Roman Ingarden's Ontology and Aesthetics

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CONTENTS Foreword XI Preface and Acknowledgments XIII Introduction 1 A. Purpose and Structure of the Present Study 1 B. Ingarden's Realist Response to Husserl's Transcendental Idealism 5 Notes 7 Chapter One A Sketch of Ingarden's Life, Career, and Works 9 Notes 23 Chapter Two Ingarden's Interpretation of Husserl 41 A. Introduction: Husserl and Metaphysical Idealism ... 41 B. Ingarden's Interpretation of Husserl 49 1. The Concept of Philosophy as Rigorous Science 51 2. The Appropriate Method of Epistemology (The Phenomenological Reduction) 55 3. The Analysisof Perception and the Theory of Constitution 57 4. The Formal-ontological Foundations of Husserl's Idealist Solution 62 C. Summary 65 Notes 65 Chapter Three Controversy Over the Existence of the World 79 A. Introduction: The Genesis, Task, and Structure of Controversy 79 B. Central Analysesand Conclusions of Controversy, Parts I and II 86 1. Preliminary Remarks: Summary of Chapters 1and 2 (§§1-9) 86 (a) Existential-ontological Questions 87 VII Roman Ingarden's Ontology and Aesthetics (b) Formal-ontological Questions 87 (c) Material-ontological Questions 88 2. Existential Ontology (Controversy, Part I) 88 (a) Analysis of Chapter 3 (§§10-17) 88 (i) Existential Autonomyand Existential Heteronomy (§12) 90 (ii) Existential Originality and Existential Derivation (§13) 91 (iii) Existential Separateness and Existential Inseparateness (§14) 93 (iv) Existential Self-dependence and Existential Contingency (§15) 95 3. Formal Ontology, 1:Form and Essence (Controversy, Part II/l) 99 (a) Analysis of Chapter 9 (§§46-48) 100 C. Summary: Controversy and Ingarden's Studies in Aesthetics 110 Notes Ill Chapter Four The Literary Work of Art 123 A. Introduction: Ingarden's Prefaces to the First and Second Editions of LWA 123 B. Exposition of LWA 125 1. Preliminary Questions (LWA, Part I) 125 2. The Structure of the Literary Work of Art (LWA, Part II) 128 (a) The Stratum of Linguistic Sound Formations 129 (b) The Stratum of Meaning Units 132 (c) The Stratum of Represented Objectivities ... 135 (d) The Stratum of Schematized Aspects 137 3. Conclusions (LWA, Part III) 139 C. Analyses of Two Texts 140 1. "The Dead" 140 2. "The Raven" 143 D. Summary: LWA and Ingarden's Philosophical Program as a Whole 152 Notes 156 VIII Contents Chapter Five Ingarden's Analyses of Other Sorts of Artworks 163 A. Introduction 163 B. The Dramatic Work of Art 164 C. The Musical Work 167 D. The Picture 175 E. The Architectural Work 182 F. Summary: The Work of Art as Schematic Formation 185 Notes 187 Chapter Six Ingarden and Contemporary Aesthetics 193 A. Introduction: Ingarden's Influence 193 B. Ingarden and Contemporary Philosophical Hermeneutics 196 C. Artist's Intention and 'The Idea of the Work' 202 D. From Phenomenological Aesthetics to Realist Metaphysics: The Turn to Intentional Being 207 Notes 209 Bibliography of Works Cited 215 Index of Subjects 227 Index of Proper Names 235 IX This page intentionally left blank ...