Unowned area as a source of mental life: Nietzsche, Scheler, Wittgenstein, Goffman Cover Image

Sfera niczyja jako źródło życia psychicznego: Nietzsche, Scheler, Wittgenstein, Goffman
Unowned area as a source of mental life: Nietzsche, Scheler, Wittgenstein, Goffman

Author(s): Katarzyna Gurczyńska-Sady
Subject(s): Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Epistemology, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Special Branches of Philosophy, Existentialism, Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Hermeneutics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: knowledge of other; knowledge of I; experiences; emotions; sensations; language game; social game; Nietzsche; Scheler; Wittgenstein; Goffman

Summary/Abstract: Traditionally mental life of the person goes into “seclusion” called his/her interior. It is believed that because of its secret nature of the it and because it is not immediately given to other subject who may – at best – guess of what “goes in”. Free access one has got only to his/her own experiences (feelings, emotions, thoughts etc.). In the twentieth century (and a bit earlier) this traditional view is criticized and changed. As a fruit of this criticism emerged the opposite trend: the knowledge of both my and his/her inner experience is explain by introducing an element that allows this knowledge and is placed outside any of them. I call it the impersonal sphere of nobody – supra-individual matrix of the knowledge of my and his/her mental life. In this article I try to indicate the origin of the idea of this sphere giving its main characteristics. A description is based on the views of known philosophers: Nietzsche, Scheler and Wittgenstein and one sociologist – Goffman.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 35
  • Page Range: 45-67
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Polish