The Great Chain of Being and Italian Phenomenology
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ANALECT A HUSSERLIANA
THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH VOLUME XI
Editor: ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA
The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning Belmont, Massachusetts
THE GREAT CHAIN OF BEING and ITALIAN PHENOMENOLOGY Edited by ANGELA ALES BELLO Centro Italiano di Fenomenologia, Rome
and The World Institute tor Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, Belmont, Massachusetts
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: The Great chain of being and Italian phenomenology. (Analecta Husserliana ; v. 11) Includes research reports of the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, the Centro italiano de fenomenologia, and selected papers presented at two meetings held in Feb. and Mar. 1979, in Viterbo and Rome, Italy. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Phenomenology-Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938-Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. OntologyAddresses, essays, lectures. 4. Philosophy, Italian-20th centuryAddresses, essays, lectures. I. Ales Bello, Angela. n. Centro italiano di fenomenologia. Ill. World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning. IV. Series. [B829.5] 142'.7s 80-19100 B3279.H94A129 vol. 11 [142'.7] ISBN 978-94-011-7988-1 DOI 10.1007/978-94-009-8366-3
ISBN 978-94-009-8366-3 (eBook)
All Rights Reserved Copyright © 1981 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by D. Reide1 Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1981
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1981 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduiases, due predOminantly to the prevailing assumptions of the cultures from which they have emerged. On the one hand, the predominant prestige of positive science has left its "dehumanizing" mark upon the life-world, the world of the thinker himself. On the other hand, a concurrent "disillusionment" has corrupted the Western spiritual climate, calling in question the higher aspirations and ideals of man, ideals which in previous cultural epochs determined the "humanistic" faith of man, and so undermined the very foundations of the culture of our times, causing our view of man to shrink to the bare minimum. This shrinkage expresses itself in the approach to any object of reflection or inquiry by a certain onesidedness, a certain limitation to some self-enclosed segment, which loses its link to the whole - of which it is in fact an organic part. ix
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This shrinkage - as is only too well known and too much emphasised this shrinkage at the heart of the great majority of variants expressing Westent culture appears with a striking force when contrasted with the way in which our central phenomenological issue of man in-the-human-condition is received by Italian scholars. Until now nurtured by the humanistic culture of the Renaissance, which saw man fully "human" only when approached in the entirety of his being and from within the v
