scholarly journals Get Messed Up: Intentionality, Butoh and Freedom in Plasma

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 374-392
Author(s):  
Sondra Fraleigh

Nature relative to subjectivity is an under theorized area of performance philosophy, one that we ignore at our peril. There is such a thing as nature. It encompasses all that humans are not, and suffuses all that we are and do. It is not merely a social or cultural construction, as we consider in this essay. In order to speak more definitively of nature and the body, we employ the phenomenology of Paul Ricoeur and reach back to the lifeworld (lebenswelt) philosophy of Edmund Husserl. Some read Husserl as an essentialist, but there are other readings, such as the one developed here. One of Ricoeur’s major works, Freedom and Nature: the Voluntary and the Involuntary, concerns motives and values at the organic level, studying how habits inform individual habitus and become embodied as nature in flux. Accordingly, this essay explores subjectivity, intentionality and nature in performance using examples from butoh relative to metamorphosis, a ubiquitous process in the rhythms and multi-tiered rhizomes of nature. Through Sartre and Ricoeur, the text also considers lived values of freedom relative to intention. In this light, readers are invited to explore their own porousness and evaporations via Freedom in Plasma, a butoh to do at the end of the essay.

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-66
Author(s):  
Josef Řídký

During the past fifty years, a dispute over the nature of historical discourse has taken place with the narrativist approach, arguing for the dominance of narration in history, on the one hand, and professional historians defending historiography's will to tell the truth, on the other. Paul Ricoeur entered the discussion with his work Time and Narrative where he offered an inventive response. According to him, both narration and scientific explication are essential to historical discourse. To support his statement, he introduces terms such as ‘a third time,‘ ‘a quasi-narration’ or ‘a historical consciousness.’ Thus, he shifts attention from narration to time. These terms can prove their usefulness when interpreting historical works. In the rest of the article, we aim to carry out such an interpretation on the example of Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama. In a Ricœurian perspective, Schama's book reveals its deep time significance.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-166
Author(s):  
Fagner Veloso Silva Silva

Resumo: O ensino da disciplina de Filosofia constitui no exercício/atividade filosófica na sala de aula, pois através desta atividade buscar-se-á criar, inventar, reinventar e produzir novos saberes e ações que se configurem como uma experiência filosófica. A experiência do filosofar proporciona uma maior flexibilidade entre o pensar e o agir, tendo como finalidade a constituição do si do alunado. Como praticamente a aula de Filosofia no Ensino Médio consiste numa aula expositiva, a relação entre professor e o aluno, entre aquele que “explica” e aquele que “compreende” sugere a busca de algo em comum: interpretar o texto. Por certo, o primeiro e mais elementar trabalho de interpretação é captar aquilo que o autor se propôs ao escrever determinado texto. Por esta razão buscamos investigar quais são as contribuições de uma hermenêutica no Ensino Médio, tendo como finalidade a busca de uma “ferramenta” (hermenêutica) que o professor possa oferecer para seu alunado, proporcionando-lhes um meio de compreender a eles mesmos e o mundo em que estão inseridos, o papel da hermenêutica e sua contribuição para a vida dos alunos é a de auxiliá-los na compreensão da realidade que eles vivenciam, para que possam desenvolver uma melhor vivência em sociedade. Palavras-chave: Apropriação. Filosofar. Hermenêutica. Mundo do Texto. Abstract: The teaching of the discipline of Philosophy constitutes in the exercise/philosophical activity in the classroom, because through this activity will seek to create, invent, reinvent and produce new knowledge and actions that are configured as a philosophical experience. The experience of philosophizing provides a greater flexibility between thinking and acting, having as purpose the constitution of the student's self. As practically the Philosophy class in High School is an expositive class, the relationship between teacher and student, between the one who "explains" and the one who "understands" suggests the search for something in common: to interpret the text. Of course, the first and most elementary work of interpretation is to capture what the author proposed in writing a particular text. For this reason we seek to investigate the contributions of a hermeneutics in High School, aiming at the search for a "tool" (hermeneutics) that the teacher can offer to his / her student, providing them with a way to understand themselves and the the role of hermeneutics and their contribution to students' lives is to help them understand the reality they experience, so that they can develop a better experience in society. Keywords: Appropriation. To philosophize. Hermeneutics. World of Text.   REFERÊNCIAS GENTIL, Hélio Salles. Historicidade e compreensão das narrativas de ficção a partir da hermenêutica de Paul Ricoeur. In. PAULA, Adna Candido de; SPERBER, Frankl(Organizadoras). Teoria literária e hermenêutica Ricoeuriana: um diálogo possível. Dourados, MS: UFGD, 2011, p. 177-193. GRODIN, Jean. Qué es la hermenéutica? Tradução de Antoni Martinez Riu. Barcelona: Editora Herder, 2008. KAMESAR, Adam. Biblical Interpretation in Philo. In. KAMESAR, Adam. (org.). The Cambridge Companion to Philo. Cambridge: Editora University Press, 2009, p. 65-91. ORÍGENES. Tratado sobre os princípios. São Paulo: Paulus, 2012. RICŒUR, Paul. O si-mesmo como outro. São Paulo: Editora WMF Marins Fontes, 2014. RICŒUR, Paul. O conflito das interpretações: ensaios de hermenêutica. Rio de Janeiro: Imago, 1978. RICŒUR, Paul. El discurso de la acción. 2ª ed. Madrid: Cátedra, 1988. RICŒUR, Paul. Teoria da interpretação: o discurso e o excesso de significação. Lisboa: Edições 70, 2000. RICŒUR, Paul. Del texto a la acción: ensayos de hermenêutica II. Editora: Fondo de Cultura Económica. México, 2002. RICŒUR, Paul. Hermeneutica e acción: de la hermenêutica del texto la hermenêutica de la acción. Buenos Aires: Editora Prometeo, 2008. RICŒUR, Paul. Historia y narratividad. Barcelona: Editora Paidós, 1999. RICOEUR, Paul. The Text as Dynamic Identity. In: VALDÉS, Mario J.; MILLER, Owen J. (eds.). Identity of the Literary Text. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. 175-186. RICŒUR, Paul. A hermenêutica bíblica. São Paulo: Editora Loyola, 2006. RICŒUR, Paul. Retórica, poética y hermenêutica. Madrid: Universidade autònoma de Madrid, 1997. SCHLEIERMACHER, Friedrich D.E. Hermenêutica: arte e técnica da interpretação. Petrópolis: Editora Vozes, 1999. UNESCO. Aprender a viver juntos: nós falhamos? Brasília: UNESCO, IBE, 2003. Disponivel em: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001313/131359por.pdf Acesso: 22/04/2018 THIOLLENT, Michel. Metodologia da pesquisa-ação. São Paulo: Editora Cortez, 1986.


2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dermot Moran

The phenomenology of Edmund Husserl had a permanent and profound impact on the philosophical formation of Paul Ricoeur. One could truly say, paraphrasing Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s brilliant 1959 essay ‘The Philosopher and his Shadow’,that Husserl is the philosopher in whose shadow Ricoeur, like Merleau-Ponty, also stands, the thinker to whom he constantly returns. Husserl is Ricoeur’s philosopher of reflection, par excellence. Indeed, Ricoeur always invokes Husserl when he is discussing a paradigmatic instance of contemporary philosophy of ‘reflection’ and also of  descriptive, ‘eidetic’ phenomenology. Indeed, I shall argue in this chapter that Husserl’s influence on Ricoeur was decisive and provided an eidetic, descriptive methodology which is permanently in play, even when it has to be concretized and mediated by hermeneutics, as Ricoeur proposes after 1960.


Author(s):  
Óscar Del Castillo Sánchez

<p>La Nueva Galería Estatal de Stuttgart, obra de James Stirling, propone una diversidad de itinerarios caracterizados por su imprevisibilidad, por su fragmentación, por la continua contradicción de las expectativas del visitante. La temporalidad que se desprende de la experiencia de esta arquitectura es la de un tiempo discontinuo, azaroso, incierto, acorde con nuestra condición contemporánea. El examen de esta obra desde los planteamientos filosóficos de Edmund Husserl o Paul Ricoeur arroja nueva luz acerca de estas cuestiones.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Ocir de Paula Andreata

O problema do mal se apresenta como um grande desafio ao saber humano, principalmente à teologia como ciência do espírito, dado a abrangência de sua manifestação nas diversas dimensões da vida, na complexidade de sua compreensão e nas ameaças ao cuidado do ser. As circunstâncias enfrentadas na existência no mundo, que trazem à consciência humana o problema do mal, manifestam um mal-estar no ser e tocam na questão do sentido e na responsabilidade moral. A atual pandemia do coronavírus trouxe um mal-estar ao ser nestes tempos que desafia à compreensão do sentido da vida. Neste texto refletimos sobre o mal-estar da pandemia, seus possíveis reflexos sobre o sentido existencial do ser e buscamos um apoio teológico ao seu enfrentamento. Nossa reflexão parte da consideração da fragilidade do ser humano em face à pandemia, a partir de dados da pandemia obtidos de informações da imprensa e da Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS). Em seguida a compreensão da situação atual toca na questão do sentido da vida e da responsabilidade moral, sob a ótica ontológica de tradição aristotélica e fenomenológica de Franz Brentano e Edmundo Husserl, e da filosofia existencial tal como em Kierkegaard, Paul Ricoeur e Albert Camus. Depois, com apoio em alguns textos bíblicos e sob uma hermenêutica teológica, busca-se a compreensão de uma forma de transcendência espiritual ao atual mal-estar. Finalmente, a reflexão objetiva apontar para uma compreensão mais ampla e profunda de saúde e vida. AbstractThe problem of evil is presented as a major challenge to human knowledge, especially of the theology spirit of science, given the scope of its manifestation in the various dimensions of life, the complexity of their understanding and threats to the care of the self. The circumstances faced in existence in the world, which bring the problem of evil to human consciousness, manifest a malaise in being and touch on the question of meaning and moral responsibility. The current pandemic of the coronavirus has brought a malaise to being in these times that defies the understanding of the meaning of life. In this text we reflect on the malaise of the pandemic, its possible reflections on the existential sense of being and we seek theological support for its confrontation. Our reflection starts from considering the fragility of the human being in the face of the pandemic, based on data from the pandemic obtained from information from the press and the World Health Organization (WHO). Then the understanding of the current situation touches on the question of the meaning of life and moral responsibility, under the ontological perspective of Aristotelian and phenomenological tradition of Franz Brentano and Edmund Husserl, and of existential philosophy as in Kierkegaard, Paul Ricoeur and Albert Camus. Then, with support in some biblical texts and under a theological hermeneutics, an attempt is made to understand a form of spiritual transcendence to the present malaise. Finally, the objective reflection points to a broader and deeper understanding of health and life.


Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Martínez Martínez

A lo largo de la historia de la filosofía, el problema del mal ha sido enfocado o desde un punto de vista moralizante o desde un punto de vista metafísico, que difícilmente puede dar respuesta a la pregunta por el origen del mal radical en el hombre. Partiendo de la distinción entre mal sufrido y mal cometido o mal moral —que establece Paul Ricoeur—, se tratará de mostrar que el mal sufrido realmente no es un mal. Por su parte, la experiencia genuina del mal sufrido que se concreta en la pregunta al aire del justo sufriente nos permitirá, por un lado, deslindar las concepciones de sufrimiento y mal mediante el uso del concepto dolor, y por otro lado, una revisión antropológica del problema del mal, que cuadra perfectamente con la línea de propuesta de Paul Ricoeur, cuya teoría acerca de la experiencia del mal será comentada y ampliada desde un antropología trascendental, no desde una metafísica, ni desde la perspectiva simbólica de Ricoeur.Throughout the history of philosophy the problem of evil has been examined either from a moral or a metaphysical point of view, neither of which can answer the question of the radical origin of evil in human life. By distinguishing between suffered evil and committed or moral evil —a distinction that Paul Ricoeur established— we will try to show that suffered evil is not really an evil. On the one hand, the genuine experience of suffered evil, which takes form in the questions of the just man who suffers, will allow us to make a distinction between suffering and evil through the concept of pain. On the other hand, it will also help us to conduct an anthropologic review of the problem of evil. This approach fits perfectly with Paul Ricoeur’s line of thought, since his theory about the experience of evil will be studied and delved into through a transcendental anthropology, not from a metaphysical approach, and not from Ricoeur’s symbolic perspective.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Mailson Fontes De Carvalho ◽  
Maria Rosilene Cândido Moreira

Objetivo: Considerando a acentuada interferência que as doenças crônicas provocam na vida de seus portadores, buscou-se elucidar as transformações impulsionadas pela doença renal crônica na realidade de jovens em tratamento dialítico. Metodologia: Trata-se de um estudo fenomenológico-hermenêutico, realizado com cinco jovens que efetuam terapia dialítica em um serviço de referência em nefrologia do centro-sul do Piauí, com idades entre 18 e 24 anos, analisado sob os preceitos da Teoria da Interpretação proposta por Paul Ricoeur. A pesquisa aprovada pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da UFPI mediante CAAE nº 0262.0.000-10. Resultados: Obteve-se três dimensões para as transformações ocorridas nos entrevistados: Transformações no Corpo, onde aparecem o estigma da fístula e o dilema do adolescer com a doença; Transformações na Mente, em que se destacam pensamentos, sentimentos, incertezas e confusões mentais afetadas também pelo seu estado; e Transformações no Mundo, onde afloram as restrições impostas pela doença e alterações de comportamento e hábitos deste sujeito no seu meio de vida. Considerações finais: O estudo possibilitou elucidações acerca das transformações advindas da doença crônica, no âmbito não somente corporal, mas psíquico e social, necessários à compreensão e estímulo ao enfrentamento da patologia e seu tratamento. Descritores: Doença Renal. Comportamento do adolescente. Desenvolvimento do adolescente.


2020 ◽  
pp. 427-451
Author(s):  
Jarosław Sobkowiak

e concept of the subjectivity of a person presented in this article has shownthat man as a subject appears in constant references and relations in which hisexistence is embedded. On the one hand, it escapes the determinism of nature,on the other hand, it reveals a certain crack between its nature and action. isleads to the conclusion that even if a person is characterised by individuality, itis not a separate existence. It seems justified to return to the question of whatmakes a person, in spite of both external and internal variability; they remain thesame or otherwise what builds and what destroys the subjectivity of the person?e question thus posed reveals the first threat to human subjectivity whichis the fact of the existence of evil. For it is not only something external to manbut also something that makes man both the “place” of the appearance of evil and responsible for evilB8. While staying in Ricoeur’s philosophy characterisedby a dialectical movement one can already see in the language discussing evila threat to certain “deposits of hope” present in his thoughtB<. For the religiouslanguage to which Ricoeur ultimately reduces the problem of evil is the languageof hope and eschatology. Freedom also takes on a new meaning in this context.It is no longer just something that has been enslaved but above all somethingthat is a “desire for the possible.” A possible freedom is the Resurrection. In thisperspective, even evil and suffering can find their ultimate meaning, and thesubjective character of morality does not threaten to fall into subjectivism.Moreover, it is in the name of such subjectivism that morality demands for thesubject this “otherness,” the hope that comes from the Resurrection.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-89
Author(s):  
Guilhem Causse

In Fallible man, Ricœur discovers a faille (fault, breach, rift) in the heart of man. Due to this faille, man is fragile: he has to mediate between himself and the world. This mediation puts man at risk of losing himself. Thus, fragile man is also fallible. In Oneself as Another, Ricœur returns to this faille that passes through the heart of the self, between idem and ipse, giving access to the alter. This image, the faille, guides Ricœur in each of these two texts. It gives us access to their continuity but also to the gap that separates one from the other. But if this image has inspired Ricœur, it also gives us the opportunity to criticize his work. Re-reading the Symbolism of Evil, we will highlight a dimension of man little explored by Ricœur and that our current situation pushes us to rediscover: the body and gesture.


1970 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-160
Author(s):  
Jérôme de Gramont

Every reader of Ricœur knows that hermeneutics endeavors to answer the aporiae of historical phenomenology. Hence arises the need to return to those aporiae and those answers. On the one hand, phenomenology, born with the maxim of going “directly to things themselves,” is confronted with the incessant evasion of the thing itself and with its dreams of presence being thereby shattered. This reversal should not be blamed on the failings of this or that thinker, but attributed to the very destiny of phenomenology itself. On the other hand, Ricœurian hermeneutics takes note of a gap (the very remoteness of the thing itself), and of a necessary return (to the thing of the text). Thus, there is nothing for thought itself to grieve over with respect to this enterprise. However, while the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, faced with the same difficulties, orients itself towards political philosophy, the hermeneutics of Ricœur rather seeks to lead us to a philosophy of religion. This article hypothesizes that, in spite of the formula (inherited from Thévenaz) of a “philosophy without an absolute,” the thought of Ricœur heads in fair measure towards the Absolute, and that ontology is not the only name of the Promised Land.


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