work of art,we find indeed the creative logos of life reaching the peak of its metamor-phosis. Having challenged the validity of its hitherto accomplishedendeavors it emits a new and unprecedented significance of reality. Thisnew significance slowly enters into our experience of reality, and perme-ates it down to its elemental ciphering, transforming us in our existenceover and over again.

NOTES

1 Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, L ogos of L ife, Book I: Creative Experience and the Critique ofReason,Analecta Husserliana, Volume XXIV, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988,

and numerous collected volumes of the Analecta Husserliana.

2 Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, ‘‘The Human Condition within the Unity-of-Everything-there-is-alive and its logoic network’’, Analecta Husserliana, Volume LXXXIX, Dordrecht,

Springer, 2005.

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3 Ibid., p. xvi and footnotes.4 For the extensive work done in The World Phenomenology Institute and published in theAnalecta Husserliana for the vindication of the primacy of imagination, cf. A-T. Tymieniecka,

‘‘Theme: the Triumph of Imagination in the Critique of Reason’’, pp. xi–xxi, in Imaginatio

Creatrix – the Pivotal Force of the Genesis/Ontopoiesis of Human L ife and Reality, Analecta

Husserliana, Volume LXXXIII, Dordrecht, Kluwer, 2004.

5 Cf. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka. ‘‘Creative Forces and Formation – Life’s Creative Matrix’’,pp. xxiii–xxv, in T he Creative Matrix of the Origins – Dynamisms, Forces and the Shaping of

L ife, Book II, Analecta Husserliana, Volume LXXVII, 2002, and the afore-cited ‘‘The Human

Condition within the Unity-of-Everything-there-is-alive and its logoic network’’, Analecta

Husserliana, Volume LXXXIX, Dordrecht, Springer, 2005, p. xxix.

6 Cf. The study of Patricia Trutty-Coohill, in this volume, pp. . . .7 L ogos and L ife, Book 1, Creative Experience and the Critique of Reason, Part 1.

William Smith