Idealizing the life-world in the age of discovery
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Alexander Kozin,
Alexander Kozin (b. 1964) is a research fellow at Freie Universitaet Berlin 〈alex.kozin@gmx.net〉. His research interests include phenomenology, semiotics, and communication studies. His publications include “The legal file. Folding law: Folded law” (2007); “Xenology as semiotic phenomenology” (2008); “On constituting courtroom space in legal discourse” (2009); “The Native American identity and the limits of cultural defence” (2010).
Abstract
This article discusses “mathematization of the world” as it was elaborated by Edmund Husserl who focuses on the figure of Galileo and his rediscovery of the heliocentric system in the seventeenth century. The author argues that the latter event became definitional not only for the formation of ideal objectivity but for a wide spectrum of relations between natural sciences and the life-world. Umberto Eco provides a literary exemplar of this thesis, demonstrating that idealization of the physical body carried out by Galileo found its match in the Aristotelian telescope invented to create ideal subjectivity.
About the author
Alexander Kozin (b. 1964) is a research fellow at Freie Universitaet Berlin 〈alex.kozin@gmx.net〉. His research interests include phenomenology, semiotics, and communication studies. His publications include “The legal file. Folding law: Folded law” (2007); “Xenology as semiotic phenomenology” (2008); “On constituting courtroom space in legal discourse” (2009); “The Native American identity and the limits of cultural defence” (2010).
©[2012] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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- Masthead
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- Peirce's ten trichotomies: Metaphor, hypothesis, and decision
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- The social semiotic construction of chemical periodicity: A multimodal view
- The semiotic construction of worldview in film: Multimodal variations in Le Samourai, The Killer, and Ghost Dog
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