THE
INSTITUTE WAS first established for the purpose of
gathering and directing the philosophically related efforts and
interests of independent, unaffiliated research societies dedicated
to phenomenological methods and inquiry. The societies and
associations addressed below (together with La Sociedad Ibero-Americana
de Fenomenologia) remain an important part of the Institute, and
together share in the greater whole of the world phenomenology
enterprise envisioned and achieved more than twenty-five years ago.
Membership Information
Persons interested in joining one of the
Institute’s affiliated research societies should select one of the
following:
__International Husserl and Phenomenological
Research Society
__International Society of
Phenomenology and Sciences of Life
__International Society of Phenomenology and Literature
__American Society for Phenomenology, Fine Arts, and Aesthetics
__Sociedad Ibero-Americana de Fenomenologia
Membership Form
and then send a one-year dues payment of $65.00 (USD) to: The World Phenomenology Institute, 1 Ivy Pointe Way, Hanover, New
Hampshire 03755, USA. All membership dues must be prepaid. Members
outside the U.S. must pay by International Postal Money Order.
Checks will be accepted only if they are drawn on a bank in the
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checks payable to "The World Phenomenology Institute."
Membership in an Institute research society
entitles members to the current year’s issue of the Institute journal,
Phenomenological Inquiry, as well as discounts for Institute
congresses and on recent volumes in the Institute’s Analecta
Husserliana yearbook series.
Letters to Institute-Affiliated Societies (2003)
Institute president Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
writes an annual letter to each of the four major affiliated
societies in which she reflects on the accomplishments of the year
gone by and sets the agenda for future research programs and
publications. Letters to the four principal Institute-affiliated
societies are collected below, and may serve as a form of
introduction to each society individually as well as to the
encompassing research efforts and achievements of the Institute
itself.
Letter to the International
Husserl
and Phenomenological Research Society
Board of Directors:
Richard Cobb-Stevens, Froacoice Dastur, +Erling Eng, Marcel
Francois, Ludwig Grunberg, Arion Kelkel, Maija Kule, Avelina Cecilia
Lafuente, Francois Laruelle, Dallas Laskey, Alphonso Lingis, Jualian
Marias, Gary Overvold.Secretary General: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
In this oldest society of our Institute nearly two
generations have passed in review in the pages of our Analecta
Husserliana volumes since 1969. I greet you all and thank you for your
collaboration and support in this work. You have made it grow to its
present stature. It is your accomplishment. I invite you to see the
extent of it on our new encyclopedia of phenomenological learning,
Phenomenology World Wide: Foundations -- Expanding Dynamics --
Life-engagements. A Guide for Research and Study. In a special
section at the end, the philosophical itinerary of this work of our is
outlined. Those who have participated in its programs are directly
there. All, however, who have contributed to our work will find
themselves in one way or another in the pages of the encyclopedia.
There will be several presentations of this book, among them, one in
Italy toward the end of March 2003 and a special roundtable during the
XXIst World Congress of Philosophy of the International Federation of
Philosophy Societies (FISP) in Istanbul, August 10-17, 2003.
We invite you most cordially to participate in the
World Phenomenology Institute's program at the Istanbul World
Congress. Our program's theme will be "Phenomenology of Life Meeting
the Challenges of the Contemporary World." We will have Sections of
Phenomenology, the Social Sciences, Education, Phenomenology/
Ontopoiesis of Life, Aesthetics, Phenomenology and Literature,
Phenomenology and the Fine Arts, Phenomenology and the Cognitive
Sciences, etc. There will be a roundtable on "Microcosm and Macrocosm,
a Pervading Historical Concern."
Please note in particular that registration
must be made with the FISP. Please do plan and act promptly. For all
correspondence concerning FISP registration, contact Turkiye Felsefe
Kurumu Dernegi, Ahmet Rasim Sokak 8/2, Cankaya, 06550, Ankara, TURKEY;
Fax: +90 312 441 02 97; e-mail: toc@tfk.org.tr. We would be pleased if
you would pre-register with us at the same time.
Now I come to the great event for which we are
planning for 2004, the World Phenomenology Institute's Third World
Congress of Phenomenology. Its theme will be "Phenomenology World Wide
at the Beginning of the Third Millennium." Sections on all current
sectors of phenomenological interest are proposed, and you are invited
yourself to propose as session, or roundtable, or discussion group.
The Congress will take place in Europe. We are
negotiating a venue and will post it on the Institute's website (www.phenomenology.
org).
We have come a long way, but an expanse still
beckons us.
The latest publications in our Analecta Husserliana
book series-- volumes on the phenomenology of medicine, the passions
of the earth, truth in ontopoietic perspective, the visible and the
invisible, etc.--are listed on the inside back cover.
Hoping to hear from you and to see you soon.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Letter to The International
Society
of Phenomenology and Literature
Board of Directors: Carmen Balzer, Cecile
Cloutier, +Veda Cobb- Stevens, Christopher Eykman, Sidney Feshbach,
L.M. Findlay, Jorge Garcia-Gomez, Thomas Haeussler, Laurence Kimmel,
Lois Oppenheim, Bernadette Prochaska, Hans Rudnick, Thomas Ryba, and
Jadwiga Smith.
President: Marlies Kronegger
Program Director: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Dear Colleagues, Coworkers, and Friends,
I report with pleasure the very lively and
fascinating meetings of our twenty-seventh annual conference, which
was held again at the Harvard Divinity School, May 8-9, 2002. The
topic, Mystery, drew both longtime friends and a host of new scholars,
all fascinated with the theme.
The sections delving into mystery each opened
interesting perspectives on how literature envisions life. From these
probings and the discussion they provoked there emerged the theme for
our next conference, "The Enigma of Good and Evil: the Moral Sentiment
in Literature." This topic appears to be particularly attractive to
scholars in literature for proposals for several papers were made as
soon as it was announced. To stimulate and inform your treatment of
the theme, I suggest you lookup my short treatise "The Passions of the
Soul and the Elements in the Ontopoiesis of Culture: the Life
Significance of Literature," in The Elemental Passions of the Soul,
Analecta Husserliana XXVIII (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1990).
The conference treating this theme will be held May
14 & 15, 2003 at the Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Abstracts are due February 15; and full papers are due
March 15. Owing to increases in the costs of mailing, etc., the
registration fee will be $125 US. That entitles you to also attend the
International Society for Phenomenology and the Fine Arts conference
that follows, May 16, 17, 18, 2003.
We invite old-timers and newcomers to join us for
this intellectually very promising event.
Please note in particular: In August 2003,
we shall hold a phenomenology and literature session in the course of
the World Phenomenology Institute's usual general program at the XXIst
World Congress of Philosophy organized by the International Federation
of Philosophical Societies (FISP). That event will take place in
Istanbul, Turkey, August 10-17, 2003.
This will be the Institute's LIIIrd International
Conference. Our general program addresses the topic, "Phenomenology of
Life Meeting the Challenges of the Contemporary World." Within the
circumference of this topic many themes are welcome. The program theme
may be addressed from various perspectives, but themes in other
registers may also be taken up. For now we can say there will be a
roundtable on "Microcosm and Macrocosm, a Pervading Historical
Concern."
You are most cordially invited to join us in this
provocative venture. Please do plan and act promptly. For all
correspondence concerning FISP registration, contact Turkiye Felsefe
Kurumu Dernegi, Ahmet Rasim Sokak 8/2, Cankaya, 06550, Ankara, TURKEY;
Fax: +90 312 441 02 97; e-mail: toc@tfk.org.tr. We would be pleased if
you would pre-register with us at the same time.
This year you must have be pleased to see several
of our books published: Life -- Energies, Forces, and the Shaping
of Life, Analecta Husserliana LXXIV; The Visible and the
Invisible in the Interplay between Philosophy, Literature, and
Reality, Analecta Husserliana LXXV; Life: Truth in Its Various
Perspectives -- Cognition, Self-Knowledge, Creativity, Scientific
Research, Sharing-in-Life, Economies..., Analecta Husserliana
LXXVI.
In addition, a very beautiful volume, Gardens
and the Passion for the Infinite, is now in production and will be
out in the very beginning of this year. It took longer to appear
because of the number of volumes we now publish and because we are
especially occupied with the time-consuming preparation of our
encyclopedia of phenomenological learning titled: Phenomenology
World Wide: Foundations -- Expanding Dynamics -- Life-engagements. A
Guide for Research and Study.
This truly indispensable research tool for all of
us is announced in detail in this volume. We know that this very
important work will find your favor and count on your urging your
librarian to acquire it for your school's library.
Looking forward to seeing you in Cambridge,
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Letter to the International
Society
for Phenomenology, Aesthetics,
and the Fine Arts
President. Marlies Kronegger
Secretary General: Patricia Trutty-Coohill
Program Coordinator: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Dear Friends,
This year's conference was held as usual just after
the International Society of Phenomenology and Literature conference
and again at the Harvard Divinity School. It was truly a reunion of
friends, but there were also many newcomers. Discussion was lively on
our theme "Metamorphosis Revisited," which proved to be a particularly
intriguing one for the plastic arts. The exchange of ideas was
spellbinding. Afterwards it continued as the Society's Secretary
General Patricia Trutty-Coohill, an art historian, dialoged with
several speakers through e-mail. Our dearest President, Marlies
Kronegger, was with us, and we all enjoyed the camaraderie of old
familiars.
This coming year's conference will be on a theme
that flows from the assembly's chief interest, namely, the intriguing
relationship between "Beauty, Truth and Goodness." The subtitle
"Aesthetics at the Crossroads" addresses present day issues, issues
that provide the theme for the conference's sections:
1. How do we distinguish between "artistic" and
"aesthetic" values?
2. Which accomplishes the accomplishment of a work
of art, aesthetic or artistic value?
3. Is the realization of beauty essential to the
aesthetic experience in the creative process, on the one hand and in
the recipient's experience, on the other?
4. How do we experience ugliness? Is not the cult
of ugliness in contemporary art a symptom of the revolt against moral
values and sentiments?
5. May a work of art presenting ugliness have an
aesthetic value?
6. Perspectives on the beautiful and the ugly in
classic and contemporary art.
7. What do we consider "truth" and "falsehood" in
plastic art? (Portraiture, historical paintings, apotheosis and
ridicule, etc. The hidden structure of reality, its forms, etc.)
8. What makes a work of art "great"? It certainly
is great insofar as it is capable of inspiring sublime sentiments. Is
this inspirational virtuality not based on an amalgam of experiences
of the beautiful, true, and good?
The Conference will take place as usual at the
Harvard Divinity School, May 16, 17, 18, 2003. Abstracts are due
February 15; and full papers are due March 15. Owing to increases in
the costs of mailing, etc., the registration fee will be $125 US.
Please note in particular: In August 2003, at
the XXIst World Congress of Philosophy organized by the International
Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP), the World Phenomenology
Institute's usual program shall have a session devoted to
phenomenology and the fine arts. Patricia Trutty-Coohill is directing
this session. Please contact her about participation.
That Congress will take place in Istanbul, Turkey
August 10-17, 2003. This will be the Institute's LIIIrd International
Conference. Our general theme is "Phenomenology of Life Meeting the
Challenges of the Contemporary World." The Phenomenology and the
Fine Arts section will ponder a question so striking in present-day
art, "Cult of the Beautiful or Cult of the Ugly?" It is related
to the theme of our May meeting. You are invited to bring your lights
to this important issue for our culture.
You are most cordially invited to join us in these
provocative ventures. Please do plan and act promptly. For all
correspondence concerning FISP registration, contact Turkiye Felsefe
Kurumu Dernegi, Ahmet Rasim Sokak 8/2, Cankaya, 06550, Ankara, TURKEY;
Fax: +90 312 441 02 97; e-mail: toc@tfk.org.tr. We would be pleased if
you would pre-register with Professor Trutty-Coohill at the same time.
Our authors have already received the complimentary
volume The Visible and the Invisible in the interplay between
Philosophy, Literature, and Reality, Analecta Husserliana LXXV,
and offprints of their articles therein.
Thanking you most sincerely for your precious
collaboration in our task of renewing our view of the world and of
life through art, and hoping to hear from you soon.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Letter to The International
Society
for Phenomenology and the Sciences of Life
President: Francesco Totem, University of Macerate
Secretary General: Daniela Verducci, University of Macerate
Program Director: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, WPI
Dear Colleagues, Friends, Supporters,
This has been an eventful scholarly year for us.
First of all, the World Phenomenology Institute held its LIInd
International Phenomenology Conference in Rome. The site and
conditions we had at the Angelicum and the Polish Academy of Sciences
were so exceptional. It was truly an intellectual and aesthetic
feast.
The theme was the central issue of phenomenology/ontopoiesis
of life, namely, "The Creative Experience in the Ontopoiesis of Life,"
around which we gathered not only a substantial amount of work
treating the subject directly but also inspiring peripheral studies,
both theoretical and historical.
Secondly, we have -- at long last -- finished the
editing and proofreading of our encyclopedia of phenomenological
learning, Phenomenology World Wide: Foundations -- Expanding
Dynamics -- Life-engagements. A Guide for Research and Study. This
opus is the fruit of the efforts of many of you. Your expertise has
produced an excellent and unique "Guide to Research and Study of
Phenomenology." In the name of the Institute, I thank all for their
contributions to this magnificent achievement. Urge your librarian to
obtain it for your university library! It is a must for teaching the
range of phenomenology.
The papers of the Krakow conference are already out
in two volumes, and we are processing for publication those of our
2002 Roman conference on "The Controversy Over the Existence of the
World." You may expect it within some seven months.
We have published this year two volumes that will
awaken your interest. One is on what has become an elusive issue in
our day, the question of truth: Life -- Truth in its Various
Perspectives. Cognition, Self-Knowledge, Creativity, Scientific,
Research, Sharing-in-Life. Economics. Furthermore, and this
should intrigue especially the Merleau-Ponty scholars among you, the
other volume is The Visible and the Invisible in the Interplay
between Philosophy, Literature, Reality. I hope your library
subscribes to our Analecta Husserliana book series. If not, prompt
your librarian to acquire it, and especially our Encyclopedia!
Our International Phenomenology Conference of 2003
will be held in conjunction with the XXIst World Congress of
Philosophy of the International Federation of Philosophy Societies (FISP),
to be held August 10-17, 2003 in Istanbul.
Our program's theme will be "Phenomenology of Life
Meeting the Challenges of the Contemporary World." We will have
Sections on Phenomenology, the Social Sciences, Education,
Phenomenology/ Ontopoiesis of life, Aesthetics, Phenomenology and
Literature, Phenomenology and the Fine Arts, Phenomenology and the
Cognitive Sciences, etc. There will be a roundtable on "Microcosm and
Macrocosm, a Pervading Historical Concern." You are cordially invited
to participate with a contribution on a subject close to your heart.
Please do plan and act promptly. For all
correspondence concerning FISP registration, contact Turkiye Felsefe
Kurumu Dernegi, Ahmet Rasim Sokak 8/2, Cankaya, 06550, Ankara, TURKEY;
Fax: +90 312 441 02 97; e-mail: toc@tfk.org.tr. We would be pleased if
you would pre-register with us at the same time.
Last, but not least, we are negotiating
preparations for the Institute's Third Congress of Phenomenology. The
first was held in Santiago de Compostela in September 1988 and its
proceedings appeared in Vols. XXXIV-XXXVII of our Analecta Husserliana
series. The second was held in Guadalajara, Mexico in September 1995
and its proceedings appeared in Vols. LII-LV of our Analecta
Husserliana series. We will soon give the venue and other details of
the third (consult our Institute website: www.phenomenology.org). At
the meeting in Istanbul we will be discussing the program of our Third
World Congress.
See you there!
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
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