Volume 68 (2013), 5

Like other philosophical theories Husserl’s phenomenology can also be studied and interpreted. However, besides the scientific work there is also an “experimental” aspect of his phenomenology, which is visible in his descriptions and working procedures. The paper deals from the theoretical and practical perspectives with the selfconstitution of the body in Husserl… Read more

The paper compares the notion of bodily expression as used in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of perception with the notion gained from the analysis of The Acting with the Inner Partner. The Acting with the Inner Partner is a kind of dramatic improvised performance, developed at the Department of Authorial Creativity and Education at the Theatre Faculty of the… Read more

The paper gives an outline of a conception of philosophy based on some ideas of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. Merleau-Ponty tries to overcome the traditional thinking (namely its idealistic philosophy/realistic science pattern). He abandons the purely reflexive attitude and turns to the original realm of experience. This turn is crucial for Merleau-Ponty way of… Read more

In this paper, several principles that define the creative condition are formulated. The shift from the everyday attitude to the creative one may be described as a disruption of both normal perception and established structures of meaning. This can happen to us by chance, but it can also be induced deliberately. Creative thinking techniques from Edward De Bono, as… Read more

The article investigates the possibilities a philosophy conceived as a movement, in which cognition and self-cognition are in balance and which thus has the capacity to act on the reader as well as the author. The theatre discipline (Inter)acting with the inner partner developed by Ivan Vyskočil serves at least as the exemplification of this sort of philosophy. It… Read more

In accordance with the spirit of Philosophie-Performance Festival [soundcheck philosophie] which took place in 2011 and 2012 in Halle (Germany) the paper deals with possible forms of expressing philosophical thoughts. In the frame of an optical experiment the notions embodiment and the public have been focused on in order to take a closer look – in accordance with… Read more

The essay reveals the relationship between Heidegger’s thinking and the nature of dancing with regard to his lecture Building Dwelling Thinking. In it Heidegger provides an inspiring illustration of the bridge: “The bridge swings over the stream with ease and power”; “even where the bridge covers the stream, it holds its flow up to the sky by taking it for a… Read more

The article deals with some aspects of Heidegger’s essay Building Dwelling Thinking in a new and more performative way. It explores the meaning of two common things from the author’s own lifeworld/Lebenswelt (a small ball he uses in psychotherapy and his stethoscope he uses as a medical doctor). Both things create living relationships between human beings, things… Read more

Since ancient Greek philosophers like Gorgias, Plato or Aristotle called the art of poetry a (magic) form of fiction that contradicts scientific forms of knowledge, a historical abyss has been introduced between the arts and the sciences, which still haunts us today. It was Nietzsche who first questioned the legitimacy of this distinction by calling the sciences a… Read more

The specific art of the actor is an ecstatic kind of art which makes all body-soul antagonisms invalid. By the acting of actors it becomes evident that the body is in no case hiding inner values which then are attributed to the soul, and that outer spaces do not exist closed off and separated from the body. The body itself is expansion, open field, open space,… Read more

The practices of philosophy and the arts can meet in a fruitful way. The text describes and analyses examples of this encounter and tries to show how the experience in the arts (regardless if European or Asian) can open up new ways of thinking. At the University of Hildesheim the combination of philosophy and the arts is a part of the BA and MA-program in… Read more