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Introduction: Phenomenology and Literature

Introduction: Phenomenology and Literature Introduction Phenomenology and Literature Aurélien Dijan Université de Lille UMR 8163 (STL) aurelien.djian@hotmail.fr Reception date: 11-08-2021 Acceptance date: 18-08-2021 1. Does phenomenology have anything to say about literature? At first sight, such a question could appear (at best) as naive, and (at worst) as utterly artificial. For it is a fact that some phenomenologists “talked” about “literature”. But what does “talking about literature”, and “literature” itself, mean, in this context? — First, “literature” does not refer to what Husserl calls “the broadest concept of literature”, which encompasses “a whole class of spiritual products of the cultural world, to which not only all scientific constructions and the sciences themselves belong but also, for example, the constructions of fine literature” (Husserl, 1976: 368/356-357). In other words, geometrical, mathematical, physical, anthropological, psychological, or sociological, treatises, but also philosophical essays, and even novels, poems, plays, autobiographies, biographies, are all, qua cultural products, good examples of “literature” (in this first sense), as soon as “it belongs to their objective being that they be linguistically expressed and can be expressed again and again; or, more precisely, they have their objectivity, their existence-for-everyone, only as signification, as the meaning of speech” (Husserl, 1976: 368/357). “Literature”, then, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Phainomenon de Gruyter

Introduction: Phenomenology and Literature

Dijan, Aurélien
Phainomenon , Volume 32 (1): 10 – Dec 1, 2021
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Introduction Phenomenology and Literature Aurélien Dijan Université de Lille UMR 8163 (STL) aurelien.djian@hotmail.fr Reception date: 11-08-2021 Acceptance date: 18-08-2021 1. Does phenomenology have anything to say about literature? At first sight, such a question could appear (at best) as naive, and (at worst) as utterly artificial. For it is a fact that some phenomenologists “talked” about “literature”. But what does “talking about literature”, and “literature” itself, mean, in this context? — First, “literature” does not refer to what Husserl calls “the broadest concept of literature”, which encompasses “a whole class of spiritual products of the cultural world, to which not only all scientific constructions and the sciences themselves belong but also, for example, the constructions of fine literature” (Husserl, 1976: 368/356-357). In other words, geometrical, mathematical, physical, anthropological, psychological, or sociological, treatises, but also philosophical essays, and even novels, poems, plays, autobiographies, biographies, are all, qua cultural products, good examples of “literature” (in this first sense), as soon as “it belongs to their objective being that they be linguistically expressed and can be expressed again and again; or, more precisely, they have their objectivity, their existence-for-everyone, only as signification, as the meaning of speech” (Husserl, 1976: 368/357). “Literature”, then,

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