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Phenomenology of Communication
Kaiser, Benjamin ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Joisten, Karen (referee) ; Schmiedl-Neuburg, Hilmar (referee)
Doctoral thesis by Benjamin Kaiser (FHS UK): Title in English: Relating and unrelating. A phenomenology of impartation. Abstract (English) Using a phenomenological analysis of the living body, this thesis investigates the dynamics of relating and unrelating in the context of philosophical anthropology. The first main chapter on "Mediation and Deprivation" argues that, in the context of early 20th century, certain philosophical paradigms arose which made the medium an absolute concept: some examples are those of environment; milieu and media theory. On the other hand, Husserl developed the phenomenological Epoché; and Plessner's and Scheler's emphasised the world/environment- difference as a negative response towards these paradigmatic accounts on mediation. An excursus further investigates the "sceptical beginnings of phenomenology" by making a comparison between the Epoché of the ancient Greek scepticism in the works of Sextus Empiricus and the phenomenological Epoché of Husserl. It shows that already in its earliest forms in ancient philosophy the Epoché was understood as related to our bodily existence. The second main chapter develops a "Phenomenology of Boundary Embodiment [Grenzleiblichkeit]". Following Hans Rainer Sepp's anthropology of the living body, this chapter analyses certain phenomena in...
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Absolute knowledge and groundless certainty by Hegel and Wittgenstein.
Berg, Alexander ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Rentsch, Thomas (referee) ; Novotný, Karel (referee)
A l e x a n d e r B e r g - Z u s a m m e n f a s s u n g - D i s s e r t a t i o n 2 0 1 7 Absolutes Wissen und Grundlose Gewissheit bei Hegel und Wittgenstein "Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different." (Wittgenstein im Phoenix-Park, Dublin 1948) Abstract Der Wert dieser Untersuchung besteht darin, zum einen anhand des vielfältigen z. T. erst neu zugänglichen Materials Wittgensteins Phoenix-Park- Satz besser verstehen zu können und damit insgesamt eine tiefere Einsicht in den Zusammenhang des Wittgenstein'schen Denkens mit der Philosophie Hegels zu ermöglichen. Weiter stehen Wittgensteins Überlegungen zu Hegel aber auch im Kontext der Frage nach der Stellung seiner eigenen lebenslangen philosophischen Anstrengungen zu denjenigen der großen Denker der Philosophiegeschichte überhaupt. Die verschiedenen konkret historischen und ideengeschichtlichen Verbindungen, so wie sie in dieser Untersuchung von Wittgenstein's Denken über die philosophische Scholastik im Mittelalter bis zum antiken Ursprung der philosophischen Tradition zurückverfolgt werden konnten, helfen dabei, einer Antwort auf diese Frage Wittgensteins etwas näher zu kommen.
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Critique of Mythical Economy
Asjoma, Maxim ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Blecha, Ivan (referee) ; Hasse, Rolf (referee)
The concept of myth pervades economic theory and exercise. However, the influence of myth on contemporary economics is not yet analyzed sufficiently - a distinguished critique of mythical economy lacks a fundamental phenomenological approach. Based on this diagnosis, a new method of analysis shall be developed to build up a theoretical framework for an adequate understanding of the foundations of economics. The premise of such an approach is an evolved phenomenological method containing the works of Edmund Husserl, Heinrich Rombach and Michel Henry called "Structural Contingency Analysis". With this, mythical parts of economic language and exercise shall be elucidated for an improved comprehension of its phenomena. Along a differentiated understanding of the concept of myth, as a fundamentally essential way of perception, as also stressed by the research of Kurt Hübner, Karl Kerényi and Jean Gebser, an advanced understanding of the mythical ideology shall be delivered. Finally all preliminary theoretical foundations will be used for a fundamental critique of modern economics. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Über den Pinselstrich - unter demAspekt des Verhältnissesvon Gesichts- und Tastsinn. Eine phänomenologische Studie
Huang, Ziming ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Schmiedl-Neuburg, Hilmar (referee) ; Joisten, Karen (referee)
Summary: The dissertation conducts a phenomenological study of the brushstroke in art from the perspective of the relationship between sight and touch. The previous analyzes of painting focus mostly on the sense of sight, this thesis is characterized by the emphasis on the importance of the sense of touch in visual art. The theme is related to both philosophy and art, so the investigation consists of two main parts, "Theoretical Analysis" and "Detailed Analysis". In the part of the "theoretical analysis" first a "historical overview of sight and touch" is led. The philosophical research on perception and the relationship of sight and touch are summarized. Phenomenological observation points to the fundamental meaning of the sense of touch in the corporeality. According to the research of simple perception, the "layer analysis of the image" is carried out. Image-consciousness is a matter of multiple objectivities and their apprehensions. Different layers in image theory by Husserl and Ingarden are presented and compared. In terms of aesthetic experience, Dufrenne's distinction between the artwork and the aesthetic object is guided. The importance of sight and touch in the aesthetic consideration of the brushstroke is recognized. On the basis of the "theoretical analysis" the "detailed analysis" is carried...
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The aesthetical, educational and political idea of being humane. Philosophical investigations in the field of "applied theatre" following Maurice Merleau-Ponty's gestalttheoretical phenomenology
Fopp, David ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Hilmer, Brigitte (referee) ; Koch, Gerd (referee)
(English) David Fopp: The aesthetical, educational and political idea of being humane. Philosophical investigations in the field of "applied theatre" following Maurice Merleau-Ponty's gestalttheoretical phenomenology This dissertation analyses the most important forms of drama/acting-exercises in the field of "applied theatre" (acting- schools, drama education and community theatre) from the perspective of establishing democratic relations and spaces. What happens in these imaginative interactions and what is needed in their aesthetical and pedagogical framework so that a special type of playful meeting occurs leading to a "connectedness" in the relation to others and oneself? Three phenomena (and their interdependence) are central to this project: the already mentioned capacity of being more or less in contact, connected (or alienated) to ourselves and others; the aesthetical and educational phenomenon of a creative space of trust and acceptance; and the idea of being "humane" - for example describing the atmosphere and characters of many works of the classical (childrens) literature and film: such as Lindgren or Dickens, but even of works of art such as Chaplins films. This idea is explored by comparing it to three concepts of being "human": an anthropological, a moral and an ethical. The...
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The Home of the Phenomenologists. The Circle of Bergzabern in the Contextof the Early Phenomenological Movement.
Feldes, Joachim ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Sokol, Jan (referee) ; Ales Bello, Angela (referee)
The Bergzabern Circle, whose significance was first identified by Herbert Spiegelberg in his Phenomenological Movement and later underscored by Eberhard Avé-Lallemant, is one of the groups of critical importance to Edith Stein, due to her life-long focus on the communities within and through which she lived and for which she felt responsible. This applies, of course, to her family and to religious communities such as the Cologne and the Echt Carmel, as well as to groups within the Phenomenological Movement and the movement itself. Stein was a member of the inner circle alongside Theodor Conrad, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Jean Hering, Hans Lipps, Alexandre Koyré and the hitherto much neglected Alfred von Sybel. In Stein's thinking and work after World War I, she benefits substantially from this exchange of ideas, and many of her propositions cannot be correctly interpreted without reference to this circle. For example, any account of her Speyer Years (1923-31) that fails to adequately discuss Stein's relationships with and visits to Bergzabern, must remain incomplete, as it lacks an essential dimension of Stein's personality. What shaped the group's beginnings and its goals was the young phenomenologists' turning away from the 'transcendental' Husserl and towards Reinach in the Göttingen Philosophical...
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The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Kant and Meillassoux: On the Reason and Unreason of Post-metaphysical Thought
Sistiaga, Sergey ; Novák, Aleš (advisor) ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (referee) ; Theis, Robert (referee)
The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Kant and Meillassoux: On the Reason and Unreason of Post-metaphysical Thought. The aim of this thesis is to probe the alleged grounds of post-metaphysical thought in order to unearth its foundations. This genetic-systematic inquiry thus not only aims to scrutinize possible interpretations of the judgment the tribunal of reason is said to have passed on itself qua reason, but, more importantly, to revise the very judgment itself and to question the legitimacy of the tribunal. Apart from the fact that self-administered justice rarely results in convictions, the process seems ill-conceived from the start. The thesis sets in with an analysis of Quentin Meillassoux's recent invigorating and highly original re- discovery of post-metaphysical thought's unreason and a close reading of Kant's relevant pre- critical and critical works: while judgment was indeed passed in the name of "pure reason", it was not passed on reason itself but merely on its "logical" use. Only reason's usus logicus, not its usus realis were indicted by reason. In other words, the judgment has been misunderstood. The reason for this misunderstanding is located in Kant's philosophical presuppositions, which thus emerge as the very unreason of post-metaphysical thought. Since such unreason cannot...
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The image and image-consciousness in relation to the absolute subjectivity and the meontic absolute: the route of the phenomenology according to Eugen Fink
Coli, Anna Luiza ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Giubilato, Giovanni (referee) ; Weber, José Fernandes (referee)
The present work intends to offer an interpretation key to Eugen Fink's philosophy from the leitmotiv of the negative. The approach taken here considers his philosophical project from a perspective of autonomy and originality regarding Fink's contemporary philosophies - Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The aim is to provide a counterpoint to the still predominant tendency of considering Fink mainly as an interpret of both Husserl and Heidegger. In the course of the work it becomes clear that the direct dialogue with other philosophies - for instance as Nietzsche's, Kant's and above all Hegel's philosophy - is the methodological procedure through which he raises his own philosophy. The negative accounts for a particular concept that not only traverses the two moments of Fink's philosophy, but in which the metaphysical transformation of his later thinking is most manifest. In order to distinguish these moments in Fink's work, we refer here on the one hand to a meontic matrix of thought, the one that prevailed during the period of assistance to Husserl, and on the other hand to a cosmological matrix of thought, which was developed as such only after Husserl's death. The movement of the negative concept ultimately reveals itself as a development in Fink's own conception of philosophy, which could...
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The gendered Human Being. Gender Difference from the Perspective of Helmuth Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology
Reinhardt, Charlotte ; Serban, Claudia (advisor) ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (referee)
In The gendered Human Being. Gender Difference from the Perspective of Helmuth Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology, gender difference in the two-gender model is examined from the perspective of philosophical anthropology. For this purpose, three social constructivist theories of gender difference are brought into conversation with each other under the prism of lived body-body-person. In this way, the work aims to catch a glimpse of the gendered human being in all the spheres that open up their world. Key words: Helmuth Plessner, Philosophical Anthropology, anthropology, gender difference, gender studies, philosophy of the twentieth century, phenomenology, social philosophy, Judith Butler, Doing Gender, theory of interaction, constructivism
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The Otherness of the Marxist Philosophy of History: An Attempt at Symbolic Conceptualization
Zagvozdkin, Nikita ; Trawny, Peter (advisor) ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (referee)
The Otherness of the Marxist Philosophy of History: An Attempt at Symbolic Conceptualization Abstract: The presented master's thesis makes an attempt to re-contextualize the Marxist philosophy of history in relation to its otherness (Anderssein) and thereby to shift the methodologically central accent away from the category of totality (worked out mainly in Lukács' "History and Class Consciousness"). This new perspective is to be centred on the phenomena that cannot be fully covered in a scientific or strictly materialist manner and that nevertheless belong to the conceptual framework of Marxism. For this purpose, the other (das Andere) is defined as the symbolic (das Symbolische), which is further examined in the first part of the thesis with reference to Kant's "Critique of Judgment" and on the basis of several descriptions - discursive and phenomenological alike. The symbolic is then outlined as a special type of figurative that overcomes the figurative itself and thus constitutes a transcending operation. In the second part of the paper, this definition is applied to the Marxist philosophy of history with the aim to explicate its symbolic figures and to show their conceptual tensions. In accordance with the established meaning of the term, three symbols are consecutively considered and analysed: The...
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