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Memory in the Ontopoiesis of Life

Book One. Memory in the Generation and Unfolding of Life

  • Memory as the essential function of life’s ontopoietic timing
  • Memory and the continuity of generating life: organic
  • Pre-natal and post-natal continuity) ontopoietic thread
  • The classic understanding of the trace of memory reformulated
  • Memory and creativity
  • Memory, temporality and self-identity

Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana (ANHU, volume 101)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
  2. Humanizing Nature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
    2. The Phenomenon of The Gaze

      • Eldon C. Wait
      Pages 95-102
  3. Play Of Memory In Self-Identity Otherness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
    2. Memory, Personal Identity, and Moral Responsibility

      • Ayhan Sol, Gökhan Akbay
      Pages 167-179

About this book

From Aristotle to the present, memory has been grasped as a trace or impression of lost reality – bridging physiological experience and consciousness. Philosophers have vainly sought the nature of this bridge. The present-day physiologizing/naturalizing of consciousness is not resolving their congenital continuity, in which the very existence and practice of life is rooted. We have to change our approach (Erwin Straus). The Aristotelian congenital ties between memory and temporality, acquire crucial significance in our primogenital ontopoiesis of life (Tymieniecka). It reveals memory to be the factor that carries this coalescence and the becoming of life itself. This can be the fruit only of the generative springs of life, first phenomenology/philosophy, the ontopoietic logos of life.

In this collection we explore memory in the constitution of reality: rememorizing and interpretation, consciousness/action, facts/imagination, history/myths, self-realization/metamorphosis.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, Hanover, USA

    A-T. Tymieniecka

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