O TOM, CO VIDÍME V MLZE. FENOMENOLOGICKÁ ESEJ O NEPŘEDSTAVITELNOSTI NELIDSKÉHO

• Authors: Martin Nitsche

Title variants

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On what we can see in the fog. A phenomenological essay on the inconceivable of non-human

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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The main goal of this paper is to analyse the inconceivable of non-human (e.g. animal, angelic, etc.). The essay distinguishes two approaches to this inconceivable, a negative and a positive one. The negative approach (connected here with the “linear” model of perception) denies the inconceivable, and tries to convert it into some kind of representation (e.g. Descartes’s chimeras). The positive approach (connected to the “topological” model of perception) accepts to some extent the inconceivable of non-human, but it overcomes at the same time the conception of representation as such. The question is then, how depiction and imagination should be explained in the framework of the topological model of perception. As an example of a topological perception, the essay analyses the experience of perceiving in the fog.

Keywords

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PHENOMENOLOGICAL TOPOLOGY; IMAGINATION; NON-HUMAN; INCONCEIVABLE

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 69
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 604 – 612

Contributors

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Martin Nitsche

• Filosofický ústav Akademie věd ČR, Praha, Czech Repubic