At the limits of experience: dinosaurs, animism and the unconscious.

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62876/lr.vi46.6677

Abstract

Husserl’s phenomenology shows that phenomena in general display aspects that are accessible while others seem to be reluctant to be analyzed. Among the latter are prehistoric animals, humans from animistic cultures, and the unconscious side of subjectivity. This paper aims to describe some essential features of these phenomena and suggest that they are only relatively inaccessible. Prehistoric animals can be reconstructed on the basis of current ones. Animism is a universal feature in all humans, and the unconscious can be accessed through its thresholds and through the recollection of dreams.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Luis Rabanaque , Universidad Católica Argentina

Universidad Católica Argentina

Buenos Aires. Argentina.

Doctor in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires (1995) with a thesis on the noema in Husserl, directed by Dr. Roberto Walton. Ordinary Professor of History of Contemporary Philosophy and Director of the Doctoral Course at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the Argentine Catholic University (UCA). Independent Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). Scholarship holder from CONICET, from the Katholische Universität Eichstätt, from the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) in Freiburg i.Br. under the direction of Prof. Dr. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, as well as the Heinrich-Herz-Stiftung in Wuppertal under the direction of Prof. Dr. Klaus Held. He directs and has directed research projects at the National University of Cuyo, CONICET and the UCA. His area of ​​academic interest focuses on the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, particularly on issues relating to noema, corporeality, language, passivity and dreams. He has published articles and book chapters, is editor of several volumes on the specialty, has translated books and articles from German and English and since 2013 is Director of Philosophy Writings—Second Series (National Academy of Sciences of Buenos Aires). Coordinator for Argentina of CLAFEN (Latin American Circle of Phenomenology), he also directs the Phenomenology and Hermeneutics Section of the Center for Philosophical Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Buenos Aires.

 

References

Conrad, Theodor, Zur Wesenslehre der psychischen Lebens und Erlebens (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1968).

de Warren, Nicolas, “The Inner Night. Towards a Phenomenology of (dreamless) Sleep”, en D. Lohmar e I. Yamaguchi (eds.), On Time. New Contributions to the Phenomenology of Time (Dordrecht: Springer, 2010).

Embree, Lester, Animism, Adumbration, Willing, and Wisdom. Studies in the Phenomenology of Dorion Cairns (Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2012).

Fink, Eugen, “Vergegenwärtigung und Bild. Beiträge zur Phänomenologie der Unwirklichkeit (1930)”, en: Studien zur Phänomenologie 1930-1939 (Den Haag: Nijhoff, 1966).

Geniusas, Saulius, “Daydreaming and Self-Awareness”, en Saulius Geniusas (ed.), Varieties of Self-Awareness. New Perspectives from Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Comparative Philosophy, Cham (Switzerland), Springer, 2023).

Geniusas, Saulius, “Towards a Phenomenology of the Unconscious: Husserl and Fink on Versunkenheit”, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 53/1 (2022): 1-23.

Harvey, Graham, (ed.), The Handbook of Contemporary Animism (London & New York: Routledge, 2013).

Héring, Jean, “Quelques Thèmes d’une phénoménologie des rêves”, en Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa (ed.), For Roman Ingarden. Nine Essays on Phenomenology (The Hague: Martinus Nihjoff, 1959): 75-87.

Husserl, Edmund, Erfahrung und Urteil (Hamburg: Claasen Verlag, 1964).

Husserl, Edmund, Gesammelte Werke—Husserliana (Dordrecht: Springer, 1950-2024; antes Martinus Nijhoff y Kluwer Academic Publishers).

Husserl, Edmund, Husserliana—Materialien (Dordrecht: Springer, 2002-2024).

Iribarne, Julia, “Aportaciones para una fenomenología de los sueños”, en su libro Edmund Husserl. La fenomenología como monadología, (Buenos Aires: Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Buenos Aires, 2002): 369-395.

Lohmar Dieter, “El método fenomenológico de la intuición de esencias y su concreción como variación eidética”, Investigaciones fenomenológicas 5 (2007): 9-47.

Lohmar, Dieter, Phänomenologie der schwachen Phantasie (Dordrecht: Springer, 2008).

Nancy, Jean-Luc, Tombe de soleil (París: Galilée, 2007).

Tylor, Edward Burnett, Primitive Culture (London: John Murray, 2 vols. 1871).

Walton, Roberto, Intencionalidad y horizonticidad (Bogotá/Cali: Aula de Humanidades/ Universidad San Buenaventura, 2015).

Zahavi, Dan, “Husserl’s Phenomenology of the Body”, Études Phenoménologiques 19 (1994):63-84.

Zaner, Richard M., “At Play in the Field of Possibles”, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 41 (2010): 28-84.

Downloads

Published

2024-07-30

How to Cite

Rabanaque , L. (2024). At the limits of experience: dinosaurs, animism and the unconscious. Lógoi. Revista De Filosofia, (46), 50–72. https://doi.org/10.62876/lr.vi46.6677

Issue

No. 46 (2024): N. 46 (2024) julio-diciembre. L´´ogoi. Revista de Filosofía

Section

Article

License

Copyright (c) 2024 Luis Rabanaque

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.