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I wanted to make an emblem of phenomenology for the flyers I was sending out. Something simple and clear, something graphic, like the Renaissance “Festina lente,” make haste slowly.1 But what could symbolize that for us sein, ist in der Welt sein — the acceptance of matter, things, others, as most real and even edifying?
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For “Festina lente” see James Hall, A History of Ideas and Images in Italian Art, New York: Harper & Row, 1983, p. 274.
Athena and Alcyoneus, from the east side of the Great Frieze of the Altar of Zeus at Pergamum, c. 180. B.C. Marble, height 2.3 m. Berlin, Pergamonmuseum, Staatliche Museen. See Richard Tansey and Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages, Fort Worth, Philadelphia: Harcourt Brace, 1995, p. 175.
The small panel, 16 x 10.5 cm is generally attributed to Antonio Pollaiuolo (1426–1498), its in the Uffizi in Florence. See Leopold D. Ettlinger, Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo, London: Phaidon, 1978, cat. no. 10, plate 92.
This small ivory panel was made in either Trier or Echternach, and has been variously dated to the tenth or eleventh century. See Tansey and Kleiner, op. cit.,p. 374.
This Thai Buddha was made in the 14th century in the Sukhothai high style. Bronze, 94.9 cm high, in the Collection of H.R.H. Prince Chalermbol Yugala, Bangkok. See Sherman Lee, History of Far Eastern Art, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1994, p. 144.
As reproduced in E. Dale Saunders, Mudra, A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture, New York: Pantheon, Bollingen Series, 1960, p. 81.
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Poetica Nova, Reidel, 1982, p. 15.
Ibid., p. 16.
The actual image is taken from a source which presents such designs in a very graphic manner, suitable for black and white reproduction, A Coloring Book of Ancient Ireland,Santa Barbara: Bellerophon, 1978.
One thinks of the dualistic yang-yin symbol in which the opposites both contain their opposites. The two halves are separated by a diametrical line, that curves so that each side makes room for the other. Beautiful symbol, but it is already associated with other systems. What is more, there is no sense of “entanglement” and wilful reaching out, realizations we associate with phenomenology.
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Trutty-Coohill, P. (1998). How I Went Up to Image Phenomenology and Came Down Entangled …. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Reincarnating Mind, or the Ontopoietic Outburst in Creative Virtualities. Analecta Husserliana, vol 53. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4900-6_2
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