Phenomenology of the Object and Human Positioning: Human, Non-Human and Posthuman (Analecta Husserliana, 122)

Contents
Contributors
About the Editors
Part I: Homage to Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
	The Subject/Object Relationship According to the Phenomenology of Life of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka: Discovering the Metamorphic Logos of the Ontopoiesis of Life
		1 Introduction
		2 The Dualistic Phase of the Subject-Object Relationship
		3 Within Ontological Dualism and No Way Out
		4 Communicative Virtues of the Phenomenology of Life
			4.1 Life as the Objective Interweaving Between Human Condition and Nature
			4.2 Gaining with the Creative Context of Life Through the Creative Act of the Human Being
		5 The Unveiling of the Ontopoietic Logos of Life in Its Metaphysical Importance
		6 Conclusion
		References
	Otherness and the Case of the Animal-Human: Interrogating the Post-human from Tymieniecka’s Ontopoiesis Multilayered Organization of Life
		1 Introduction
		2 First Thesis: The Need to Deconstruct the Primacy of Anthropocentrism (Pars Destruens)
		3 Second Thesis: Animal Otherness Between Phenomenology of Life and Posthuman Studies
		4 Conclusions
		References
	The Poiesis of Thought
		1 Introduction
		2 The Framing of Ideas
		3 A Creative Motion
		4 The Spring of Eros
		5 The Shadow and Subtraction of Being
		6 The Poetic Anonymity
		7 Ontopoetics
		8 Art and Science
		9 A Prelogical Notion
		10 The Emergence of Language
		11 The Value of Abstraction
		12 Theory Implies Poetics
		13 Logos and Life
		14 Conclusion
		References
Part II: Transcendental Idealism: Investigation Continues
	Ecce Zarathustra: Nietzsche’s Answer to the Human
		References
	Phenomenology and Formal Ontology: A Theoretical Model of Max Scheler’s Early Phenomenology of Sense Perception
		1 Max Scheler’s Early Phenomenology of Sense Perception
		2 What Is Formal Ontology?
		3 A Theoretical Model of Max Scheler’s First Phenomenology of Perception
		References
	Puzzles in Phenomenology
		1 Preliminary Considerations
		2 Some (Onto-)Epistemological Puzzles
		3 Some (Epistemic-)Ontological Puzzles: Cognitivism or Emotivism?
			3.1 Can Subjectivism Be Minimized?
		4 More (Epistemic-)Ontological Puzzles: Cognitivism Reinforced
		5 Conclusion
		References
Part III: Politics/Social Issues/Question of Universality
	Freedom and the Human Positioning in the Lifeworld: The Transcendence-Immanence Contrast in Simone de Beauvoir’s Existentialist Feminism
		1 Defining the Nomenclature of Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy
			1.1 Life-Experience and the Philosophical Meanings: Phenomenology, Existentialism and Marxism
			1.2 Life-Experience and the Philosophical Meanings: Feminism
		2 Beauvoir’s Concept of Woman in the Nexus of Existentialist Feminism
		3 Beauvoir’s Concept of Woman’s Freedom in the Perspective of the Transcendence-Immanence Contrast
			3.1 Freedom from Immanence
			3.2 Freedom to Transcendence
		4 Conclusion
	Brave New World: A Confinement Between Mythical and Behaviourist World-Views
		1 The New World vis-à-vis the Old World
			1.1 What Would Political Thinkers Say?
		2 Can the Island of “Pala” Save the Old World’s John the Savage?
		3 Concluding Remarks
		References
	The Thing/Beast/Human Relationships in the Autobiographies of Camara Laye and Wole Soyinka
		References
Part IV: Art and the Question of Humanity
	The Force of Things Unknown
		1 Cosmic Alterity
		2 The World as Affective Sphere
		3 Waiting for Daylight with Arthur Gordon Pym
		4 Capitalizing Oceanic Alterity (The Gold Standard Destabilized)
		5 The Force of the Indeterminate
		6 The Force of Pan’s Libido: Hypersexual Alterity
		7 Polymorphic Alterity
		8 “Was ist der Mensch?”
		References
	Paul Klee’s Ad Parnassum and the Reworking of Consciousness
		References
	Transhuman and Posthuman in Popular Culture on the Basis of Miura Kentarō’s Berserk
		References
	The Work of Art as a Living System: A Deweyan Approach
		1 Introduction
		2 The Work of Art as Living System
		3 Emergence
		4 Organicism
		5 The Work of Art: A Unity in Diversity
		6 The Aesthetic Experience as a Whole
		7 The “Will” of Work of Art
		8 Expressiveness
		9 Conclusions
		References
Part V: Human/Beast/Object
	The Beast vs. Human
		References
	The Situation of Human Being in Nature According to Fedor Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann, and Robert Musil: A Paradoxical Builder, Self-Enhancing Being and Speaking-Animal
		1 Introduction
		2 Fedor Dostoyevsky’s Godly-Focused Perspective: Can a Paradoxical Builder Love Natural Beings?
		3 Thomas Mann’s Psychologically-Focused Perspective: How Could a Self-Enhancing Being Be a Champion of Life Processes?
		4 Robert Musil’s Naturally-Focused Perspective: Can a Speaking-Animal Overcome Its Natural Instincts?
		5 Conclusion
		References
	Objects and “Objects” in the Historical Narration of the Humanities and Jean Baudrillard’s Semiotical (Structuralist) Contribution
		References
	A Criticism of the Current Subjectivist Totemism in Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man
		1 Introduction
		2 The Sense of Animality
		3 The Sense of Human
		4 The Sense of Art
		5 Colophon
		References
Part VI: Human/Nature/Cosmos
	Towards a Hermeneutic of the Artificial
		References
	Apeiron Civilization: The Irruption of Infinity in Science and the Universe
		1 Human Progress: The Infinitization of Our Nearby Finite World
			1.1 The Analytic Principles of Our Finite Particular Senses
			1.2 Light Is Finite and Travels Empty Space in a Straight Line at the Constant Finite Speed c
			1.3 The Finiteness of the Speed of Light Generates Asymmetric Time Between Any Two Things a and b
			1.4 The Progressive Expansion of the Finite Universe Under a Unique Expansion Force
		2 The Cosmological Problem: Is Our Universe Limited or Unlimited?
			2.1 At the Utmost Limits of Distance the Universe Is Indeterminate and Complex
			2.2 From a Negative to a Positive Meaning of the Indeterminacy and Complexity of the Universe
			2.3 The Synthetic Principles of the Real Physical Universe
		3 The Theoretical Solution of the Cosmological Problem: The Synthetic Finite–Infinite Equivalence Principle
			3.1 The Finite-Infinite Equivalence Principle Governs the Limiting Boundary of the Universe
			3.2 The Reduction of the Infinite Sphere into an Indefinitely Expanding Euclidean Plane
			3.3 Do We Have an Infinite Brain that Physically Corresponds to Our Mental Faculty of Infinite Synthetic Reason?
		References
	Man as the Ambassador of the Cosmos: Henryk Skolimowski’s Concept
		1 Cosmism and Eco-Humanism
		2 Evolution Towards Divinity
		References