Essays on Aesthetic Genesis

by Charlene Elsby (Editor), Aaron Massecar (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761867692
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	06/14/2016
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Charlene Elsby is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, specializing in Ancient Philosophy and Realist Phenomenology. She has articles appearing in Quaestiones Disputatae and Logic and Logical Philosophy, along with several book chapters and contributions to popular culture and philosophy volumes. She is currently working on an analysis of the integration of Aristotelian concepts into the works of early phenomenologists.
Aaron Massecar is an independent scholar and consultant living in Guelph, Canada. He is the author of Ethical Habits: A Peircean Perspective (Lexington Books, 2016) and numerous articles on Charles S. Peirce that have been published in journals such as The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society and Contemporary Pragmatism. He continues to research critical, reflective habit development and its effect on human performance.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

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.

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