Controversy over the existence of the world. Volume 1 / Roman Ingarden ; translated and annotated by Arthur Szylewicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingarden, Roman, 1893-1970.

Contributor:

Szylewicz, Arthur.

Series:

Polish contemporary philosophy and philosophical humanities ; v. 6.

Polish contemporary philosophy and philosophical humanities ; volume 6

Standardized Title:

Spór o istnienie świata. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Ontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang Edition, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Roman Ingarden (1893-1970), one of Husserl's closest students and friends, ranks among the most eminent of the first generation of phenomenologists. His magisterial Controversy over the Existence of the World, written during the years of World War II in occupied Poland, consists of a fundamental defense of realism in phenomenology. Volume I, which receives here its first complete and critical translation into English, initiates the grand project of refuting transcendental idealism, and begins by setting the foundations for an elaborate and precise ontological system. This is Ingarden's greates

Contents:

Cover; Translator's Note; Introduction (Jan Woleński); Table of Contents; Preface; Addendum to the German Edition; Chapter I: Preliminary Reflections; 1. Introduction; 2. The Presuppositions of the Controversy and its Provisional Formulation; 3. The Requisite of Sorting Out Various Groups of Problems; Chapter II Partition of the Three Major Problem Groups; 4. Introductory Remarks; 5. Science and Philosophy; 6. Further Characterization of Philosophical Problems; 7. Theory of Knowledge and its Problems; 8. Transition to Further Problems; 9. Three Groups of Ontological Problems

Part I: Existential-Ontological Problems of the Controversy over the Existence of the WorldChapter III: Basic Existential Concepts; 10. The Problem of the Possibility of Analyzing Existence; 11. Modes of Being and Existential Moments; 12. Existential Autonomy and Existential Heteronomy; 13. Existential Originality and Existential Derivativeness; 14. Existential Selfsufficiency and Existential Non-selfsufficiency; 15. Existential Dedpendence and Existential Independence; 16. Absolute Being - Relative Being

17. Outlook on the Existential-Ontological Questions Relevant to the Problem of the Existence of the WorldChapter IV: Provisional Survey of the Currently Feasible Variants of a Solution to the Controversy; 18. Introduction; 19. Group I of Possible Solutions of the Controversy; 20. Group II of Possible Solutions; 21. Group III of Prospective Solutions; 22. Group IV of Prospective Solutions; 23. Group V of Prospective Solutions; 24. Groups VI - VIII of Prospective Solutions; 25. The "Double-solutions"; 26. Summary of Results; Chapter V: Time and Mode of Being

27. Introductory Remarks Concerning Concrete Time 28. The Mode of Being of Events; 29. The Mode of Being of Processes; 30. The Mode of Being of Objects Persisting in Time; Chapter VI: Consequences of the Time Analysis for the Solution Possibilities of the Idealism / Realism Problem; 31. Prospective Exclusion of some Possibilities for Solving the Controversy; 32. Rebuttal to an Objection; 33. New Concepts of Modes of Being; Appendix A [Ch. II, 6, n. 33, 37]; Appendix B [Ch. III, 17, n. 280]; Appendix C [Ch. IV, 19, n. 40]; Appendix D [Ch. IV, 19, n. 41]

Appendix E [Ch. IV, 19, n. 43]Appendix F [Ch IV, 20, n. 100]; Appendix G [Ch. IV, 23, n. 146]; Appendix H [Ch. IV, 23, n. 147]; Appendix I [Ch. IV, 23, n. 148]; Appendix J [Ch. V, 30, n. 147]; Appendix K [Ch. VI, 32, n. 27]

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-653-03767-0