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HANS BLUMENBERG
PHÄNOMENOLOGISCHE SCHRIFTEN
Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2018. ISBN 9783518587218

Abstract
The review presents the central ideas of the Phenomenological Writings of the modern German philosopher H. Blumenberg. The main issue of this review is to clarify the general positions in the method of Blumenberg; his critics of the phenomenology of E. Husserl and to show the role of Phenomenological Writings in the corpus of Blumenberg’s works. The main focus is to identify the significance of metaphorology and anthropology for Blumenberg’s phenomenological approach. One of the most important ideas of Blumenberg’s research is the problem of finite human consciousness. He reinterprets consciousness in the context of its “factuality,” depending on the specific historical human existence. In this regard, Blumenberg criticizes the phenomenological problems of evidence and objectivity, underlines the role of “non-obvious,” incomplete and other forms of negativity in human experience. Consciousness, according to Blumenberg, along with such spheres as the world, time or the Other cannot be given in its immediate presence, therefore it requires metaphorical means of description. The life world is also described by means of metaphors that can be found in E. Husserl’s phenomenological language itself—in the metaphor of the soil or horizon. These topics reveal the meaning of the earlier project Paradigms for Metaphorology by G. Blumenberg and his initial interest in the symbolic, incomplete means of describing human consciousness and life. Further clarification of the anthropological dimension of phenomenology is carried out in the context of intersubjectivity problems. The concept of intersubjectivity, from the point of view of Blumenberg, is necessary not so much to justify the criteria of the objectivity of the world, as to reveal the boundaries of human consciousness in the experience of the Other. The conclusion of the review presents Blumenberg’s interpretation of the phenomenological method as a special “life practice” that can cross the boundaries of the principle of evidence and include such areas as paradox, hypothesis and incompleteness in understanding the activity of consciousness.

Key words
Anthropological phenomenology, consciousness, Husserl, metaphorology, life world, intersubjectivity.

References

• Blumenberg, H. (2006). Beschreibung des Menschen. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
• Blumenberg, H. (2001). Die Lebenszeit und Weltzeit. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
• Blumenberg, H. (1998). Paradigmen zu einer Metaphorologie. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
• Blumenberg, H. (2018). Phänomenologische Schriften. 1981–1988. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag.
• Blumenberg, H. (2007). Theorie der Unbegrifflichkeit. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
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• Husserl, E. (1985). Erfahrung und Urteil. Untersuchungen zur Genealogie der Logik. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag.
• Monod, J.-C. (2017). Das „Anthropologieverbot“ bei Husserl und Heidegger und seine Übertretung durch Blumenberg. Deutsch-französische Zeitschrift für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, 25, 1–17.
• Müller, O. (2017). Phänomenologische Anthropologie. Hans Blumenbergs Lebensprojekt. In G. Hartung, & M. Herrgen (Eds.), Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie (325–347). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
• Wetz, F. J. (2010). Hans Blumenberg zur Eiführung. Hamburg: Junius.
• Wittgenstein, L. (2010). On Certainty. In Culture. Value. On Certainty. Rus. Ed. Moscow: AST: Astrel’ Publ. (In Russian).

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AND IS IT YET ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO OVERCOME THE TRAUMA OF MODERNITY?
ANDREW HAAS
UNITY AND ASPECT
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann GmbH, 2018. ISBN 9783826064500

Abstract
Haas’ Unity and Aspect reveals a philosophical impulse that leads to the creation of a new form of language for posing the questions that belong to first philosophy. This philosophical intuition should be appraised within the historical and philosophical development of metaphysical thought which demonstrates its self-destructive nature (as Heidegger argues with respect to “European Nihilism”) through a critique of traditional concepts and questions, which subsequently leads to the deconstruction of metaphysics as such. The experience of metaphysical thought—its critique as well as the deconstruction of its critical impulse—can be defined as traumatic; and in a certain sense, Haas’ work is an attempt to overcome the trauma underlying the entire project of contemporary philosophical searching. Unity and Aspect’s turn to metaphysics is a consequence of an opposition to the language of rational thought and its deconstruction. Haas introduces new concepts, therefore, such as implication and illumination, in order to problematize and “suspend” the idea of human consciousness and personality in its special stance towards the world. It is certain that the questions of first philosophy and metaphysics are extremely relevant for the contemporary thought, yet, the privileged stance of consciousness is radically rejected by some schools, as for instance, by speculative realism. Thus, we try to show that the language posed by Haas brings, in a certain sense, the problems of phenomenology closer to those of speculative realism by sublating the difference in their intentions.

Key words
Critique of metaphysics, deconstruction, first philosophy, trauma, modernity, phenomenology, new language practices, speculative realism, consciousness, correlationism.

References

• Groys, B. (2006). Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media. Rus. Ed. Moscow: Khudozhestvennyi zhurnal Publ. (In Russian).
• Haas, A. (2015). What is a Problem? Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, 4 (2), 71–86.
• Haas, A. (2018). Unity and Aspect. Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann GmbH.
• Harman, G. (2019). Speculative Realism: Introduction. Rus. Ed. Moscow: RIPOL klassik Publ. (In Russian).
• Kojève, A. (1998). Idea of Death in Hegel’s Philosophy. Rus. Ed. Moscow: Logos, Progress-Traditsiia Publ. (In Russian).
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• Meillassoux, Q. (2013). Specral Dilemma. Rus. Ed. Logos, 2 (92), 70–80. (In Russian).
• Nikonova, S. (2012). Aesthetic Rationality and New Mythological Thinking. Moscow: Soglasie Publ. (In Russian).
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• Welsch, W. (1997). Undoing Aesthetics. London: Thousand Oaks.

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GIOVANNI JAN GIUBILATO (HG. / ED.)
LEBENDIGKEIT DER PHÄNOMENOLOGIE: TRADITION UND ERNEUERUNG / VITALITY OF PHENOMENOLOGY: TRADITION AND RENEWAL
Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz GmbH, 2018. ISBN 9783959484190

Abstract
The review of the collective monograph Vitality of Phenomenology: Tradition and Renewal traces various aspects of an interesting and peculiar design implemented in this publication. Non-thematic unity and community of traditions (philosophical and cultural) are united under the same cover of the authors of this monograph. Following the centripetal tendencies in the development of phenomenology, the authors nevertheless are united by a single task of finding the growth points of the phenomenological tradition and discovering new thematic areas in which phenomenological analysis can be applied. The problems of the life world and the position of phenomenology in modern discussions with representatives of analytical philosophy on the problems of consciousness, the thematic intersections of phenomenology with anthropology, hermeneutical philosophy, biological and linguistic research are becoming the subject of analysis. The authors of the sections not only trace the obvious lines of the development of phenomenology in the concepts of M. Heidegger, M. Merlot-Ponti or O. Fink, but bold parallels with the theory of deconstruction of J. Derrida, with modern ideas of bioethics or traditions of Japanese spiritual culture are discovered and argued.

Key words
Phenomenology, tradition, consciousness, life world, hermeneutics, being, intentionality, anthropology.

References

• Giubilato, G. J. (Ed.). (2018). Lebendigkeit Der Phänomenologie: Tradition Und Erneuerung / Vitality Of Phenomenology: Tradition And Renewal. Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz GmbH.

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GIOVANNI JAN GIUBILATO (HG. / ED.)
LEBENDIGKEIT DER PHÄNOMENOLOGIE: TRADITION UND ERNEUERUNG / VITALITY OF PHENOMENOLOGY: TRADITION AND RENEWAL
Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz GmbH, 2018. ISBN 9783959484190

Abstract
The main goal of the book Vitality of Phenomenology/Lebendigkeit der Phänomenologie (ed. by Giovanni Jan Giubilato) is not only to outline the variety of philosophical movements that emerged within the field of phenomenology, but also to demonstrate the “vitality” and relevance of phenomenological ideas in the contemporary philosophy. The underlying assumption of the book is that phenomenology by its definition should stay an open project: even if some “discoveries” have been already made in this field, there still stays a possibility of renewal and transformation of our experiences and modes of contemplation. Thus, the movement of phenomenological thought always presupposes a certain kind of circularity and interplay between tradition and renewal. Therefore, the present miscellany of articles aims to cover a wide scope of ideas, which are crucial for the phenomenological tradition, and to show how they function in the contemporary thought. Connections between phenomenology and analytic philosophy of mind, phenomenology and hermeneutics, phenomenology and deconstruction, phenomenology and neorealism, and even the phenomenological implications in political philosophy are all brought to light by this stimulating book.

Key words
Phenomenology, world, meontics, hermeneutics, lifeworld, intentionality, corporeality, language, Daseinsanalysis, oikos, deconstruction.

References

• Castro, E. V. de (2017). Cannibal Metaphysics. Lines of Post-Structural Anthropology. Rus. Ed. Moscow: Ad Marginem Press Publ. (In Russian).
• Derrida, J. (1991). “Eating Well”, or the Calculation of the Subject: An Interview With Jacques Derrida. In E. Cadava, P. Connor, & J.-L. Nancy (Eds.), Who Comes After the Subject? (96–119). New York and London: Routledge.
• Derrida, J. (1999). Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Sign Problem in Husserl’s Phenomenology. Rus. Ed. St Petersburg: Aleteia Publ. (In Russian).
• Derrida, J. (2000). From Grammatology. Rus. Ed. Moscow: Ad Marginem Publ. (In Russian).
• Falev, E. (2000). The Role of Husserl’s Phenomenology in the Development of Heidgger’s Hermeneutics. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta, Seriia 7: Filosofiia, 48–62. (In Russian).
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• Giubilato, G. J. (Ed.). (2018). Lebendigkeit Der Phänomenologie: Tradition Und Erneuerung / Vitality Of Phenomenology: Tradition And Renewal. Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz GmbH.
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• Husserl, E. (2004). The European Science Crisis and Transcendental Phenomenology. Rus. Ed. St Petersburg: Vladimir Dal’ Publ. (In Russian).
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• Husserl, E. (2010). Cartesian Meditations. Rus. Ed. Moscow: Akademicheskij Proekt Publ. (In Russian).
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THE REVIEW OF THE INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE “TO LET THINGS BE! EDMUND HUSSERL 160, MARTIN HEIDEGGER 130”
(December 10-12, 2019, Riga, Latvia)

Abstract
The current report gives an overview of The International Interdisciplinary Conference: To Let Things Be! Edmund Husserl 160, Martin Heidegger 130 , which took place at the University of Latvia, December 10-12, 2019. The report outlines the philosophical aims of the conference, analyses the contribution of the researchers from fifteen countries around the world, and introduces the main conclusions concerning the interdisciplinary development of phenomenology.

Key words
Phenomenology, hermeneutics, interdisciplinarity, Husserl, Heidegger.

References

• Husserl, E. (1970). The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
• Kivle, I., & Bičevskis, R. (2019). Conference Proceedings: International Interdisciplinary Conference: To Let Things Be! Edmund Husserl 160, Martin Heidegger 130 (December 10–12, 2019, Riga, Latvia). Riga: University of Latvia.
• Patkul, A. (2015). Review of the International Conference “History of Phenomenological Philosophy and Contemporary Phenomenological Investigations” (November 11–12, 2014, Moscow, Russia). Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, 4(1), 308–313. (In Russian).
• Vēgners, U., & Grīnfelde, M. (2017). Report of the International Conference “Phenomenology and Aesthetics. The 3rd Conference on Traditions and Perspectives of the Phenomenological Movement in Central and Eastern Europe” (June 29 — July 1, 2017, Riga, Latvia). Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, 6(2), 358–365.