Preview: The topics highlighted in the title of this introduction can be treated as a compass guiding the problems tackled by the authors of this volume. The general topic of the narrative approach to life was described by Wilhelm Schapp as entanglement, the state of always being involved in a story, of both telling it and being told by it. Entanglement…
Preview: Phenomenology engaged with literature from its very beginnings, across all its main centers: the Munich circle (Johannes Daubert), the Göttingen school (Roman Ingarden), and Freiburg (Heidegger). Contemporary French scholars such as Claude Romano, Henri Maldiney, Éliane Escoubas, and Jean-Louis Chrétien have further strengthened this phenomenological engagement with literature. However, the…
Preview: “The study of aesthetics proceeds along many lines, containing both the theory of beauty and the theory of art, and investigating both aesthetic objects and aesthetic experiences, employing description, prescription, analysis, and explanation.” Thus begins Władysław Tatarkiewicz’s seminal work on the history of aesthetics from antiquity to the mid-eighteenth century, the…
Preview: Almost 70 years ago Czesław Miłosz wrote that what distinguishes Eastern European(s) is a specific, essential “lack of form – external and internal.” All their positive characteristics and virtues come from their fundamental vice which is a permanent immaturity. Eastern European(s) are guided by “a sudden inflow or outflow of internal chaos.” This…
Preview: The category of Eastern Europe is deeply problematic. It is so on many levels. To better realize that, it suffices to ask a citizen of any country once belonging to the “Eastern bloc” if they consider themselves Eastern European. In most cases they will do whatever possible to slip away from such a categorization, considering it deeply shameful….
Preview: Philosophy as a way of life (PWL) is an emerging field of study which in the last decades has experienced a vibrant and multifaceted development. Particularly proliferous in the areas of metaphilosophy and the history of philosophy, PWL has also been applied to a wide variety of knowledge domains beyond the academic world. Ever more prominent…
Preview: Over the past few decades, the idea of philosophy as a way of life (PWL) has gained undeniable prominence in contemporary debates about the nature and function of philosophy. Pierre Hadot forged the notion to denote the specific way in which ancient philosophers conceived of and practiced philosophy, stressing its performative character and its…
Preview: This special issue of Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture follows on from the double special issue on Science and Religion published at the end of last year. This double issue focused primarily on questions in metaphysics and ontology. What several of the contributions have pointed out, however, is that the naturalistic worldview, which…
Preview: “Taste” is among those philosophical categories that are the most difficult to fully characterize. Reflection on taste, on the experience and concept of taste, flourished in modern times. It went through its history from dynamic development in the seventeenth century and theoretical career in the eighteenth century. One gets the impression that “taste” became the…
Preview: This is the second volume of the double issue of Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture devoted to the relationship between science and religion. The contributions across these two volumes have mostly been concerned with, and argued for, various aspects of a non-reductive view of this relationship, according to which reality is…