Ebook: Memory in the Ontopoesis of Life: Book One. Memory in the Generation and Unfolding of Life

From Aristotle to the present, memory has been grasped as an image--a trace or impression left by a lost reality--and has been seen as bridging physiological experience and consciousness. Through the centuries philosophers have vainly sought to make concrete the nature of this bridge between sensory experience and consciousness. The present-day physiologizing/naturalizing of consciousness is no closer than previous attempts to resolving their congenital continuity. But the very existence and practice of life is rooted in this continuity, and clearly we have to change our approach to and formulation of this enigma (Erwin Straus). This will mean simultaneously hitting upon and entering into the Aristotelian congenital ties between memory and temporality, which acquire crucial significance in our primogenital ontopoiesis of life (Tymieniecka). The ontopoietic approach to the generation and unfolding of beingness, to the step by step temporalizing of life in the whirl of coalescing moments, reveals memory to be the factor that carries the great secret of this coalescence of temporality and the becoming of life itself. This selectivity and coalescence cannot be the fruit of singular functional schemata or organs, but must proceed from the generative springs of life, become the new platform of first phenomenology/philosophy, with the fluctuating thread of continuity of memory now to be sought at the innermost heart of beingness and becoming in the ontopoietic logos of life.
We propose in this collection to explore the fulgurating force of memory within the perspective of the constitution of reality: rememorizing and interpretation, consciousness and action, facts and imagination, history and myths, self-realization and metamorphosis....

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From Aristotle to the present, memory has been grasped as an image--a trace or impression left by a lost reality--and has been seen as bridging physiological experience and consciousness. Through the centuries philosophers have vainly sought to make concrete the nature of this bridge between sensory experience and consciousness. The present-day physiologizing/naturalizing of consciousness is no closer than previous attempts to resolving their congenital continuity. But the very existence and practice of life is rooted in this continuity, and clearly we have to change our approach to and formulation of this enigma (Erwin Straus). This will mean simultaneously hitting upon and entering into the Aristotelian congenital ties between memory and temporality, which acquire crucial significance in our primogenital ontopoiesis of life (Tymieniecka). The ontopoietic approach to the generation and unfolding of beingness, to the step by step temporalizing of life in the whirl of coalescing moments, reveals memory to be the factor that carries the great secret of this coalescence of temporality and the becoming of life itself. This selectivity and coalescence cannot be the fruit of singular functional schemata or organs, but must proceed from the generative springs of life, become the new platform of first phenomenology/philosophy, with the fluctuating thread of continuity of memory now to be sought at the innermost heart of beingness and becoming in the ontopoietic logos of life.
We propose in this collection to explore the fulgurating force of memory within the perspective of the constitution of reality: rememorizing and interpretation, consciousness and action, facts and imagination, history and myths, self-realization and metamorphosis....

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From Aristotle to the present, memory has been grasped as an image--a trace or impression left by a lost reality--and has been seen as bridging physiological experience and consciousness. Through the centuries philosophers have vainly sought to make concrete the nature of this bridge between sensory experience and consciousness. The present-day physiologizing/naturalizing of consciousness is no closer than previous attempts to resolving their congenital continuity. But the very existence and practice of life is rooted in this continuity, and clearly we have to change our approach to and formulation of this enigma (Erwin Straus). This will mean simultaneously hitting upon and entering into the Aristotelian congenital ties between memory and temporality, which acquire crucial significance in our primogenital ontopoiesis of life (Tymieniecka). The ontopoietic approach to the generation and unfolding of beingness, to the step by step temporalizing of life in the whirl of coalescing moments, reveals memory to be the factor that carries the great secret of this coalescence of temporality and the becoming of life itself. This selectivity and coalescence cannot be the fruit of singular functional schemata or organs, but must proceed from the generative springs of life, become the new platform of first phenomenology/philosophy, with the fluctuating thread of continuity of memory now to be sought at the innermost heart of beingness and becoming in the ontopoietic logos of life.
We propose in this collection to explore the fulgurating force of memory within the perspective of the constitution of reality: rememorizing and interpretation, consciousness and action, facts and imagination, history and myths, self-realization and metamorphosis....

Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
Memory and The Myth of Prometheus....Pages 5-15
A History of The Idea of Organic Memory....Pages 17-24
Memory and Action: The Conscience of Time in Personal Becoming in Bergson and Blondel....Pages 25-49
Phenomenology of Life on Memory: Revealing The Creative Human Condition in The Music Art Universe....Pages 53-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
The Anthropocentric Versus Biocentric Outlook on Nature....Pages 63-72
Ecological Design And Retrieving The Environmental Meaning....Pages 73-79
Philosophical-Historical Aspects Of Land Relations (On Example Of Russian North Nations)....Pages 81-91
The Phenomenon of The Gaze....Pages 95-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Notion Of Forgetting And Remembering In Piranesi: Fireplace As The Setting Of A Dionysian Play....Pages 105-118
The Category Of The “NOW” In Husserlian Phenomenology Of Time—Polemic Against Derridean Anti-Presentialism....Pages 119-132
“Smritir Bhumika” (The Role of Memory): Some Memory-Related Poems and Songs of Rabindranath....Pages 133-139
Memory As a Challange to Human Existence – Aspects Of Temporality And The Role Of Memory In Reference To Guitton’S Concept Of Time....Pages 141-146
Time, Memory And The Musical Perception....Pages 147-152
Front Matter....Pages 153-163
Memory, Personal Identity, and Moral Responsibility....Pages 165-165
Memory As a Positive and Negative Motivation Component In a Person’s Activity....Pages 167-179
“Interpreting” The Modern Times – Possibilities, Limitations, Social And Vital Functions....Pages 181-190
The Activity Of The Self-Realization Within The Context Of The Fabricated Identity Of The Consumer Self And Its Transformation....Pages 191-200
Utilitarian-Aesthetic Dynamics of Nature....Pages 201-212
Front Matter....Pages 213-229
Memory and Creativity in The Context of Ontopoiesis of Beingness: A-T. Tymieniecka and A. Bergson....Pages 231-231
Front Matter....Pages 233-242
About The Correlation of Memory and Remembrance in The Structure of The Soul....Pages 231-231
The Interplay of Light and Dark....Pages 243-250
Memory – The Possibility of Creation in A Learning World – Interpretation....Pages 253-282
Back Matter....Pages 283-301
....Pages 303-306