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“Vienna Lecture” portrays myth as the opposite of the theoretical attitude that defines European rationality, his unpublished manuscripts reveal a more nuanced perspective: myth functions not only as a concealment of truth but also as the…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…
Abstract: The article analyzes three cases through which the avoidance of stigmatization is revealed in very different modes of auto-narration. Each case suggests that the narrators intuitively use a strategy of modal shift: they find ways to resist the metaphorization or universalization of their lives by highlighting the modality of contingency. The article draws primarily…
Abstract: The essay is an introductory reexamination of the notion of realism in film by way of returning to the writings of André Bazin. In a moment when the relation between images and the physical world appears increasingly unstable, Bazin’s phenomenologically inflected understanding of reality offers a productive framework for reconsidering how films engage with the…
Abstract: This article approaches style as an ontological aporia: the condition of appearing that cannot be grasped either as a property of an entity or as Being itself. Beginning from the etymological constellation of stilus/stylus and στῦλος, it reconstructs a tension between writing and architectural space, and shows how visible mappings of space (peristyle, hypostyle) articulate a schema…
Abstract: This paper analyzes the social media trend “Do it for the plot” through Paul Ricoeur’s theory of narrative identity. Although the trend frames itself as enriching, its emphasis on isolated and casual actions conflicts with the ethical depth that a narrative identity entails. Drawing on Ricoeur’s ethical aims outlined in Oneself as Another, the paper…