Phenomenology to the Letter

Phenomenology to the Letter

Husserl and Literature

In: Textologie, 7

Edited by: Philippe P. Haensler, Kristina Mendicino and Rochelle Tobias

De Gruyter | 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110654585

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Regarding philosophical importance, Edmund Husserl is arguably "the" German export of the early twentieth century. In the wake of the linguistic turn(s) of the humanities, however, his claim to return to the "Sachen selbst" became metonymic for the neglect of language in Western philosophy. This view has been particularly influential in post-structural literary theory, which has never ceased to attack the supposed "logophobie" of phenomenology. "Phenomenology to the Letter. Husserl and Literature" challenges this verdict regarding the poetological and logical implications of Husserl’s work through a thorough re-examination of his writing in the context of literary theory, classical rhetoric, and modern art. At issue is an approach to phenomenology and literature that does not merely coordinate the two discourses but explores their mutual implication. Contributions to the volume attend to the interplay between phenomenology and literature (both fiction and poetry), experience and language, as well as images and embodiment. The volume is the first of its kind to chart a phenomenological approach to literature and literary approach to phenomenology. As such it stands poised to make a novel contribution to literary studies and philosophy.

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P. P. Haensler, University of Zurich, CH; K. Mendicino, Brown University, RI, USA; R. Tobias, Johns Hopkins University, MI, USA.

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Introduction Philippe P. Haensler, Kristina Mendicino and Rochelle Tobias Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
I. Rhetoric and Thought: The Language of Phenomenology
Husserl’s Image Worlds and the Language of Phenomenology Michael McGillen Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	23
Auch für Gott: Finitude, Phenomenology, and Anthropology Tarek R. Dika Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	45
“irgend etwas und irgend etwas”: Husserl’s Arithmetik and The Poetics of Epistemology Susan Morrow Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	61
Fort. The Germangled Words of Edmund Husserl and Walter Benjamin Philippe P. Haensler Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	85
II. Phenomenology and Incommensurability: Beyond Experience
Beyond Experience: Blanchot’s Challenge to Husserl’s Phenomenology of Time Jean-Sébastien Hardy Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	115
Absehen – Disregarding Literature (Husserl / Hofmannsthal / Benjamin) Henrik S. Wilberg Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	133
Drawing a Blank – Passive Voices in Beckett, Husserl, and the Stoics Kristina Mendicino Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	149
III. Phenomenology of the Image and the Text Corpus
Charles Olson: Phenomenologist, Objectivist, Particularist Stefanie Heine Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	183
Icon as Alter Ego? Husserl’s Fifth Cartesian Meditation and Icons of Mary in Chronicles of the Teutonic Order Claire Taylor Jones Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	201
Absolute Gegebenheit: Image as Aesthetic Urphänomen in Husserl and Rilke Thomas Pfau Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	227
IV. Fictional Truths: Phenomenology and Narrative
The Virtuous Philosopher and the Chameleon Poet: Husserl and Hofmannsthal Nicolas de Warren Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	263
“A Now Not toto caelo a Not-Now”: The “Origin” of Difference in Husserl, from Number to Literature Claudia Brodsky Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	283
Gregor Samsa and the Problem of Intersubjectivity Rochelle Tobias Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	309
Notes on Contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	331
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	333

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