M. HEIDEGGER’S METAPHYSICS OF FINITENESS: HISTORY AS THE SUBJECT AREA OF UNDERSTANDING

Статья ориентирована на анализ М. Хайдеггером предмета и специфики познавательных средств истории в перспективе предложенной им метафизики конечности. Показано, что обращение к этому проблемному полю явилось результатом его размышлений над взаимосвязью основоположений фундаментальной онтологии с обоснованием предмета и способа постижения истории. Учение Хайдеггера в этом ракурсе сопряжено, как показано в статье, с интенсивным диалогом с идеями В. Дильтея и Ф. Ницше. Дильтей является автором, позволившим Хайдеггеру переосмыслить в экзистенциальном ключе не только историчность Dasein, но и такие феномены как понимание и интерпретация, изначальная открытость смысла исторической традиции. Однако в отличие от Дильтея, утверждавшего плюрализм культурных миров и не принимавшего возможности их рассмотрения в горизонте диахронного единства, Хайдеггер полагал, что герменевтическая перспектива не является препятствием к поиску глобального смысла всемирной истории. Заимствуя у Ницше генеалогическую методологию, он критически пересматривая его видение истории сквозь призму становления нигилизма как забвения жизни. Всемирная история и современный культурный кризис, по его мнению, обретают объяснение в свете разработанного им видения нигилистического забвения Бытия, порожденного европейской метафизической традицией, завершением которой выступает метафизика воли Ницше. The article is focused on M. Heidegger's analysis of the field and the cognitive means of history in the perspective of the metaphysics of finiteness proposed by him. It reveals that the appeal to this problem field was the result of his reflections on the relationship of the basic principles of fundamental ontology with the substantiation of the subject area and strategy of comprehending history. Heidegger's teaching in this perspective is associated with an intensive dialogue with the ideas of W. Dilthey and F. Nietzsche. Dilthey is the author who allowed Heidegger to rethink in an existential way not only the historicity of Dasein, but also such phenomena as understanding and interpretation, the initial openness of the meaning of historical tradition. However, unlike Dilthey, who argued for the pluralism of cultural worlds and did not accept the possibility of considering them in the horizon of diachronic unity, Heidegger believed that the hermeneutic perspective is not an obstacle to the search for the global meaning of world history. Borrowing the genealogical methodology from Nietzsche, he critically revised his vision of history through the prism of the formation of nihilism as the oblivion of life. World history and the contemporary cultural crisis, in his opinion, find an explanation in the light of the nihilist forgetfulness of Being generated by the European metaphysical tradition, the completion of which is the Nietzschean metaphysics of will.

The Sense of Self Over Time: Assessing Diachronicity in Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychosis and Healthy Comparison Groups

Dissociative experiences have been associated with diachronic disunity. Yet, this work is in its infancy. Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is characterized by different identity states reporting their own relatively continuous sense of self. The degree to which patients in dissociative identity states experience diachronic unity (i.e., sense of self over time) has not been empirically explored. This study examined the degree to which patients in dissociative identity states experienced diachronic unity. Participants were DID adults (n=14) assessed in adult and child identity states, adults with a psychotic illness (n=19), adults from the general population (n=55), children from the general population (n=26) and adults imagining themselves as children (n=23). They completed the Diachronic Disunity Scale (DDS), the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES), and the Self-Concept Clarity Scale (SCCS). Diachronic disunity was not limited to psychiatric groups, but evident to some degree in all adult and child samples. The DID adult sample experienced more dissociation and self-confusion than the psychosis and adult comparison groups, but did not differ on the diachronic measure. DID patients in their child identity states and child comparisons showed disunity and were significantly different from child simulators, who showed relatively more unity. Results suggest that DID patients in either adult or child dissociative identity states, like those in other samples, do not universally experience themselves as having a consistent sense of self over time.

THE CONFLICT OF URBAN IDENTITY: VISUAL ASPECTS

В статье анализируется визуальная репрезентация конфликтности городской идентичности. Городская идентичность понимается как одна из граней личностной идентичности, существующей в синхроническом и диахроническом единстве. Теория социальных ролей позволяет исследовать синхронический аспект городской идентичности, выделить «транспортные роли» горожанина, конфликтные аспекты «транспортной идентичности». Отмечается актуализация конфликтности городской идентичности в синхроническом аспекте при резких и непоправимых изменениях в городской среде. Конфликтность влияет на отчуждение человека от города, на разрушение его городской идентичности. Диахронический аспект городской идентичности тесно связан с мемориальной культурой, которая содержит широкий спектр идентификационных выборов. Визуальные репрезентации мемориальной культуры влияют на становление городской идентичности, на формирование устойчивых представлений человека о себе как о жителе определенного города, на ценностное переживание своей связи с городом. The article analyzes the visual representation of the conflict of urban identity. Urban identity is understood as one of the facets of personal identity that exists in the synchronic and diachronic unity. The theory of social roles allows exploring the synchronic aspect of urban identity, highlighting the “transport roles” of the city dweller and the conflicting aspects of “transport identity”. The conflict of urban identity in the synchronic aspect is actualized with sharp and irreparable changes in the urban environment. The conflict affects people’s alienation from the city, the destruction of their urban identity. The diachronic aspect of urban identity is closely related to memorial culture, which contains a wide range of identification choices. Visual representations of memorial culture influence the development of urban identity, the formation of people’s stable representations about themselves as residents of a certain city, the value experience of their connection with the city.

Consciousness as Presence: An Exploration of the Illusion of Self

Buddhism teaches that ‘self’ as a substantial, enduring entity is an illusion. But for self to be an illusion there must be something in our experience that is misinterpreted as self. What is this? The notion of an experiential self plays an important role in phenomenological investigations of conscious experience. Does the illusion of self consist in mistaking a purely experiential self for a substantial self? I argue against this and locate the source of the illusion in time-consciousness. It is the essence of consciousness to flow, but the flow of consciousness presupposes an experiential present. The experiential present — an abiding sense of ‘now’ — is the dimension through which experiences are experienced as streaming. It is this, I argue, that is misinterpreted as an enduring self. I support my account by arguing that the synchronic and diachronic unity of consciousness can be accounted for in terms of impersonal, temporal experience, and that conceiving of consciousness as the presence-dimension rather than as the I-dimension affords a solution to the brain-bisection puzzle.

The Stream of Consciousness: XII. Consciousness and Self-Awareness

Consciousness and self-awareness—how are they mutually related? This contribution to the present series of articles begins to consider replies to this question from the Jamesian perspective of The Principles. First, several relevant senses of consciousness are made explicit. Then, I give attention to James's notion of personal consciousness: How do the basic durational components of a stream of consciousness “cohere” to form a stream, given that, on James's mind—body dualism, they do not have a spatial location? Continuities of content among the components of a single stream is supposed to be the unifying factor; James held bodily feelings are an intrinsic feature of every component of a stream. The diachronic unity of consciousness rests heavily on a kind of self-awareness. Also addressed here are inner awareness, or the immediate awareness that one can have of one's mental-occurrence instances, and whether remembering past experiences requires that one had not only inner awareness of them when they occurred, but self-awareness as well.