Memory in the Ontopoiesis of Life

This collection aims to explore the fulgurating force of memory within the perspective of the constitution of reality: rememorizing and interpretation, consciousness and action, facts and imagination, history and myths, and self-realization and metamorphosis.

From Aristotle to the present, memory has been grasped as a trace or impression of lost reality bridging physiological experience and consciousness. Philosophers have vainly sought the nature of this bridge. The present-day physiologizing/naturalizing of consciousness is not resolving their congenital continuity, in which the very existence and practice of life is rooted. We have to change our approach (Erwin Straus). The Aristotelian congenital ties between memory and temporality, acquire crucial significance in our primogenital ontopoiesis of life (Tymieniecka). It reveals memory to be the factor that carries this coalescence and the becoming of life itself. This can be the fruit only of the generative springs of life, first phenomenology/philosophy, the ontopoietic logos of life.

In this collection we explore memory in the constitution of reality: rememorizing and interpretation, consciousness/action, facts/imagination, history/myths, self-realization/metamorphosis.

Memory as the essential function of life's ontopoietic timing Memory and the continuity of generating life: organic Pre-natal and post-natal continuity) ontopoietic thread The classic understanding of the trace of memory reformulated Memory and creativity Memory, temporality and self-identity

Autorentext
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of "The World Phenomenology Institute".

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From Aristotle to the present, memory has been grasped as an image--a trace or impression left by a lost reality--and has been seen as bridging physiological experience and consciousness. Through the centuries philosophers have vainly sought to make concrete the nature of this bridge between sensory experience and consciousness. The present-day physiologizing/naturalizing of consciousness is no closer than previous attempts to resolving their congenital continuity. But the very existence and practice of life is rooted in this continuity, and clearly we have to change our approach to and formulation of this enigma (Erwin Straus). This will mean simultaneously hitting upon and entering into the Aristotelian congenital ties between memory and temporality, which acquire crucial significance in our primogenital ontopoiesis of life (Tymieniecka). The ontopoietic approach to the generation and unfolding of beingness, to the step by step temporalizing of life in the whirl of coalescing moments, reveals memory to be the factor that carries the great secret of this coalescence of temporality and the becoming of life itself. This selectivity and coalescence cannot be the fruit of singular functional schemata or organs, but must proceed from the generative springs of life, become the new platform of first phenomenology/philosophy, with the fluctuating thread of continuity of memory now to be sought at the innermost heart of beingness and becoming in the ontopoietic logos of life.
We propose in this collection to explore the fulgurating force of memory within the perspective of the constitution of reality: rememorizing and interpretation, consciousness and action, facts and imagination, history and myths, self-realization and metamorphosis....

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Memory Along Life's Genesis.- Memory and The Myth of Prometheus.- A History of The Idea of Organic Memory.- Memory and Action: The Conscience of Time in Personal Becoming in Bergson and Blondel.- Phenomenology of Life on Memory: Revealing The Creative Human Condition in The Music Art Universe.- Humanizing Nature.- The Anthropocentric Versus Biocentric Outlook on Nature.- Ecological Design And Retrieving The Environmental Meaning.- Philosophical-Historical Aspects Of Land Relations (On Example Of Russian North Nations).- The Phenomenon of The Gaze.- Ciphering Human Existance.- Kierkegaard And The Phenomenology Of Repetition In The Nouveau Roman.- Notion Of Forgetting And Remembering In Piranesi: Fireplace As The Setting Of A Dionysian Play.- The Category Of The NOW In Husserlian Phenomenology Of TimePolemic Against Derridean Anti-Presentialism.- Smritir Bhumika (The Role of Memory): Some Memory-Related Poems and Songs of Rabindranath.- Memory As a Challange to Human Existence Aspects Of Temporality And The Role Of Memory In Reference To Guitton'S Concept Of Time.- Time, Memory And The Musical Perception.- Play Of Memory In Self-Identity Otherness.- Memory, Personal Identity, and Moral Responsibility.- Memory As a Positive and Negative Motivation Component In a Person's Activity.- Interpreting The Modern Times Possibilities, Limitations, Social And Vital Functions.- The Activity Of The Self-Realization Within The Context Of The Fabricated Identity Of The Consumer Self And Its Transformation.- Utilitarian-Aesthetic Dynamics of Nature.- Memory In The Creative Ontopoiesis Of Life.- Memory and Creativity in The Context of Ontopoiesis of Beingness: A-T. Tymieniecka and A. Bergson.- About The Correlation of Memory and Remembrance in TheStructure of The Soul.- The Interplay of Light and Dark.- Memory The Possibility of Creation in A Learning World Interpretation.