Vol. 71

2024

Publication date: 2024

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The publication was funded by the Jagiellonian University in Kraków – Institute of Philosphy under the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at Jagiellonian University.

Licence: CC BY 4.0

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Editor-in-Chief Marek Drwięga

Secretary Adriana Mickiewicz

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Narodziny etosu z patosu – drogi fenomenologii responsywnej

Bernhard Waldenfels

Principia, Vol. 71, 2024, pp. 5-26

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843887PI.24.001.21351

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Wewnętrzna wolność. Szkic

Claude Romano

Principia, Vol. 71, 2024, pp. 27-48

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843887PI.24.002.21352

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„Dodatkowa łyżeczka światła dziennie”. Słowo jako metoda w nowej fenomenologii francuskiej na przykładzie czterech przypadków: Maldiney, Chrétien, Barbaras, Sebbah

Monika Murawska

Principia, Vol. 71, 2024, pp. 49-85

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843887PI.24.003.21353

My goal is to analyze the problem of language used by contemporary thinkers associated with French phenomenology. Like Clifford Geertz in his important book Works and Lives. The Anthropologist as Author devoted to the importance of language in the field of cultural anthropology, I have selected texts by four French phenomenologists for analysis: Henri Maldiney, Jean‑Louis Chretien, Renaud Barbaras and François‑David Sebbah. I shall interpret their texts in the broader context of the new phenomenology, showing the affinities and inspirations they draw on, and emphasizing that they are supremely aware of the non‑transparency of language; this is evident in the objects of their interest I have chosen for analysis, which here become: the book, the act of reading, poetry, or the poetic (le poethique) as a distinguished mode of being, and ultimately, phenomenological writing itself, and facing what Sebbah refers to as impossible phenomenology; impossible precisely by trying to encapsulate experience in words. I will be interested here both in the language used by the phenomenologists I have selected, the style they choose, and in their descriptions of specific phenomena, this time linked to language.

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Zamarznięta rzeka egzystencji. Namysł nad przemocą z perspektywy feminizmu i fenomenologii

Marzena Adamiak

Principia, Vol. 71, 2024, pp. 87-116

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843887PI.24.004.21354

As Maurice Merleau‑Ponty writes, the self expresses its being‑in‑the‑world through embodied acts of expression. The body opens the self to the world, the other, and the future, but it can also hinder this expression by enclosing the self within itself. In this text, I pose the question of gender differences in the manifestation of expression, which leads me to the conclusion that sexual violence has a significant impact on the formation of the female subject. I describe three phenomena of experiencing existence, linked to the experience of sexual violence and indicative of disrupted expression—abduction, living in hiding, and freezing—which I examine through the lens of temporality and spatiality. I devote particular attention to Merleau‑Ponty’s concept of the landscape as a space saturated with an atmosphere of meaning and as a creator of a „familiar place of our life.” Ultimately, the correlation I identify between the type of gendering and the experience of these three phenomena appears to shape the very structure of the subject, raising the question of the validity of seeking universal formulas for coexistence in philosophy.

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Michel Henry: ciało i cielesność

Weronika Węc

Principia, Vol. 71, 2024, pp. 117-134

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843887PI.24.005.21355

The article is a reconstruction and critical analysis of Michel Henry’s position on the body and corporeality, as expressed in the text Incarnation. A Philosophy of Flesh. The first part is devoted to Henry’s methodological postulates, while the second part analyzes their application to the subject of the body and corporeality. The third part contains conclusions and an attempt to point out the problematic points of the theory.

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Ciało jako warunek relacyjności: fenomenologia zmysłów i motoryki według Shauna Gallaghera oraz Dana Zahaviego

Aleksander Jan Jędral

Principia, Vol. 71, 2024, pp. 135-149

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843887PI.24.006.21356

This text is an attempt at a synthetic analysis of the relationship between the embodied subject and the environment, taking into account the first‑person perspective in the philosophy of Shaun Gallagher and Dan Zahavi. In their work titled The Phenomenological Mind, the researchers reject the traditional mind‑body dualism and present the body as a key element of consciousness and individual experience. Rather than treating the body merely as a physical object, they emphasize its role in cognitive processes and interactions with the environment. The authors demonstrate that consciousness is shaped by embodiment, which stands in opposition to reductionist neuroscientific theories that seek to explain consciousness through the analysis of brain structures.

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Wokół „Zerwania”. Rozmowa z prof. Jackiem Migasińskim o politycznych esejach Merleau‑Ponty’ego

Jacek Migasiński, Maciej Kałuża, Radosław Strzelecki

Principia, Vol. 71, 2024, pp. 151-177

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843887PI.24.007.21357

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Słowa kluczowe: Henri Maldiney, Jean‑Louis Chretien, Renaud Barbaras, François‑David Sebbah, phenomenology, language, poetry, writing, feminist phenomenology, gender, woman, gendered subject, sexual violence, expression, landscape, coexistence, Michel Henry, phenomenology, corporeality, body, chair, corpse, intentionality, embodied consciousness, phenomenology, body, mind, Gallagher, Zahavi, cognitive processes, subjective experience, philosophy of mind, cognitive science

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