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Texts on Texts and Textuality argues the case for an American phenomenology as applied to works of literary artworks.
The argument is made by a surrounding frame (the Preface and the Afterword) that encloses ten chapters. The chapters are divided into two parts: the phenomenological theory and practical criticism. In making his case, Kaelin traces the development in the American academic tradition from the American New Criticism through structuralism to the French nouvelle critique. He calls his theory phenomenological structuralism, and shows its derivation from American pragmatism (contextualism) to an unabashed phenomenology through the criticisms of Roman Ingarden, Martin Heidegger, and Paul Ricoeur. The structuralism derives from the work of Ferdinand de Saussure, as incorporated into the philosophical linguistics of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Part II contains five chapters, each concerned with either direct application of the theory in acts of criticism, or in the metacriticism of accepted critical theories, such as the Aristotelians of early dramatic critics (Chapter 6), or of applied procedures in recent academic critical circles (Chapter 10). The argument is concluded in the author's Afterword, where pedagogical issues are introduced to suggest the future applicability of the theory. A glossary of technical and new terms is added, and a double index - of names and a subject matter - is included to map out the author's own interpretation of his bibliographic references.
Price: $149.00
Pages: 230
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Value Inquiry Book Series
Publication Date:
01 January 1999
ISBN: 9789042006652
Format: Paperback
Eugene F. Kaelin holds two degrees from the University of Missouri, the B.A., awarded with distinction in 1949, and the M.A. in 1950. His next diploma, in higher studies, was awarded by the Université de Bordeaux, in 1954. The first two degrees were in philosophy; the diploma of higher studies, in social psychology. His Ph.D. in philosophy was awarded by the University of Illinois in 1954. Later, he was a postdoctoral fellow of the University of Illinois at Bordeaux (1954-55), and a traveling scholar, from the University of Wisconsin, at Freiburg-im-Breisgau (1964). He has taught at the University of Missouri as an instructor in philosophy, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was an instructor, assistant, and associate professor. In 1965, after his year in Germany, he was invited to join the faculty of the Florida State University as an associate professor. He was promoted to professor in 1967, and served as chairman of the department from 1969 until 1972. Besides numerous articles and reviews in a number of journals, Professor Kaelin has published the following books: An Existentialist Aesthetic: The Theories of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty (1962), Art and Existence (1970), The Unhappy Consciousness: The Poetic Plight of Samuel Beckett (1981), Heidegger’s Being and Time: A Reading for Readers (1988), and An Aesthetics for Art Educators (1989). He has served as a member of the translating team for G.H. Mead’s Mind, Self, and Society, which was published in 1962 as L’Esprit, le soi et la société. Later he was editor of a Festschrift for W. H. Werkmeister, published as Man and Value: Essays in Honor of William H. Werkmeister (1981). Still later, he was co-editor, with Calvin O. Schrag, of a special volume of the Analecta Husserliana dedicated to the development of phenomenology in America; its title: American Phenomenology: Origins and Developments (1989). His swan song appears in this volume.