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These lines from “The Doctrine of the Point of View” by Jose Ortega y Gasset, the fragment devoted to the ever-existing antinomy between life and culture and their interpretations from the rationalistic and relativistic view points, are the perfect opening for the present paper as they capture the sense and the mood of the philosophical endeavor taken upon by Anna-Teresa Tymienicka in Poetica nova and Book 3 of Logos and Life: The Passions of the Soul and the Elements into Onto-Poiesis of Culture. In short it could be summarized as the inquiry into phenomenology of the poetical with a special emphasis on literature as the prima facie human creative activity to be approached by the means of the phenomenological description. The description in turn is centered around the conception of mimesis, based upon the phenomenology of life, as the creative self-projection into the intersubjective life-world. The present paper falls into four subsequent parts: the prelude — stating the problem and its actuality in our complex and somewhat chaotic intellectual environment; the interlude — the philosophical conceptualization (with some historical references) of mimesis, mimetical action, and the three orders of mimesis; the theme — mimesis as self-projection; and the postlude.
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Arthur C. Danto, After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997), p. 35.
Ibid., p. 36.
Richard J. Bernstein, American Pragmatism: The Conflict of Narratives in Rorty and Pragmatism. The Philosopher Responds to His Critics, ed. H. J. Saatkamp, Jr. (Nashville & London: Vanderbilt University Press, 1995), p. 54.
Harold Bloom, Agon. Towards a Theory of Revisionism (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 18.
The Confessions of St. Augustine (New York, Toronto: New American Library, 1963), p. 273.
The Derridean mode of narration, i. e. the erasure of difference between philosophy and literary criticism, has been put under critical reflection by Jurgen Habermas. Despite the fact that the two fields have a strong family resemblance in their function to translate the contents of their respective expert cultures into everyday linguistic practices, and in their rhetorical expressions, it doesn’t go further than that. Habermas writes: “If, following Derrida’s recommendation, philosophical thinking were to be relieved of the duty of solving problems and made to assume the function of literary criticism, it would be robbed not merely of its seriousness, but also of its productivity and capacity for achievement. Conversely, the literary-critical capacity for judgment loses its potency when, as envisioned by Derrida’s disciples in literature departments, it switches from appropriating the content of aesthetic experience into a critique of metaphysics. The false assimilation of one enterprise to the other robs both of their substance.” — Jurgen Habermas, “On The Distinction between Poetic and Communicative Uses of Language” in On the Pragmatics of Communication (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1998), pp. 398–399.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Logos and Life: The Passions of the Soul and the Elements in the Onto-Poiesis of Culture, Book 3 (Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990), p. 13., hereafter The Passions of the Soul and the Elements in the Onto-Poiesis of Culture.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Poetica Nova: The Creative Crucibles of Human Existence and of Art, Part I, The Poetics of Literature (Dordrecht, Boston, London, D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1982), p. 18., hereafter Poetica Nova.
Paul Ricoeur, Time and Narrative, translation of Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer, vol. 2 (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1985).
Aristotle, Poetics (London: J. M. Dent & Sons / New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc., 1949), p. 8.
Ibid., p. 15.
Plato’s Republic (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1974), p. 245.
Erich Auerbach, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1953).
Ibid, p. 6.
Logos and Life, p. 20
Edmund Husserl. Experience and Judgment (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973), p. 341.
Ibid., pp. 342–343.
Poetica Nova, p. 6.
Ibid., p. 65.
The Passions of the Soul and the Elements in the Onto-Poiesis of Culture, pp. 17–18.
Poetica Nova, p. 73.
Ibid., p. 9.
Ibid., p. 18.
Ibid., p. 20.
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Vevere, V. (2004). Phenomenology of the Poetical. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Does the World Exist?. Analecta Husserliana, vol 79. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0047-5_32
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