scholarly journals LISTENING: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PATH TOWARDS LETTING THINGS BE

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 212-231
Author(s):  
MAJA BJELICA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Constitutive Activity ◽  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
Acoustic Ecology ◽  
Life World ◽  
Multiple Voices ◽  
The World ◽  
Auditory Sense ◽  
Do So

The Western philosophical and scientific tradition was and still is based on rationalism, objectivity, truths that are all sought from the ocularcentric paradigm. Many thinkers, however, have been recognising this perspective to be exclusive towards the other senses, and therefore insufficient. Listening, as enabled by the auditory sense, has a potential for revealing a deeper sense of being in the world. In this article listening is presented as a possible way towards inhabiting our life-world and nonetheless “to let things be.” In order to do so, an interdisciplinary approach of research is adopted. First, the author offers some perspectives from the field of the ethics of listening, where the thoughts of Lisbeth Lipari, Luce Irigaray and others expose listening as an intersubjective gesture of encounter with the other in acceptance. Through his philosophy of listening, Jean-Luc Nancy, one of the crucial voices in this study, offers an explication of how listening can be the force of liberating sense and senses. Further on, an account on auditory phenomenology is offered, combining it with and stressing the importance of Husserl’s understanding of intersubjectivity. These perspectives are then enriched with echoes from acoustic ecology and its experiences of listening to the environment. The reverberations of multiple voices presented in this text allow for an understanding of listening as an intersubjective and mutually constitutive activity. As such, it involves a liberation of sense and allows for an openness to being and beings.

scholarly journals Essence and Mere Necessity

2018 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 309-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Leech
Keyword(s):  
Good Reason ◽  
The Other ◽  
De Re ◽  
The World ◽  
Do So

AbstractRecently, a debate has developed between those who claim that essence can be explained in terms ofde remodality (modalists), and those who claim thatde remodality can be explained in terms of essence (essentialists). The aim of this paper is to suggest that we should reassess. It is assumed that either necessity is to be accounted for in terms of essence, or that essence is to be accounted for in terms of necessity. I will argue that we should assume neither. I discuss what role these key notions – essence and necessity – can reasonably be thought to contribute to our understanding of the world, and argue that, given these roles, there is no good reason to think that we should give an account of one in terms of the other. I conclude: if we can adequately explainde remodality and essence at all, we should aim to do so separately.

Richard William Southern 1912–2001

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Murray
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Deep Thought ◽  
Life Work ◽  
Made In ◽  
Do So

People with a logical turn of mind say that the history of the world can be summarised in a sentence. A précis of mediaval historian Richard William Southern's work made in that spirit would identify two characteristics, one housed inside the other, and both quite apart from the question of its quality as a work of art. The first is his sympathy for a particular kind of medieval churchman, a kind who combined deep thought about faith with practical action. This characteristic fits inside another, touching Southern's historical vision as a whole. Its genesis is traceable to those few seconds in his teens when he ‘quarrelled’ with his father about the Renaissance. The intuition that moved him to do so became a historical fides quaerens intellectum. Reflection on Southern's life work leaves us with an example of the service an historian can perform for his contemporary world, as a truer self-perception seeps into the common consciousness by way of a lifetime of teaching and writing, spreading out through the world (all Southern's books were translated into one or more foreign language).

Alterity and the other person: the anatomy of recognition

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Stanghellini
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Natural Attitude ◽  
Life World ◽  
The World ◽  
As If

This chapter argues that another kind of teleology at play in human emotional experience is the desire for recognition. I long for the Other to appreciate me as I am rather than how I should be. Recognition entails five basic steps. First, I must acknowledge that the life-world of the other person is not like my own. Second, I need to grant the meaningfulness of the other person’s actions as embedded in the other person’s life-world. Third, I must learn to neutralize my natural attitude that would make me evaluate the other’s experience as if it took place in a world like my own. Fourth, I must try to reconstruct the existential structures of the world the other lives in. Fifth, I can finally attempt to understand the other’s experience as meaningfully situated in a world that is indelibly marked by the other person’s particular existence.

Human Life And World

1998 ◽  
pp. 222-227
Author(s):  
W. Kim Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Life World ◽  
Physical Demands ◽  
The World ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Living Being

I dispute the claim that the disclosure of the life-world by phenomenology is an accomplishment of 'permanent' significance. By briefly reviewing the meaning of the "world" and "life-world" in the writings of Husserl, Gurwitsch, Schutz-Luckmann, Ortega, Heidegger, Jonas, Straus, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, I show that they all treat the world, or rather the affairs which comprise it, as passively present whether viewed as a mental acquisition or as the "Other." But the meaning of the world-as that wherein are met physical demands upon us which must be satisfied if we are to continue living-cannot be considered either as a mental acquisition or as something that is "other" and over against us. A living being as living cannot fail to attend to the agency of the affairs of which the life-world consists, as well as one's own exploring and coping actions. If we are to really speak of life, then we must acknowledge the mutual and reciprocal activities of living beings and world.

Banner Blindness: The Irony of Attention Grabbing on the World Wide Web

1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 463-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Panero Benway
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Other ◽  
Controlled Conditions ◽  
The World ◽  
Web Designers ◽  
Do So ◽  
Banner Blindness

Web designers attempt to draw attention to important links by making them distinctive. However, when users are asked to find specific items, they often overlook these distinctive banners. The irony of “banner blindness” is that the user who really wants to find the information the designer has highlighted is not likely to do so. In the experiments reported here, banner blindness is reproduced under controlled conditions. Banners located higher on the page and therefore further from the other page links were missed more often than banners located lower on the page and closer to the other links. Banners were missed more often when located on pages containing links to categories than when located on pages with links to specific items. Users saw banners hardly at all when clicking a banner was not required to accomplish a task.

Unfolding

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Stanghellini
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Life World ◽  
Space Body ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
The World ◽  
Body Self

This chapter discusses how the world the Other lives in is other with respect to mine. What must be assumed is not analogy, but a ‘different normality’ (i.e. hetero-logy)—a norm that is valid within another framework of experience. Understanding another person requires reconstructing her framework of experience. A fortiori, understanding a patient’s symptom requires reconstructing the framework of experience in which it is embedded. Reconstructing the other’s framework of experience needs a preliminary deconstruction. This deconstruction is made through a phenomenological unfolding of the experiential characteristics of the life-world inhabited by the other person. We need to identify, beyond the symptoms that the Other manifests, the fundamental structures of his existence. The experience of time, space, body, self, and others, and their modifications, are indexes of the patient’s basic structures of subjectivity within which each single abnormal experience is situated.

scholarly journals Metafore sebstva u autobiografskom diskursu Vesne Parun

2016 ◽  
Vol XIV (2) ◽  
pp. 184-184
Author(s):  
Kornelija Kuvač-Levačić
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Human Personality ◽  
The World ◽  
Literary Device ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Symbolic Number ◽  
Do So

By using the concept of the Self as the human personality in its totality, as defined by Carl Gustav Jung and furthered by P. Ricoeur (the theory of narrative identity, the Self defined as an identity constructed by narrative configuration, the dialectics of the discovery of the other in one’s own Self and one’s own Self in the Other), this work will focus in the analysis of metaphors which express the Self of the auto-diegetic narrator as can be found in the autobiographical discourse of Vesna Parun. The corpus of this research is to be found in selected texts from her volume Noć za pakost. Moj život u 40 vreća (2001). From the first chapter of this volume [which consists of the following works of autobiography and essays: Poljubac života (1993), Do zalaska sunca hodajući za kamilicom (1958), Pod muškim kišobranom (1986)] the reader comes to realise that, for this author, the writing of autobiography is itself a problem of self-expression and that she had constantly deferred it, while, on the other hand, feeling a great compulsion from within to do so. This sense of paradox finds its reflection in some of the constitutive elements which can be found in her autobiographical discourse. In the relationship between literature and reality, which is something which the genre of autobiography questions in its own way, the author noticeably distances herself from the mere documentary transmission of factual information from her life. A reflection of this can be seen in the negation of a strict chronology of events and confessions, as she makes recourse to a technique which uses collage and appears fragmentary; furthermore, here prose here has a lyrical quality, negating "metaphor as a literary device" and transforming it into "literature as metaphor". The autobiographical prose of Vesna Parun is especially dense with metaphor, and it can be concluded that it expresses her Self. Attention is directed here to three metaphors in particular – the umbrella, which can be both "masculine" and "feminine", a map of the world, on the wall of every house in Vesna’s community, as well the sack, which is followed by the symbolic number 40, as many in which she could fill her life in. Besides the metaphors mentioned here, what will be proposed here is that in the autobiographical discourse of Vesna Parun literature itself is presented as metaphor of her Self, appearing to the reader as significantly (auto)meta-textual.

Irigaray, Luce (1930–)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Chanter
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Difference ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
International Recognition ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Other Woman ◽  
Partial View

Luce Irigaray holds doctorates in both linguistics and philosophy, and has practised as a psychoanalyst for many years. Author of over twenty books, she has established a reputation as a pre-eminent theorist of sexual difference – a term she would prefer to ‘feminist’. The latter carries with it the history of feminism as a struggle for equality, whereas Irigaray sees herself more as a feminist of difference, emphasizing the need to differentiate women from men over and above the need to establish parity between the sexes. Speculum de l’autre femme (1974) (Speculum of the Other Woman) (1985), the book that earned her international recognition, fuses philosophy with psychoanalysis, and employs a lyrical ‘mimesis’, or mimicry, that parodies and undercuts philosophical pretensions to universality. While adopting the standpoint of universality, objectivity and uniformity, the philosophical tradition in fact reflects a partial view of the world, one which is informed by those largely responsible for writing it: men. Without the material, maternal and nurturing succour provided by women as mothers and homemakers, men would not have had the freedom to reflect, the peace to think, or the time to write the philosophy that has shaped our culture. As such, women are suppressed and unacknowledged; femininity is the unthought ground of philosophy – philosophy’s other.

scholarly journals DOWSING, NANOTECHNOLOGIES AND PROSPECTS OF APPLIED AND FUNDAMENTAL GEOPHYSICS

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
В.Н. Шулейкин ◽  
А.Д. Жигалин
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
Gold Metal ◽  
Do So

Лозоходство и использование нанотехнологий разделяет более 4‑х тысяч лет. Можно ли сейчас сопоставлять эти две технологии, одну, буквально, «старую как мир», и другую, обращенную от дней сегодняшних в необозримое и пока неясное будущее. Секрет эффекта лозы до сих пор не раскрыт до конца. В статье обсуждаются различные взгляды на проблему – строгий геофизический, объясняющий наблюдаемые эффекты с позиций физического эксперимента; биофизический, основанный на представлении о человеке как о сенсоре, чувствительного к внешним полям, и сугубо индивидуального, «астрального». Возможно, «нанотехнологический» подход к решению задачи позволит теснее объединить различные представления и глубже проникнуть в природу вещей в обозримом будущем Dowsing and the use of nanotechnology divides more than 4 thousand years. Is it possible today to compare the two technologies: one is «ancient as the world» and the other facing away from the current days in a vast and yet uncertain future. Dowsers were able to find water, gold, metal ores and other minerals with the help of some form twigs (vines) or frames and pendulum. Vines effect secret has not yet been disclosed to the end. Perhaps the «nanotechnology» approach to the problem will do so in the foreseeable will-present

Among Lovers

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 99-124
Author(s):  
Liesbeth Schoonheim ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Person Following ◽  
The World ◽  
The Will ◽  
Positive Light ◽  
Do So

Both love and politics name relations, according to Arendt, in which a subject is constituted as a unique person. Following up on this suggestion, I explore how love gives rise to a conception of personhood that temporarily suspends the public judgments and social prejudices that reduce the other to their actions or to their social identity. I do so by tracing a similar movement in the various tropes of Arendt’s phenomenology of love: the retreat away from the collective world into the intimacy of love, followed by the necessary return to the world and the end of love. This exploration casts a new—and surprisingly positive—light on some key notions in Arendt’s thought, such as the body, the will, and life. However, Arendt disregards that love, as De Beauvoir argued, requires a constant effort in restraining our tendency to reduce the lover to their social identity.

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