Roman Ingarden's Philosophy of Literature

A Phenomenological Account
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-35712-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 313, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 317 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy, Literature, and Politics

In Roman Ingarden’s Philosophy of Literature Wojciech Chojna discusses Ingarden’s theory of literary works and develops a phenomenological account of identity which accommodates differences in interpretations and value judgments without succumbing to relativism. The latter is overcome not through falling back on essentialism but from within relativism.

Literature offers us diverse experiences changing our perceptions of ourselves and the worlds we live in. Absolutism proclaiming unmitigated access to the meaning of literary texts is intolerant of differences and leads to violence in life. Conversely, relativism, in the illusory spirit of radical tolerance, turns meanings and values into historically contingent, incompatible interpretations, where communication and reconciliation is impossible, thus justifying ideological conflicts and violence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chojna, Wojciech

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Kulturphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
Ingarden’s Relevance Today

1 Introduction to the Concept of Identity
Some Traditional Approaches
Ingarden’s General Ontology

2 Nature and Identity of a Literary Work in American Aesthetics
Nelson Goodman’s Syntactical Identity
Richard Wolheim’s Amendment
Psychologism
Semantic Accounts
Joseph Margolis’s Culturally Emergent Objects

3 Phenomenological Concept of Identity
Identity of a Perceptual Object
The Concept of Intentionality
The Concept of Constitution
Ideality and Identity of the Objectivities of Understanding
Husserl’s Theory of Meaning
Ingarden’s Objections to Husserl’s Transcendental Idealism
Hermeneutic Challenges against the Possibility of Transcendental Phenomenology

4 Literary Work as a Schematic Structure
The Notion of a ‘Purely Intentional Object’
Schematism
Structure of a Literary Work of Art
The Stratum of Linguistic Sound Formations
The Stratum of Meanings
Meanings of Sentences
The Stratum of Presented Objects
The Stratum of Schematized Aspects
Objections to Ingarden’s Conception of the Four Strata of Literary Work
The Order of Sequence of Parts
Quasi-judgments

5 Aesthetic Experience and Life of a Literary Work of Art
Aesthetic Experience
Problems Pertaining to Aesthetic Experience
Pre-aesthetic Cognition of a Literary Work of Art
Cognition of an Aesthetic Object
The Work and Its Concretizations
‘Life’ of a Literary Work of Art

6 Values of Literary Work of Art
Artistic and Aesthetic Values
The Stratum of Sounds and Its Function in the Constitution of Aesthetic Qualities
The Stratum of Meanings and Its Function in the Constitution of Aesthetic Qualities
De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum
Metaphysical Qualities
Poetry as a Means of Cognition

7 The Identity of a Literary Work of Art
Identity of Sounds
Identity of Meanings
Dialectics of Identity
Subjectivism, Relativism and Identity

Epilogue

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wojciech Chojna, Ph.D. (1992), Temple University, Professor, Pasco-Hernando State College, USA; published articles and translations on aesthetics and philosophy, including “Phenomenological Redescription of Violence” in Justice, Law and Violence (Temple University Press, 1991), “Philosophy and the Modern World” in the Kwartalnik Filozoficzny (2006, translation).