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Phenomenology of the Poetical

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These lines from “The Doctrine of the Point of View” by Jose Ortega y Gasset, the fragment devoted to the ever-existing antinomy between life and culture and their interpretations from the rationalistic and relativistic view points, are the perfect opening for the present paper as they capture the sense and the mood of the philosophical endeavor taken upon by Anna-Teresa Tymienicka in Poetica nova and Book 3 of Logos and Life: The Passions of the Soul and the Elements into Onto-Poiesis of Culture. In short it could be summarized as the inquiry into phenomenology of the poetical with a special emphasis on literature as the prima facie human creative activity to be approached by the means of the phenomenological description. The description in turn is centered around the conception of mimesis, based upon the phenomenology of life, as the creative self-projection into the intersubjective life-world. The present paper falls into four subsequent parts: the prelude — stating the problem and its actuality in our complex and somewhat chaotic intellectual environment; the interlude — the philosophical conceptualization (with some historical references) of mimesis, mimetical action, and the three orders of mimesis; the theme — mimesis as self-projection; and the postlude.