by admin | Jul 3, 2024
We all know that time has duration, that time endures. But the question is: do we realize what is implied in this realization? Henri Bergson showed that our understanding of many subjects such as life, matter, space, and subjective or inner experience are entangled...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
The invocative language of a poem is characterized by Dichtung. Poetry, Dichtung, means intensification of language. The writer invokes poetic powers of language to have certain effects on the reader. Invocative words become infected or contaminated with the meanings...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
In a sense, every word kills and becomes the death of the object it tries to represent. That is because the word becomes the substitution of the object. Even the subtlest poem destroys what it names. For this reason, Blanchot says that the perfect book would have no...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
People seem to feel that the term “lived experience” is loaded with special profundity—it seems to hint at certain deeper meanings. But ironically, the phenomenological term “lived experience” simply means lived-through experience. Historically it does not refer to...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
The existential theme of materiality may guide our reflection to ask how things are experienced with respect to the phenomenon that is being studied. It would be difficult to overestimate the significance of “things” in our lives. The things are our world in its...