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Papers by Stefano Micali
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Science, 215-234, 2013
In this article the author seeks to highlight a specific disorder related to bodily experience in... more In this article the author seeks to highlight a specific disorder related to bodily experience in melancholia conceived as a severe form of clinical depression. The article is divided into three parts. In the first section, the author investigates the intersubjective dimension of bodily experience in light of the categories of Außenand Innenleiblichkeit. In the second section, I explore a specific disturbance of the dimension of intercorporeality. The excessive feeling of the bodily (außenleibliche) visibility of his/her own sufferance is a fundamental aspect of depression. At a prereflexive level, we constantly assume the noncoincidence between one's own bodily expression and the Other's experience/reading of these expressions. An alteration of this (pre-reflexive) awareness occurs in melancholia. The patient feels as if the melancholic condition would be transparent to the other. In the third section, the author intends to show the alteration of the embodied communication between the melancholic person and the other investigating two particular phenomena: the exchange of gaze in a face to face encounter, and the disturbance of the oral sense, revealing a specific form of irresponsiveness and the experience of void.
One of the most problematic issues with regard to Husserl’s phenomenology of time concerns the de... more One of the most problematic issues with regard to Husserl’s phenomenology of time concerns the definition of the relationship between the time of the intentional acts and the absolute pre-phenomenal flow of time constituting consciousness. In this regard, Brough distinguishes between the intentional acts (such as perception and recollection) and the specific dimension of the absolute flow of time-consciousness in terms of a distinction between two different levels. In the book Self-awareness and Alterity, Zahavi questions the validity of this distinction: the inner time-consciousness should not be regarded as an additional flow aware of the intentional act, but it is nothing but the pre-reflective self-awareness of the act. Despite essential differences, a common presupposition characterizes both of the above mentioned interpretations of the absolute time-constituting flow: the absolute flow is indifferent to the acts; it always flows in the same way, automatically; the form of the absolute flow is unchangeable. In my essay I will challenge the validity of this thesis from two different angles: (1) I will show the essential ambiguity of Husserl’s configuration of the absolute flow not only in the context of the Zeitvorlesungen 1905, but also in relation to the Bernauer Manuskripte. (2) I will take into consideration Husserl’s analyses of specific temporal experiences: the time of the unclear Phantasia and the experience of the radically new.
La phénoménologie entend décrire l'expérience dans ses modalités d'apparition les plus originaire... more La phénoménologie entend décrire l'expérience dans ses modalités d'apparition les plus originaires. La description des modalités d'apparition de l'expérience entraîne une transformation des catégories fondamentales de la tradition philosophique. Cet essai a pour but de montrer la fécondité de l'approche phénoménologique en relation à une catégorie fondamentale de la métaphysique : la catégorie du néant. L'étude se compose de deux parties. Dans la première, nous entendons montrer la transformation de la catégorie du néant d'un point de vue phénoménologique, notamment au moyen d'une confrontation avec le texte heideggérien Was ist Metaphysik ? 1 Dans la seconde, nous essayerons d'analyser une modalité du néant qui concerne une dimension temporelle tout à fait spécifique : l'incinération absolue du passé.
Filosofia e Teologia, 114-125, 2010
Il fine del presente articolo è quello di descrivere da un punto di vista fenomenologico le compl... more Il fine del presente articolo è quello di descrivere da un punto di vista fenomenologico le complesse relazioni che si instaurano tra il futuro, il passato e il presente all'interno di un'esperienza specifica: la preghiera che sorge dalla disperazione nel contesto della religione cristiana. Il punto di partenza del presente saggio è costituito dalla definizione di Dio data Kierkegaard: "Dio è che tutto è possibile e che tutto è possibile, è Dio." Una volta stabilito che la preghiera cristiana presuppone Dio come "che tutto è possibile", preciseremo le diverse forme di diacronia che caratterizzano il modo in cui il credente si rivolge a Dio. In questo contesto mostreremo anche come la preghiera che sorge dalla disperazione presenti una tensione tra due istanze contrapposte. Da una parte nella preghiera si manifesta una fiducia incondizionata a Chi ci ascolta: abbiate fede di averlo già ottenuto e vi sarà accordato. La fede si fonda su un credere ad un futuro che paradossalmente deve essere già considerato passato per poter avvenire. Dall'altra parte vi è una istanza di segno contrario che si esprime nelle parole: "Non sia fatta la mia volontà, ma la Tua."
Fuchs Th., Micali St., 2013
in: Intorno a Jean Luc Nancy, ed. by U. Perone, 64-72., 2012
Das leidende Subjekt, ed. by Thomas Fuchs, Thiemo Breyer, Stefano Micali, Boris Wandruszka, Alber Verlag, 164-179., 2014
Mensch und Zeit Studien zur Interdisziplinären Anthropologie, Springer Verlag, 185-203, Oct 2014
Investigating Subjectivity . p. 165-180, LEIDEN:Brill
Philosophische Rundschau, 59 135-159., 2012
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Science, 215-234, 2013
In this article the author seeks to highlight a specific disorder related to bodily experience in... more In this article the author seeks to highlight a specific disorder related to bodily experience in melancholia conceived as a severe form of clinical depression. The article is divided into three parts. In the first section, the author investigates the intersubjective dimension of bodily experience in light of the categories of Außenand Innenleiblichkeit. In the second section, I explore a specific disturbance of the dimension of intercorporeality. The excessive feeling of the bodily (außenleibliche) visibility of his/her own sufferance is a fundamental aspect of depression. At a prereflexive level, we constantly assume the noncoincidence between one's own bodily expression and the Other's experience/reading of these expressions. An alteration of this (pre-reflexive) awareness occurs in melancholia. The patient feels as if the melancholic condition would be transparent to the other. In the third section, the author intends to show the alteration of the embodied communication between the melancholic person and the other investigating two particular phenomena: the exchange of gaze in a face to face encounter, and the disturbance of the oral sense, revealing a specific form of irresponsiveness and the experience of void.
One of the most problematic issues with regard to Husserl’s phenomenology of time concerns the de... more One of the most problematic issues with regard to Husserl’s phenomenology of time concerns the definition of the relationship between the time of the intentional acts and the absolute pre-phenomenal flow of time constituting consciousness. In this regard, Brough distinguishes between the intentional acts (such as perception and recollection) and the specific dimension of the absolute flow of time-consciousness in terms of a distinction between two different levels. In the book Self-awareness and Alterity, Zahavi questions the validity of this distinction: the inner time-consciousness should not be regarded as an additional flow aware of the intentional act, but it is nothing but the pre-reflective self-awareness of the act. Despite essential differences, a common presupposition characterizes both of the above mentioned interpretations of the absolute time-constituting flow: the absolute flow is indifferent to the acts; it always flows in the same way, automatically; the form of the absolute flow is unchangeable. In my essay I will challenge the validity of this thesis from two different angles: (1) I will show the essential ambiguity of Husserl’s configuration of the absolute flow not only in the context of the Zeitvorlesungen 1905, but also in relation to the Bernauer Manuskripte. (2) I will take into consideration Husserl’s analyses of specific temporal experiences: the time of the unclear Phantasia and the experience of the radically new.
La phénoménologie entend décrire l'expérience dans ses modalités d'apparition les plus originaire... more La phénoménologie entend décrire l'expérience dans ses modalités d'apparition les plus originaires. La description des modalités d'apparition de l'expérience entraîne une transformation des catégories fondamentales de la tradition philosophique. Cet essai a pour but de montrer la fécondité de l'approche phénoménologique en relation à une catégorie fondamentale de la métaphysique : la catégorie du néant. L'étude se compose de deux parties. Dans la première, nous entendons montrer la transformation de la catégorie du néant d'un point de vue phénoménologique, notamment au moyen d'une confrontation avec le texte heideggérien Was ist Metaphysik ? 1 Dans la seconde, nous essayerons d'analyser une modalité du néant qui concerne une dimension temporelle tout à fait spécifique : l'incinération absolue du passé.
Filosofia e Teologia, 114-125, 2010
Il fine del presente articolo è quello di descrivere da un punto di vista fenomenologico le compl... more Il fine del presente articolo è quello di descrivere da un punto di vista fenomenologico le complesse relazioni che si instaurano tra il futuro, il passato e il presente all'interno di un'esperienza specifica: la preghiera che sorge dalla disperazione nel contesto della religione cristiana. Il punto di partenza del presente saggio è costituito dalla definizione di Dio data Kierkegaard: "Dio è che tutto è possibile e che tutto è possibile, è Dio." Una volta stabilito che la preghiera cristiana presuppone Dio come "che tutto è possibile", preciseremo le diverse forme di diacronia che caratterizzano il modo in cui il credente si rivolge a Dio. In questo contesto mostreremo anche come la preghiera che sorge dalla disperazione presenti una tensione tra due istanze contrapposte. Da una parte nella preghiera si manifesta una fiducia incondizionata a Chi ci ascolta: abbiate fede di averlo già ottenuto e vi sarà accordato. La fede si fonda su un credere ad un futuro che paradossalmente deve essere già considerato passato per poter avvenire. Dall'altra parte vi è una istanza di segno contrario che si esprime nelle parole: "Non sia fatta la mia volontà, ma la Tua."
Fuchs Th., Micali St., 2013
in: Intorno a Jean Luc Nancy, ed. by U. Perone, 64-72., 2012
Das leidende Subjekt, ed. by Thomas Fuchs, Thiemo Breyer, Stefano Micali, Boris Wandruszka, Alber Verlag, 164-179., 2014
Mensch und Zeit Studien zur Interdisziplinären Anthropologie, Springer Verlag, 185-203, Oct 2014
Investigating Subjectivity . p. 165-180, LEIDEN:Brill
Philosophische Rundschau, 59 135-159., 2012