Essays on Aesthetic Genesis

Edited by Charlene Elsby, Aaron Massecar

Publication date:

14 June 2016

Length of book:

248 pages

Publisher

University Press of America

Dimensions:

230x150mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780761867692

Essays on Aesthetic Genesis is a collection of essays written on Jeff Mitscherling’s work in realist phenomenology, Aesthetic Genesis: The Origin of Consciousness in the Intentional Being of Nature. The authors explicate, expand, contextualize and apply the concepts of intentional being, the “New Copernican Hypothesis” (a reversal of the fundamental tenet of phenomenology that all consciousness is intentional—intentionality, rather, gives rise to consciousness), the idea of intentional structures in nature, and the foundational concepts of Aesthetic Genesis as they appear in the work of Aristotle, Ingarden and Gadamer amongst others. This book takes as its focus Mitscherling’s comprehensive phenomenological analysis of embodiment, aesthetic experience, the interpretation of texts, moral behavior, and cognition, and exemplifies subsequent work in the field of realist phenomenology being conducted by an international collection of active scholars influenced by Aesthetic Genesis.

Foreword
Introduction
Charlene Elsby and Aaron Massecar
Major Concepts
1. On the Concept of Aesthetic Genesis
Charlene Elsby, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne
2. The Copernican Turn of Intentional Being
Charles Rodger, University of Alberta
Historical Considerations
3. Cartesian Soul: Embodiment and Phenomenology in the Wake of Descartes
Felix ÓMurchadha, National University of Ireland, Galway and Ane Faugstad Aarø, University of Bergen
4. The Intentional Being of Justice and the Foreseen
Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray, Wilfrid Laurier University
5. Mitscherling’s Reading of Ingarden
Robert Luzecky, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne
6. Being that Can be Understood is (Not Just) Language: On Linguisticality and Intentionality
Jason C. Robinson, Wilfrid Laurier University
Contemporary Discussion
7. Overcoming Husserl’s Mind-World Split: Jeff Mitscherling’s Aesthetic Genesis and the Birth of Consciousness Through Intentionality
Antonio Calcagno, King’s University College
8. Artistic Creation: On Mitscherling and Dylan
Paul Fairfield, Queen’s University
9. Our Connection to Nature
Siby K. George, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
10. Intentionality and the New Copernican Revolution: Realist Phenomenology and the Extended Mind Hypothesis
Aaron Massecar, Independent Scholar
11. Perfect Empiricism: Mitscherling’s Aristotelian Phenomenology, the Logos, and The Problem of Ideal Objects
Conrad Hamilton, Université Paris VIII Saint-Denis
12. A Relational Theory of Truth
Joshua Boyce, University of Toronto
Afterword
The Problem with Being that Can be Understood
Jeff Mitscherling, University of Guelph

The collection’s twelve essays aim and succeed in providing valuable analyses and further developments of Mitscherling’s key arguments. Essays on Aesthetic Genesis will be of greatest interest to phenomenologists, but also makes noteworthy contributions to central debates in the history of philosophy, current considerations in the philosophy of mind, and to contemporary readings of Continental philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, and Gadamer.... It explores and develops with scholarly integrity ideas presented in Mitscherling’s earlier book that seem both commonplace and commonly denied.