Basisphänomen und Leibapriori
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Oliver Honer
Abstract
: Basephenomenon and A Priori of the Body. Reflections on a cultural-philosophical concept of dialectical practice. The paper focuses on the relation between critical reflection on culture and historical-practical orientation in the work of Ernst Cassirer. I want to argue that the latter has to be mediated under different transcendental conditions. Despite not mentioning a mediation of that kind, Cassirer gives hints of these conditions in his ‚basephenomena‘, or more specifically, in the phenomenon of Monas as the a priori referentiality of cultural life to an I. In this concept, Cassirer draws a close connection between the revelation of cultural world, symbolic function of expression and the unity of body and soul. A similar approach by Karl-Otto Apel points out the failure of eccentric theory to objectify the perspectivity of human bodily world intervention without investing a technical abstraction, leading him to a so called ‚Leibapriori‘ (‚a priori of the body‘). By paralleling Cassirer’s Basephenomena with the ‚Leibapriori‘, I will show that these conditions cannot be completely sublated in an eccentric dialectical thought. In conclusion, critical reflection of culture has to be remediated via a first-person-view practice in order to give orientation in the historical perspective.
Abstract
: Basephenomenon and A Priori of the Body. Reflections on a cultural-philosophical concept of dialectical practice. The paper focuses on the relation between critical reflection on culture and historical-practical orientation in the work of Ernst Cassirer. I want to argue that the latter has to be mediated under different transcendental conditions. Despite not mentioning a mediation of that kind, Cassirer gives hints of these conditions in his ‚basephenomena‘, or more specifically, in the phenomenon of Monas as the a priori referentiality of cultural life to an I. In this concept, Cassirer draws a close connection between the revelation of cultural world, symbolic function of expression and the unity of body and soul. A similar approach by Karl-Otto Apel points out the failure of eccentric theory to objectify the perspectivity of human bodily world intervention without investing a technical abstraction, leading him to a so called ‚Leibapriori‘ (‚a priori of the body‘). By paralleling Cassirer’s Basephenomena with the ‚Leibapriori‘, I will show that these conditions cannot be completely sublated in an eccentric dialectical thought. In conclusion, critical reflection of culture has to be remediated via a first-person-view practice in order to give orientation in the historical perspective.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Inhalt V
- Einleitung der Herausgeber 1
- An den Grenzen der Symbolisierung 7
- Was sind die Objekte der Wahrnehmung? 25
- Rekonstruktive Synthesis 47
- Basisphänomen und Leibapriori 69
- Cassirers analytische Philosophie 89
- Der leibliche Grund der Symbolfunktion 113
- Mind als Geist in der Welt der Kultur 129
- Inkarnierter Sinn 151
- „Werkzeug-Denken“ 175
- Formwerdung und Formlosigkeit der Form 195
- Transformation oder Deformation des Subjekts? 217
- Ästhetik versus Kunstgeschichte? 239
- Cassirer und die Verhaltensbiologie 261
- Michel Foucault als Leser Ernst Cassirers 283
- Siglenverzeichnis 303
- Personenregister 305
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Inhalt V
- Einleitung der Herausgeber 1
- An den Grenzen der Symbolisierung 7
- Was sind die Objekte der Wahrnehmung? 25
- Rekonstruktive Synthesis 47
- Basisphänomen und Leibapriori 69
- Cassirers analytische Philosophie 89
- Der leibliche Grund der Symbolfunktion 113
- Mind als Geist in der Welt der Kultur 129
- Inkarnierter Sinn 151
- „Werkzeug-Denken“ 175
- Formwerdung und Formlosigkeit der Form 195
- Transformation oder Deformation des Subjekts? 217
- Ästhetik versus Kunstgeschichte? 239
- Cassirer und die Verhaltensbiologie 261
- Michel Foucault als Leser Ernst Cassirers 283
- Siglenverzeichnis 303
- Personenregister 305
