THE CRISIS OF CULTURE

THE CRISIS OF CULTURE

ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH VOLUME V Editor: ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA

THE CRISIS OF CULTURE STEPS TO REOPEN THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF MAN The Modalities of Human Life, the Irreducible in Values and Their Fluctuating Framework of Reference, from Reason to Action, Alienation and Belonging Papers and Debate of the Third International Conference Held by the International Hussed and Phenomenological Research Society at Sir George Williams University and the University of Montreal, Montreal, March 26-30, 1974 Edited by ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY DORDRECHT-HOLLAND / BOSTON-U.S.A.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: The Crisis of culture. (Analecta HusserIiana; v. 5) English or French. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Man - Congresses. 2. Phenomenology - Congresses. 3. HusserI, Edmund, 1859-1938 - Congresses. I. Tymieniecka, Anna Teresa. II. International HusserI and Phenomenological Research Society. III. Series. B3279.H94B129 vol. 5 [BD450j 142'.7s [128] ISBN-13: 978-94-010-1448-9 e-isbn-13: 978-94-010-1446-5 001: 10.1007/001: 10.10071 Published by D. Reidel Publishing Company, P.O. Box 17, Dordrecht, Holland Sold and distributed in the U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Inc. Lincoln Building, 160 Old Derby Street, Hingham, Mass. 02043, U.S.A. All Rights Reserved Copyright 1976 by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any informational storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner

TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IX INAUGURAL LECTURE: THE INITIAL SPONTANEITY ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA Prologue Initial Spontaneity and the Modalities of Human Life DISCUSSION 3 15 39 PART lithe MODALITIES OF HUMAN LIFE CLA UDE LEVESQUE I The World-Remoteness of the Text 53 ROBERT D. SWEENEY I Affectivity and the Life World 71 DAVID CARR I Special Contribution to the Debate: On History and the Life-W orid 83 SERGE MORIN I Special Contribution to the Debate: A Return to Experience or How to Kick the Habit 87 DISCUSSION 99 PART III RUPTURE AND RECONSTRUCTION WLADYSLA W STR6zEWSKI I Man and Values in Ingarden's Thought 109 MICHEL MASSON I Continuite et discontinuite des valeurs 125 HENNING L. MEYN I Values and the Life-World in the Problem of the Crisis 137 ALBER T SHALOM I Identite personelle et la temporalite du moi 149 M.C. DILLON I Special Contribution to the Debate: Theoria, Praxis, and the Crisis 179

VI TABLE OF CONTENTS PART III / ALIENATION-BELONGING KENLEY R. DOVE / Alienation and the Concept of Modernity 187 LOUIS DUPRE / The Religious Crisis of Our Culture 205 MILDRED BAKAN / Special Contribution to the Debate: Alienation and the Interpretative Framework 219 DISCUSSION 227 PART IV / FROM REASON TO ACTION MIKEL DUFRENNE / Phenomenologie et esthetique 241 PHILIBER T SECRET AN / Personne, individu et responsabilite chez Edith Stein 247 DA VID M. RASMUSSEN / The Quest for Valid Knowledge in the Context of Society 259 KARDINAL KAROL WOJTYLA / Special Contribution to the Debate: The Intentional Act and the Human Act, that is, Act and Experience 269 FRANCIS F. SEEBURGER/ Special Contribution to the Debate: The Conversion of Nature and Technology 281 DISCUSSION 291 PART V / COMPLEMENTARY ESSAYS ANGELA ALES BELLO / Culture and Utopia in the Phenomenological Perspective 305 EFRAIM SHMUELI / Consciousness and Action: HusserI and Marx on Theory and Praxis 343 CLOSING REMARKS 383

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Debate of the Conference was prepared for publication by PROFESSOR D. N. K. DARNOI of Monmouth College, N.J. I wish to express my thanks to Prof. Dallas Laskey of Concordia University and Prof. Venant Cauchy of the University of Montreal for their collaboration as well as to Canada Council for its financial support. I am especially grateful to Mr. Lionel Laliberte, graduate student of Philosophy, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec for his most generous dedication to our task. I am greatly indebted to Prof. D. N. K. Darnoi for his dedicated and most expert collaboration and to Monmouth College, New Jersey, for contributing towards editorial expenses. A.-T. TYMIENmCKA