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PHENOMENOLOGY OF LIGHT IN THE AESTHETIC VIEWS OF J. FOSSE ON THE EXAMPLE OF HIS WORK “ANOTHER NAME. SEPTOLOGY I–II”

Title in the language of publication: ФЕНОМЕНОЛОГИЯ СВЕТА В ЭСТЕТИЧЕСКИХ ВОЗЗРЕНИЯХ Ю. ФОССЕ НА ПРИМЕРЕ ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЯ «ДРУГОЕ ИМЯ. СЕПТОЛОГИЯ I–II»
Author: ANNA MASLIAKOVA
Issue: HORIZON. Studies in Phenomenology.
Vol. 13, №2 (2024), 542–555
Language: Russian
Document type: Research Article
DOI : 10.21638/2226-5260-2024-13-2-542-555 PDF (Downloads: 782)

Abstract
The aim of this article is to study the phenomenology of light, which plays a significant part in the aesthetics of Jon Fosse, the Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023. According to Jon Fosse, art is not only a way of perceiving the world around us but also a necessary condition for harmonious existence in it, which is most fully reflected in the work “The Other Name: Septology I–II,” first published in 2019. One cannot help but agree that the deep religiosity of the author, who converted to Catholicism in 2013, has had a huge influence on his work. Many hundreds of years ago, the Nativity of Christ illuminated the “darkness” of the pagan world, and the degree of “manifestation” of this “Divine Light” in works of art, according to Jon Fosse, is one of the main criteria for their authenticity. As for “darkness,” it acts as the primary source of light, the very same “Nothing” that from time to time peeks through “Being,” and against the background of which the light “sounds” especially prominently and brightly. According to the concept of the “Septology I–II,” art not only activates the process of self-determination of the individual, who is in continuous dialogue with “others-in-themselves” (the painter Asle and his “alter ego”), but also the work of art as such has its own identity, which is constantly evolving, opening “in-itself-for-us” new facets and shades. Moreover, according to Jon Fosse, the artist’s mission, in the broad sense of the word, is to show people the path to the “Divine Light” in the “tunnel” of quantum uncertainty, especially during transitional periods of history.

Keywords
phenomenology, aesthetics, Jon Fosse, septology, identity, self-determination, light, darkness.

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RAINER MARIA RILKE’S POETRY IN THE INTERPRETATION OF GUNTHER ANDERS AND HANNAH ARENDT AND THE CRISIS OF FUNDAMENTAL ONTOLOGY

Title in the language of publication: ПОЭЗИЯ РАЙНЕРА МАРИЯ РИЛЬКЕ В ИНТЕРПРЕТАЦИИ ГЮНТЕРА АНДЕРСА И ХАННЫ АРЕНДТ И КРИЗИС ФУНДАМЕНТАЛЬНОЙ ОНТОЛОГИИ
Author: KIRILL LOSTCHEVSKY
Issue: HORIZON. Studies in Phenomenology.
Vol. 13, №2 (2024), 475–489
Language: Russian
Document type: Research Article
DOI : 10.21638/2226-5260-2024-13-2-475-489 PDF (Downloads: 838)

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The article examines the ontological problems posed in the work of G. Anders and H. Arendt “The Duin Elegies of Rilke”, which is considered in the context of the evolution of M. Heidegger’s philosophical ideas. In the 30s of the twentieth century, Heidegger’s philosophy underwent a significant shift associated with the transition from the construction of a phenomenologically and anthropologically oriented ontology to the thinking of being, which proceeds from its original openness and follows the guiding thread of language. The interest that the text of Anders and Arendt presents in this regard is that it can also be seen as a statement of the unproductiveness of the phenomenological method of posing and solving ontological problems, the rejection of attempts to reveal the meaning of being based on explication of the structure of human existence, and the shift of emphasis to comprehension of the essence of language and interpretation of poetic speech. In the work under study by Anders and Arendt, two plans of philosophical analysis of Rilke’s poetic text are revealed: first, arguments about poetic thinking as a way of revealing artistic and philosophical truth, and, secondly, a meaningful interpretation of the ideas that are articulated in this poetry. It is noted that Anders and Arendt’s appeal to the poetry of R. M. Rilke and the turn in Heidegger’s thinking could be dictated by similar motives: the search for promising ways to overcome the emerging crisis of the fundamental ontological program. Moreover, as a result of the research, it is suggested that the work of Anders and Arendt, published in 1930, to a certain extent outstrips and anticipates the future direction of Heidegger’s reflections, and in shifting the focus of his research interest in language and poetic creativity are realized the interpretative possibilities that were outlined by Anders and Arendt.

Keywords
ontology, Rilke, Anders, Arendt, Heidegger, overcoming metaphysics, language, poetry.

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TO LOSE THE MEANING OF MUSICALITY. WHAT IS THE PLACE OF MUSIC IN A WORLD SATURATED WITH AUDIO RECORDINGS?

Title in the language of publication: PERDRE SA RAISON D’ÊTRE MUSICALE. DANS UN MONDE SATURÉ PAR LES ENREGISTREMENTS SONORES, QUELLE PLACE POUR LA MUSIQUE ?
Author: PATRICK LANG
Issue: HORIZON. Studies in Phenomenology.
Vol. 13, №2 (2024), 556–570
Language: French
Document type: Research Article
DOI : 10.21638/2226-5260-2024-13-2-556-570 PDF (Downloads: 825)

Abstract
“Listening to music” and “listening to sound recordings” have become perfectly synonymous in our society. The aim of this paper is to question the legitimacy of this supposed equivalence, which almost all listeners have taken for granted. Our sonic universe is saturated with recorded sounds: what space does it leave to music? What reasons could justify a radical distinction, or even opposition, between the exposure to recorded sounds and musical activity in the strict sense of the word? According to tried and tested phenomenological method, through conscious attention to what appears, we return “to the matters themselves”: namely, the conditions under which sonorities can become music. After a first, introductive part reflecting the exceptional marginality of recording in mankind’s musical history, the second part of the study sketches a phenomenological description of a genuine musical process; the final part examines the consequences of sound registration with regard to such a process and to various aspects of music making and listening to music. It is thereby shown that recordings are by no means a vector of democratizing musical culture.

Keywords
acoustics, archaeo-acoustics, musical coherence, phonofixation, musical process, listening regression, musical univocity, tempo.

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PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF MUSICAL MEANING ON THE MATERIAL OF ROCK MUSIC

Title in the language of publication: ФЕНОМЕНОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ АНАЛИЗ МУЗЫКАЛЬНОГО СМЫСЛА (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ РОК-МУЗЫКИ)
Author: ELENA KOSILOVA
Issue: HORIZON. Studies in Phenomenology.
Vol. 13, №2 (2024), 571–586
Language: Russian
Document type: Research Article
DOI : 10.21638/2226-5260-2024-13-2-571-586 PDF (Downloads: 869)

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The article deals with the phenomenological analysis of music perception on the material of rock songs. The structure of a song is simpler than the structure of a classical piece of music, but all the results are valid for any music with appropriate complication. “Listening device”—a computer program that translates sounds into musical notation - perceives individual sounds. But the musical consciousness understands the specific musical thought. It groups sounds into motifs and phrases. F. Tagg introduces the concept of “museme”—a unit of musical meaning. Musemes have meaning only for the understanding consciousness. Musemes of different levels include motifs and phrases, metric signature, rhythm, and the structure of the whole work. In a melody there may be “key sites” in which the concentration of musical thought is maximized. They are constituted by musical consciousness and are largely subjective. The understanding of a musical work takes place in time, and this allows the consciousness to mark out a segment of time, to arrange the intelligible structure in it. A melody is a meaningful whole that has its own logic of unfolding. It encompasses a segment of time and transforms it into something stationary. Melody can be represented in the form of a scheme. The subject of music is the compression of time into such structures. An interesting example of musical perception is psychedelic rock. When listening to psychedelic music, the constitutive activity of consciousness is reduced and an altered state of consciousness occurs. The horizon of meaning narrows, the protention disappears. Here we should recall the notion of “saturated phenomenon” introduced by J.-L. Marion. The saturated phenomenon does not allow for constitution and assimilation. Psychedelic music modifies the horizons of future meanings. The article concludes with a question about computer music: will it make sense to us? So far there is no unequivocal answer to this question.

Keywords
music, rock music, phenomenology of music, constitution of meaning, museme, key sites of melody, psychedelic rock, saturated phenomenon.

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PHENOMENOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF GERNOT BÖHME’S AESTHETICS OF ATMOSPHERES

Title in the language of publication: ФЕНОМЕНОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ АСПЕКТЫ ЭСТЕТИКИ АТМОСФЕР ГЕРНОТА БЁМЕ
Author: LIUBOV IAKOVLEVA
Issue: HORIZON. Studies in Phenomenology.
Vol. 13, №2 (2024), 353-374
Language: Russian
Document type: Research Article
DOI : 10.21638/2226-5260-2024-13-2-353-374 PDF (Downloads: 1005)

Abstract
This article examines the phenomenon of atmosphere in the aesthetics of the German philosopher Gernot Böhme. It explores the connection between his ideas and those of Hermann Schmitz’s “New Phenomenology” and Martin Heidegger’s ontology. The atmosphere is analyzed through Schmitz’s concepts: the space of human corporeality, and the categories of “contraction” (Enge) and “expansion” (Weite)). Key points of Schmitz’s phenomenology are identified: the absolute space of the felt body, its independence from geometric space; the description of the body's dynamics through bodily impulses and vectors of “contraction” (Enge) and “expansion” (Weite)); the critique of the internal arrangement of feelings; the understanding of feelings and atmospheres as external “forces.” Böhme illustrates illustrated this concepts using the example of the sublime atmosphere in the temple space. Through light and shadow, silence and lines, the atmosphere of the sublime is created. It captivates, astonishes, and directs human corporeality towards spaciousness, providing a perception of the dynamics of human corporeality. Böhme’s description of the atmosphere includes the problem of the subject perceiving the atmosphere. The phenomenon of atmosphere is understood based on the concepts of mood and disposition of a person, derived from Martin Heidegger’s concept of Dasein. Mood is revealed in two ways: as the attunement, the tonality of a person’s own place, and as the tonality of the places in which they reside. It is concluded that perceiving the atmosphere means perceiving the mutual attunement between a person and the world. The final point is the analysis of the concept of ecstasies in Böhme’s aesthetics. The transition from Schmitz’s concept of semi-things to the problem of ecstasies is shown. Ecstasies in Böhme’s aesthetics describe a special space where various qualities of things spread. The radiance of light, the filling of the space with color, the play of light and shadow, the weight of sound—these qualities create an atmosphere. The mood of the place is created by the manifestation of these things, their “resonance,” giving a special aesthetic to the space. It is concluded that the perception of atmosphere includes: the perception of the place of the living body, affected by the mood of the place; the perception of one’s own relationship to the place, the world, and oneself; the perception of how the place reveals its own resonance and mood through the ecstatic properties of things and their ability to fill the entire space.

Keywords
aesthetics of atmospheres, felt body’s space space, absolute place, mood, “contraction” (Enge), “expansion” (Weite), Befindlichkeit, ecstasies.

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THE AGE OF THE SYSTEMIC IMPERATIVE. A PHENOMENOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Title in the language of publication: THE AGE OF THE SYSTEMIC IMPERATIVE. A PHENOMENOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Author: IVO DE GENNARO, RALF LÜFTER
Issue: HORIZON. Studies in Phenomenology.
Vol. 13, №2 (2024), 587–609
Language: English
Document type: Research Article
DOI : 10.21638/2226-5260-2024-13-2-587-609 PDF (Downloads: 728)

Abstract
We provide a phenomenological interpretation of the rise of responsibility as a key concept of contemporary ethics. If we consider the philosophical tradition at large, responsibility has emerged as a concern, or even the center of attention, of ethical reflection only in relatively recent times. How can we account for this emergence? We argue that today’s pervasive concern with responsibility envisages a responsibility that is constitutively “social,” and that the thus understood responsibility traces back to a more original trait of sense, which presently informs our relation to the world. This trait we call “responsive.” Hence, our contention is that, when in contemporary ethical discourse we speak of (social) responsibility, the latter has a fundamentally responsive character. The responsive character of the contemporary concept of responsibility is related to the appearance of a new kind of imperative, which we call “systemic.” Originating from the unique imperative of “the system of universal existence,” systemic imperatives have the form of factual urgencies, which, while demanding an urgent and effective response, exclude the scope of what traditional ethics conceives as the perfectibility of beings. Our diagnosis of responsive responsibility in the horizon of the systemic imperative is guided by the phenomenon of “original responsibility”, which we obtain from Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology. “Original responsibility” refers to the relation between man’s being and being itself. The form of this relation is that man’s being consists in a (needed) response to being itself. Based on this hermeneutic framework, we show how the kind of threat which informs the systemic imperative (here exemplified by Hans Jonas’s “ecological imperative”) holds in store the expectability of a new “perfection” of beings.

Keywords
social responsibility, responsive ethics, perfection, systemic imperative, categorical imperative, hermeneutic phenomenology, Hans Jonas, Martin Heidegger.

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