Table Of ContentContributions To Phenomenology 69
Michael Barber
Jochen Dreher Editors
The
Interrelation of
Phenomenology,
Social Sciences
and the Arts
The Interrelation of Phenomenology,
Social Sciences and the Arts
CONTRIBUTIONSTOPHENOMENOLOGY
INCOOPERATIONWITH
THECENTERFORADVANCEDRESEARCHINPHENOMENOLOGY
Volume69
SeriesEditors:
NicolasdeWarren,KatholikeUniversiteitLeuven,Belgium
DermotMoran,DublinUniversity,Ireland
EditorialBoard:
LilianAlweiss,TrinityCollegeDublin,Ireland
ElizabethBehnke,Ferndale,WA,USA
MichaelBarber,St.LouisUniversity,MO,USA
RudolfBernet,Husserl-Archief,KatholiekeUniversiteitLeuven,Belgium
DavidCarr,EmoryUniversity,GA,USA
Chan-FaiCheung,ChineseUniversityHongKong,China
JamesDodd,NewSchoolUniversity,NY,USA
LesterEmbree,FloridaAtlanticUniversity,FL,USA
AlfredoFerrarin,Universita`diPisa,Italy
BurtHopkins,SeattleUniversity,WA,USA
Jose´Huertas-Jourda,WilfridLaurierUniversity,Canada
Kwok-YingLau,ChineseUniversityHongKong,China
Nam-InLee,SeoulNationalUniversity,Korea
DieterLohmar,Universita¨tzuKo¨ln,Germany
WilliamR.McKenna,MiamiUniversity,OH,USA
AlgisMickunas,OhioUniversity,OH,USA
J.N.Mohanty,TempleUniversity,PA,USA
JunichiMurata,UniversityofTokyo,Japan
ThomasNenon,TheUniversityofMemphis,TN,USA
ThomasM.Seebohm,JohannesGutenberg-Universita¨t,Germany
GailSoffer,Rome,Italy
AnthonySteinbock,SouthernIllinoisUniversityatCarbondale,IL,USA
ShigeruTaguchi,YamagataUniversity,Japan
DanZahavi,UniversityofCopenhagen,Denmark
RichardM.Zaner,VanderbiltUniversity,TN,USA
Scope
Thepurposeoftheseriesistoserveasavehicleforthepursuitofphenomenologicalresearch
acrossabroadspectrum,includingcross-overdevelopmentswithotherfieldsofinquiry
suchasthesocialsciencesandcognitivescience.Sinceitsestablishmentin1987,Contributions
toPhenomenologyhaspublishednearly60titlesondiversethemesofphenomenologicalphilosophy.Inadditionto
welcomingmonographsandcollectionsofpapersinestablishedareasofscholarship,
theseriesencouragesoriginalworkinphenomenology.ThebreadthanddepthoftheSeriesreflectstherichandvaried
significanceofphenomenologicalthinkingforseminalquestionsofhumaninquiryaswellastheincreasingly
internationalreachofphenomenologicalresearch.
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MichaelBarber JochenDreher
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Contents
Introduction ...................................................................... 1
MichaelBarberandJochenDreher
PartI AestheticsandtheSocialSciences
Irrelevant Spheres and Vacancies of Artworks:
PhenomenologicalAestheticsRevisited........................................ 11
MasatoKimura
CulturalScienceinLiteraryLight............................................. 21
LesterEmbree
Projection, Imagination, and Novelty: Towards a Theory
ofCreativeActionBasedonSchutz............................................ 31
HubertKnoblauch
ImaginationandtheSocialSciences ........................................... 51
HisashiNasu
FunctionalPurposelessness:The“PracticalMeaning”ofAesthetics...... 69
Hans-GeorgSoeffner
ArtasaParadoxicalFormofCommunication ............................... 83
IljaSrubar
When Sociology Meets the Work of Art: Analytical
FrameworkstoStudyArtisticProductionandReception................... 95
AnnaLisaTota
PartII Literature
Crossing the Finite Provinces of Meaning: Experience
andMetaphorizingofLiteratureandArts.................................... 117
GerdSebald
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Sancho Panza and Don Quixote: The Documentary
andthePhenomenologicalMethodsofAnalyzingWorksofArt ........... 129
AmaliaBarboza
LiteratureasSocietalTherapy:Appresentation,Epoche´,andBeloved.... 143
MichaelBarber
The Man Without Qualities and the Problem of Multiple
Realities:AlfredSchutzandRobertMusilRevisited ........................ 157
MartinEndress
EntangledintoHistoriesortheNarrativeGroundsofMultiple
Realities ........................................................................... 173
AnnetteHilt
“TheUniversethatOthersCalltheLibrary”:Reconstructing
theSymbolicMystificationsoftheWorldofEverydayLife................. 195
JochenDreher
PartIII Music
TheTuning-inRelationship:FromaSocialTheoryofMusic
TowardsaPhilosophicalUnderstandingofIntersubjectivity............... 209
CarlosBelvedere
MutualTuning-InRelationshipsandPhenomenologicalPsychology...... 229
Chung-ChiYu
Music,Meaning,andSociality:FromtheStandpointofaSocial
Phenomenologist ................................................................. 243
AndreasGoettlich
ArtisticPractice,Methodology,andSubjectivity:The“ICan”
asPracticalPossibilityandOriginalConsciousness ......................... 259
AndreasGeorgStascheit
MusicalFoundationofInteraction:MusicasIntermediaryMedium...... 267
MototakaMori
PartIV FilmandPhotography
InterpretingFilm:TheCaseofCasablanca................................... 281
GeorgePsathas
APhenomenologicalInquiryofRashomon ................................... 295
Ken’ichiKawano
Contents vii
TheArtofMakingPhotos:SomePhenomenologicalReflections........... 311
ThomasS.Eberle
AuthorIndex...................................................................... 321
SubjectIndex..................................................................... 325
Introduction
MichaelBarberandJochenDreher
Thepapersinthisvolumewerepresentedattheinternationalandinterdisciplinary
conference “Phenomenology, Social Sciences, and the Arts,” and they focus on
the specific interrelationship of a philosophical, epistemological position and a
particular social scientific perspective with distinct analytical potential to investi-
gate art phenomena. The phenomenological perspective allows reflection on the
subjective point of view of artists and interpreters because of its reflections on
the eidetic features of consciousness and on such objective structures as the field
of aesthetics, communication, meaning, finite provinces of meaning, music, and
literature, because all of these structures lend themselves to the kind of eidetic,
oressential-philosophicalanalysisforwhichphenomenologyisknown.Thesocial
scienceperspectivebycontrastexaminestheempirical,socio-historicpreconditions
of the triad: artist and interpreter, and the objectified work of art. The theory of
the life-world developed in the interface of phenomenology and social sciences,
viaaneideticphenomenologicalanalysis,allowsaninterpretationofdiversereality
spheres involved in the work of art, thus describing the symbolically established
meaningstructurewhichisresponsibleforthefunctionoftheartworkassuch.
Themostsignificantsocialscientistandphilosopherdedicatedtotheanalysisof
interrelations between phenomenology and social science was Alfred Schutz, the
fiftiethanniversaryofwhosedeathwascommemoratedatthisconference.Aspart
of his work he used phenomenology to describe the epistemological foundations
of social science, in particular Max Weber’s concept of social action, which he
took to be the nucleus of social science. Furthermore, Schutz developed a theory
ofthelife-world,aswellasatheoryofsignandsymbol,andanaccountofmultiple
M.Barber((cid:2))
Philosophy,St.LouisUniversity,Lindell3800,St.Louis63156-0907,USA
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realities – all of which especially serve the interpretation of art phenomena; in
relation to this, Schutz’s work on literature and music, in particular, became most
crucial. Especially well-known among researchers in phenomenology and social
sciencearehisanalysesofmultiplerealitysphereswithinDonQuixote,aswellas
hisinterpretationofMozart’soperas.Onecentralthesissupportedbythetheoretical
frameworkoftheconferenceandinthisbookisthattheanalysisofproduction,as
wellastheperceptionandinterpretationofartwork,needstotakeintoconsideration
thesubjectiveviewpointoftheartist,inadditiontothatoftheinterpreter.
Alsorelyingontheeideticallydepictedlife-worldthatincludesthesubjectively
centered viewpoints of individuals inhabiting various provinces of meaning, phe-
nomenologyanalyzestheessential,philosophicalfeaturesofliterature,literaryarts
forms and their relationships to social sciences, art as communication, creative
action, imagination, the aesthetic sphere, narrative, symbol systems, metaphor,
finiteprovincesofmeaning,intersubjectiverelationships,artisiticvalue,thevisual
arts, music, and the practicing of music. The perspective of social science, by
contrast, discloses the empirical, socio-historical conditions at play in the creation
and reception of the art work. Weberian social science, though, examines such
conditionsastheyappearinthemeaningwhichactorsgivetotheiractsasopposed
to the meaning that an observer might give to such acts and thereby converges
with a phenomenological focus on consciousness. The specific theoretical focus
which combines both the disciplines of phenomenology and social science offers
an innovative framework for the analysis of art phenomena, and makes possible a
creativeinterpretationofavarietyofdistinctartformsandworks,inadditiontothe
realizationoftheoreticalreflectionsontheinterdependenceofarts,phenomenology,
andsocialscience.
The conference was unique in that junior scholars presented papers on which
senior scholars commented. This volume begins with several papers focusing
on general questions of the nature of aesthetics and the relationship between
phenomenology,thesocialsciences,andthearts.Asecondsectionpresentsvarious
papersonliterature,athirdsectiontreatsmusic,andafourthfilmandphotography.
Several authors discuss the character of aesthetics and its relationship to social
scienceandphenomenology.MasatoKimuraauthorstheessay“IrrelevantSpheres
and Vacancies of Artworks” which reviews the aesthetical theories of W. Conrad
and R. Ingarden, both of whom battled psychologistic approaches to art. Their
views, which recognize the “blanks” in works of art, open the door to the
Konstanz reception theory of literature that involves an interplay, fitting for a
phenomenological approach, between object and subject, between art work and
interpreter, whose relevance-system, as Schutz described it, plays a crucial role in
interpretation. In his essay, “Cultural Science in Literary Light,” Lester Embree
develops a Wissenschaftslehre by showing how the three literary art-forms that
Schutz treats in his outline “Sociological Aspects of Literature,” namely, poetry,
drama, and the novel can be correlated with and can illuminate the cultural sci-
ences of psychology, social science, and history. Hubert Knoblauch’s “Projection,
Imagination, and Novelty: Toward a Theory of Creative Action Based in Schutz,”
develops Schutz’s theory of action by showing how it might be of use to explain
