Preview: / David Car interviewed by Filip Gołaszewski / David Carr is among the philosophers who have done most to make phenomenology’s contribution to the study of narrative both explicit and systematic. His engagement with the philosophy of history began with his work on the translation of Husserl’s Crisis, which confronted him directly with…
Abstract: This article argues that a normative figure of an “ideal refugee” operates as a Weberian ideal type in contemporary refugee governance, hierarchically ordering displaced people according to standards of conduct, affect, and political identity. Drawing on critical citizenship studies, the article traces how acts of citizenship and rightful presence produce legible and illegible refugee subjects…
Abstract: John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty is typically regarded as the key defense of free discussion in nineteenth-century Europe, and thus it remains relevant to contemporary concerns about free speech. It is also often seen as the fruit of its author’s secular mindset, suggesting a substantive link between that mindset and free discussion. This article examines…
Abstract: This article traces how the modern experience of historical time, as crystallized in the French Revolution, reconfigures the relation between subjectivity, collective memory, and political appearance. Through Koselleck, I describe how the widening gap between experience and expectation becomes a lived horizon in which history is no longer inherited but projected. Following Carr, I show how…
Abstract: This paper examines Husserl’s largely overlooked reflections on myth and their implications for his conception(s) of universalism. While Husserl’s “Vienna Lecture” portrays myth as the opposite of the theoretical attitude that defines European rationality, his unpublished manuscripts reveal a more nuanced perspective: myth functions not only as a concealment of truth but also as the…
Abstract: The relationship between the father of phenomenology and the father of the philosophy of stories has been described as a departure of Wilhelm Schapp from Edmund Husserl, following the turn to transcendental idealism marked by the publication of Ideen (1913). This supposed rupture is taken to ground Schapp’s narratological reinterpretation of phenomenology. Nevertheless, Schapp’s…
Abstract: In this article, I reconstruct Ferdinand Fellmann’s account of the relation between knowledge and narrative within his broader understanding of phenomenology as an aesthetic theory. I argue that narrative plays a constitutive role in mediating the relation between subjectivity, world, and meaning. From this perspective, Fellmann’s position can be understood as a narrative reworking of Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology,…
Abstract: The main argument of this article is that narrative, as a verbal manifestation of some iconic aspects of human experience relating to temporality and memory, among others, can only lose its lucidity and even its recognized psychological function of structuring reality, when rendered in the anti-mimetic mode of using the present tense in the…
Abstract: This essay examines dreaming as a challenge to the dichotomy between narrative and episodic conceptions of the self. Drawing on Sartre’s phenomenology of the imaginary, it argues that dreams elude both accounts: dream consciousness is episodic and pre-reflective – reflective awareness that one is dreaming would annihilate the dream – yet dreams are…
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…