Creativity and Dynamism contra Idealism. Imagination in Anna Teresa Tymieniecka’s Concept of Phenomenology of Life Cover Image

Twórczość i dynamizm contra idealizm. Wyobraźnia w fenomenologii życia Anny Teresy Tymienieckiej
Creativity and Dynamism contra Idealism. Imagination in Anna Teresa Tymieniecka’s Concept of Phenomenology of Life

Author(s): Magdalena Mruszczyk
Subject(s): History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Special Branches of Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Imaginatio Creatrix; the creative act; the logos of life; the transcendental Consciousness; the intentionality

Summary/Abstract: Anna Teresa Tymieniecka’s (1923—2014) concept of phenomenology of life appears as a cosmological perspective of the development of phenomenology in general. Although Polish philosopher elaborated this conception in polemic with Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological view and in co-operation with the natural sciences, she tried to keep all the gains of classical phenomenology. Ultimately, she subjected the transcendental consciousness to verification, pointing its stability as a result of the intentionality of cognition, which Husserl considered as the constitutive function of the subject. By changing the perspective, Tymieniecka was striving to demonstrate that the subject — the living human being — gives the world the sense of meaning and knows it as originally inspired and motivated by his imagination. Therefore, the creative imagination — Imaginatuio Creatrix — should be established as a dynamic source of the constitution of the human world.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 38
  • Page Range: 147-156
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish