Search results for "subjectivity"

Conducting a task while reconstructing its meaning

2022

This article investigates the way an institutional task of a meeting is oriented to by different meeting participants and developed in and through local interaction. Our data come from a city organization, where a large organizational change is planned and prepared through a series of face-to-face encounters and accompanying written texts. Using the notion of recontextualization and by connecting it to the conversation analytical method and to the notion of intersubjectivity, the study examines how the institutional task that is verbalized in written form prior to the meeting is conceptualized by meeting participants in their turns of talk. By doing so, the study will particularly shed ligh…

Talis hominibus fuit oratio qualis vita. Nietzsche y la narración de sí

2015

Ecce Homo certainly is an unconventional autobiography. Both its structure and its contents are in fact quite different from that traditionally adopted. First, in Ecce Homo life and literary production basically coincide; second, in that book Nietzsche deals with an “I” which is not the traditional “subject” of Western philosophy. In this paper I shall argue that in Ecce Homo Nietzsche tries to develop a new kind of subjectivity. In particular, Nietzsche rejects the idea of an unchanging, absolute, substance subject, and sees it as a mobile construction, something that can be described only insofar as it “becomes what it is”, that is, as it consciously reacts to its unavoidable destiny.

The Death of the Subject in David Lynch's Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive

2003

International audience; Quel est le sujet de ces deux films qui ont suscité de nombreuses interrogations auprès du public lors de leur sortie, questions portant notamment sur la signification de la diégèse ? Nous avançons que ce n'est pas à ce niveau-là que l'on doit chercher le sens des films de Lynch. En fait, la mort du personnage comme sujet va de pair avec l'absence d'une histoire ; l'évolution du cinéma de Lynch montre que, si sujet il y a, c'est du côté du spectateur qui tient désormais le rôle de l'enquêteur que tenait les personnages dans les œuvres antérieures (Blue Velvet et la série Twin Peaks). Le sujet lynchien apparaît alors un véritable objet dans une composition qui se refl…

Maupassants Erzählung ‚La Petite Roque‘: Verschobene Innensichten vor dem Gattungshintergrund der Cause Célèbre

2017

Interdiscplinary analysis of Maupassant's short story "La Petite Roque" in the context of 19th and early 20th century crime literature (causes célèbres). The article focuses on questions of subjectivity, desire and respresentation.

Agency and Presence: A Common Dependence on Subjectivity?

2006

This paper argues that presence, as shown in virtual environments, can usefully be seen as comprising various subtypes and that these in turn may have common conceptual and ontological features with a sense of agency as defined by Russell (1996, Agency: Its Role in Mental Development, Erlbaum.). Furthermore, an analysis of Russell's characterization of the concept of agency may be useful for acquiring insight into the sense of presence itself and the variables affecting it. Empirical evidence from cognitive developmental research and the positive results of attempts to develop symbolic understanding in people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in virtual environments suggest that presenc…

Le temps du désir : ontologies de l'imaginaire et de l'affectivité chez Sartre, Merleau- Ponty et Grimaldi

2013

This study aims at confronting the ontologies of the imaginary of Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Grimaldi. Following the path of a critical assessment of Bergsonism, each of these philosophies develops by granting ontological value to the negative, and through a reconsideration of the meaning of temporality. A new approach of negativity emerges from the reflection on the status of the image and further, upon the relationships between real and imaginary, past and present, conscious and subconscious. Merleau-Ponty and Grimaldi thus reject dialectics of being and nothingness in favour of the idea of a negativity thoroughly penetrating being itself; the first one opening the way for a phenomenologic…

Theodor Celms and the “Realism–Idealism” Controversy

2020

It was in his research manuscripts from 1905, also known as the Seefelder Blatter, where Edmund Husserl for the first time introduced the idea of the phenomenological reduction. The introduction of this idea, which he developed and refined years to come, marked the beginning not only of an important turn in Husserl’s philosophy toward transcendental phenomenology, but also the advent of a growing frustration and critique even among Husserl’s own students. The discussion about the ontological status of reality is otherwise known as the realism–idealism controversy. One of the first critiques in a published form came from the Latvian philosopher and Husserl’s student in Freiburg, Theodor Celm…

God-Love-Revelation. God as Saturated Phenomenon i Jean-Luc Marion’s Phenomenology of Givenness

2010

Subjectivity as a Non-Textual Standard of Interpretation in the History of Philosophical Psychology

2008

Contemporary caution against anachronism in intellectual history, and the currently mo mentous theoretical emphasis on subjectivity in the philosophy of mind, are two prevailing conditions that set puzzling constraints for studies in the history of philosophical psychol ogy. The former urges against assuming ideas, motives, and concepts that are alien to the historical intellectual setting under study, and combined with the latter suggests caution in relying on our intuitions regarding subjectivity due to the historically contingent charac terizations it has attained in contemporary philosophy of mind. In the face of these condi tions, our paper raises a question of what we call non-textual…

Do Phenomenological Heresies Exist?

2015

Should contemporary phenomenology be considered as a series of heresies or is it still possible to follow the direction of classical phenomenology to renw it? Does a classical phenomenology exist at all? We can already observe in Husserl's work a kind of stratification of phenomenology which makes it possible to affirm that from its beginning phenomenology has been already deconstructed and revised, never closed in a specific ontological field. Rather it is an indication of a method, of a cognitive praxis with a transcendental status. That opens phenomenology up to continuous revisions according to the object to which consciousness is addressed. This methodological essence of phenomenology …