Algis Mickūnas
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 249467 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Algis Mickūnas |
| PRENOMES | Algis |
| SOBRENOME | Mickūnas |
| ASSINATURA | MICKŪNAS A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ohio University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1601-8331 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1972 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Silent Communication
The essay discloses dimensions of communicative awareness, which are both local and general in the sense that they are recognised in all civilisations and pervade the researches of anthropologists, archeologists and historians. These dimensions are bodily activities composed of six practical orientations: up-down, left-right and forward-backward. Our social architecture, our systems of practical implements, our spaces and times of orientations ar…
Modern Postmodernity and Discursive Power
The discussion follows the logic of Western modern metaphysics (mathematical) and ontology (atomistic materialism) in order to demonstrate how scientific discourses assumed a power to construct the environment. A discourse of any discipline is constructed on the basis of its value to be applied on the material, homogeneous environment, to yield desired technical products, including genetic, chemical, electronic, physiological, etc. Thus, each dis…
Autocracy/Democracy
This paper examines the distinction between autocracy and democracy, proposing that these political systems are best understood at the level of civilizations, where cultural traditions provide methodological access to their core principles. It traces the historical connection between autocracy and theocracy, showing how the divinization of rulers-exemplified by doctrines such as the "divine right of kings"-enabled universal claims and underpinned…
Reflection
Modern Postmodernity and Discursive Power
The essay is designed to investigate the foundations of the conjunction of modern/postmodern premises that the world is a construct of discourses and their power. Such premises require the exclusion of the world of perception, including the lived world, and the appearance of the modern subject and its specific interpretation of reality. The question is as follows: how must the modern subject access such reality when it is assumed that such realit…
The crossing of borders
Reflection
Transcendental Ground of Intrinsic Worth in Russian Literature
The essay is a phenomenological study of Russian literature as a point of critique of two lifeworlds: the traditional Russian Feudalism with its “decadent” aristocracy, and the modern Western Enlightenment with its values, specifically the “subjective” construction of val-uations of all environment and human activities. Russian writers, from Turgenev all the way to Gogol found themselves between those two worlds and sought an answer which of them…
Polycentric Creative Communication
The essay explicates the polycentric awareness as a ground of communication with anyone, anytime, to the extent that all communication is a sense making process about something. This makes accessible “Others” from other times, present in texts which open communication through linguistic and cultural media. We read Plato and argue with him about justice, or debate the issue of beginning of the universe with astronomers. These two levels, polycentr…
The Consciousness of a Partisan
The topic addresses the very “essence” of what comprises a human being. While there are many answers employing various categorical and even cultural definitions, our quest is philosophical, leading to a distinction of a “species” called “homo sapiens” into “natural slaves” and “free beings”. The distinction is based not on species similarities, but on activity. Societies, living under the premise of pure power relationships – autocratic, theocrat…
Levinas's Rhetorical Demand
Kritinė teorija ir jos kontroversijos
The essay explicates the debates within the Critical School, including the major controversy between Habermas and Gadamer. While the debates are within the "inner circle" of this school, external questions enter concerning the status of sciences, technology, life world, values, language and the possibility of reflective emancipation. Thus, the question of scientific "neutrality" becomes relevant with respect to objective rationality, resulting in…
Philosophy and Time Travel / Filosofija Ir Kelionės Laiku
The author investigates the topic of philosophy of time travel by explicating how awareness of time helps to understand such time travel, the ways we encounter others, speak with them about the world and events in our world and history. The author discusses aspects of pretemporal life of awareness and discloses philosophical time travel in order to engage in a dialogue with others. The argument of this paper makes the following points: a) empiric…
Life World and Global Civilization
The article is designed to demonstrate that the Western modern life world is constituted by the reconstruction of the natural environment in accordance with formal logical rules that are not derivable from contingent facts. Logical rules are selected as techniques in terms of their value to fulfill “needs” and hence to shape the environment into a “technical life world” that becomes globalized as “scientific” demanding that the life worlds of the…
Globalizacija ir intelektualo atsakomybė II
The question of intellectual responsibility in confrontation with globalization is the philosophical question from Socratic to modern philosophies. In brief, it is impossible to practice philosophy and not to raise this question. It is well known that Socrates stood his ground unto death with the demand that he and others have a duty to interrogate all claims to truth regardless of their origin. Intellectual honesty was for him a requirement to k…
Globalizacija ir intelektualo atsakomybė
The question of intellectual responsibility in confrontation with globalization is the philosophical question from Socratic to modern philosophies. In brief, it is impossible to practice philosophy and not to raise this question. It is well known that Socrates stood his ground unto death with the demand that he and others have a duty to interrogate all claims to truth regardless of their origin. Intellectual honesty was for him a requirement to k…
Moderniojo Vakarų mokslo ribos (II)
Education, and above all formal education, has been one of the principle components of modernization and globalization. This is to say that the notion of universal participation in human affairs is by now regarded a necessary condition for national and international relationships and understanding. Without education, as a rational condition, such relationships and understanding are hardly possible. The call for extension of democracy and the prod…
Moderniojo Vakarų mokslo ribos (I)
Education, and above all formal education, has been one of the principle components of modernization and globalization. This is to say that the notion of universal participation in human affairs is by now regarded a necessary condition for national and international relationships and understanding. Without education, as a rational condition, such relationships and understanding are hardly possible. The call for extension of democracy and the prod…
Diskursyvioji galia
The phenomenon of power is implicit in numerous critiques of modern sciences and their methods, resulting in the crisis of rationality. Our analyses will follow two intentionalities, the vertical and the horizontal, showing that the modern scientific rationality assumes principles which exclude the vertical. By 'intentionality' we mean a way of experiencing the world at the exclusion of other ways. Thus, intentionality is not a private affair but…
Niklaso Luhmanno teorijos kontekstas
More recent continental thought is developing a social theory based on phenomenological concepts of human action and experience. At the base of this theory there is the reevaluation of the concept of time and the function of science and theoretical thought. It attempts to escape the assumption that theories and theoreticians have an extra-temporal and extra-social vantage point unaffected by social change, conditions, historical period , modes of…
Šiuolaikinis klajoklis ir kolonizmas
The aim of the article is to discuss the distinction between the East and the West or Orient and Occident and the importance of geographical demarcations for the civilizational analysis. The author notes the cultural grounds of the distinction and questions its uses to understand and the democratic modes of life on the hand and despotic on the other. The author develops the analysis of the liberalizing and constraining aspects of modes of life by…
Transcendentalinės sąmonės pro-simboliai
The article analyzes the problem of defining the concept of consiousness in the modern sciences. The author notes that consiousness does exist in the form of reality, image, metaphycical pressuposition or human condition. Rather consiousness shows itseld as an expression of a specific phenomena beyond and before itself. The author develops a phenomenological analysis of the process of formation of consiousness in the context of symbolic formation…
Encyclopedia of Phenomenology
Understanding Phenomenology
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Understanding Phenomenology. By Michael Hammond, Jane Howarth and Russell Keat. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991. Pp. viii + 312. £35.00 h/b, £12.95 p/b.)Exploring Phenomenology. By David Stewart and Algis Mickunas. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1990. Pp. ix + 173. £28.45 h/b, £12.95 p/b.) Paul Gorner Paul Gorner University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
The Underside of High-Tech
Toward a Rapprochement
The Underside of High-Tech
The Underside of High-Tech
Understanding Phenomenology
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Understanding Phenomenology. By Michael Hammond, Jane Howarth and Russell Keat. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991. Pp. viii + 312. £35.00 h/b, £12.95 p/b.)Exploring Phenomenology. By David Stewart and Algis Mickunas. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1990. Pp. ix + 173. £28.45 h/b, £12.95 p/b.) Paul Gorner Paul Gorner University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Encyclopedia of Phenomenology
Transcendentalinės sąmonės pro-simboliai
The article analyzes the problem of defining the concept of consiousness in the modern sciences. The author notes that consiousness does exist in the form of reality, image, metaphycical pressuposition or human condition. Rather consiousness shows itseld as an expression of a specific phenomena beyond and before itself. The author develops a phenomenological analysis of the process of formation of consiousness in the context of symbolic formation…
Šiuolaikinis klajoklis ir kolonizmas
The aim of the article is to discuss the distinction between the East and the West or Orient and Occident and the importance of geographical demarcations for the civilizational analysis. The author notes the cultural grounds of the distinction and questions its uses to understand and the democratic modes of life on the hand and despotic on the other. The author develops the analysis of the liberalizing and constraining aspects of modes of life by…
Niklaso Luhmanno teorijos kontekstas
More recent continental thought is developing a social theory based on phenomenological concepts of human action and experience. At the base of this theory there is the reevaluation of the concept of time and the function of science and theoretical thought. It attempts to escape the assumption that theories and theoreticians have an extra-temporal and extra-social vantage point unaffected by social change, conditions, historical period , modes of…
Diskursyvioji galia
The phenomenon of power is implicit in numerous critiques of modern sciences and their methods, resulting in the crisis of rationality. Our analyses will follow two intentionalities, the vertical and the horizontal, showing that the modern scientific rationality assumes principles which exclude the vertical. By 'intentionality' we mean a way of experiencing the world at the exclusion of other ways. Thus, intentionality is not a private affair but…
Moderniojo Vakarų mokslo ribos (I)
Education, and above all formal education, has been one of the principle components of modernization and globalization. This is to say that the notion of universal participation in human affairs is by now regarded a necessary condition for national and international relationships and understanding. Without education, as a rational condition, such relationships and understanding are hardly possible. The call for extension of democracy and the prod…
Moderniojo Vakarų mokslo ribos (II)
Education, and above all formal education, has been one of the principle components of modernization and globalization. This is to say that the notion of universal participation in human affairs is by now regarded a necessary condition for national and international relationships and understanding. Without education, as a rational condition, such relationships and understanding are hardly possible. The call for extension of democracy and the prod…
Globalizacija ir intelektualo atsakomybė II
The question of intellectual responsibility in confrontation with globalization is the philosophical question from Socratic to modern philosophies. In brief, it is impossible to practice philosophy and not to raise this question. It is well known that Socrates stood his ground unto death with the demand that he and others have a duty to interrogate all claims to truth regardless of their origin. Intellectual honesty was for him a requirement to k…
Globalizacija ir intelektualo atsakomybė
The question of intellectual responsibility in confrontation with globalization is the philosophical question from Socratic to modern philosophies. In brief, it is impossible to practice philosophy and not to raise this question. It is well known that Socrates stood his ground unto death with the demand that he and others have a duty to interrogate all claims to truth regardless of their origin. Intellectual honesty was for him a requirement to k…
Life World and Global Civilization
The article is designed to demonstrate that the Western modern life world is constituted by the reconstruction of the natural environment in accordance with formal logical rules that are not derivable from contingent facts. Logical rules are selected as techniques in terms of their value to fulfill “needs” and hence to shape the environment into a “technical life world” that becomes globalized as “scientific” demanding that the life worlds of the…
Philosophy and Time Travel / Filosofija Ir Kelionės Laiku
The author investigates the topic of philosophy of time travel by explicating how awareness of time helps to understand such time travel, the ways we encounter others, speak with them about the world and events in our world and history. The author discusses aspects of pretemporal life of awareness and discloses philosophical time travel in order to engage in a dialogue with others. The argument of this paper makes the following points: a) empiric…
Kritinė teorija ir jos kontroversijos
The essay explicates the debates within the Critical School, including the major controversy between Habermas and Gadamer. While the debates are within the "inner circle" of this school, external questions enter concerning the status of sciences, technology, life world, values, language and the possibility of reflective emancipation. Thus, the question of scientific "neutrality" becomes relevant with respect to objective rationality, resulting in…
The Consciousness of a Partisan
The topic addresses the very “essence” of what comprises a human being. While there are many answers employing various categorical and even cultural definitions, our quest is philosophical, leading to a distinction of a “species” called “homo sapiens” into “natural slaves” and “free beings”. The distinction is based not on species similarities, but on activity. Societies, living under the premise of pure power relationships – autocratic, theocrat…
Levinas's Rhetorical Demand
Polycentric Creative Communication
The essay explicates the polycentric awareness as a ground of communication with anyone, anytime, to the extent that all communication is a sense making process about something. This makes accessible “Others” from other times, present in texts which open communication through linguistic and cultural media. We read Plato and argue with him about justice, or debate the issue of beginning of the universe with astronomers. These two levels, polycentr…
Transcendental Ground of Intrinsic Worth in Russian Literature
The essay is a phenomenological study of Russian literature as a point of critique of two lifeworlds: the traditional Russian Feudalism with its “decadent” aristocracy, and the modern Western Enlightenment with its values, specifically the “subjective” construction of val-uations of all environment and human activities. Russian writers, from Turgenev all the way to Gogol found themselves between those two worlds and sought an answer which of them…
Reflection
Modern Postmodernity and Discursive Power
The essay is designed to investigate the foundations of the conjunction of modern/postmodern premises that the world is a construct of discourses and their power. Such premises require the exclusion of the world of perception, including the lived world, and the appearance of the modern subject and its specific interpretation of reality. The question is as follows: how must the modern subject access such reality when it is assumed that such realit…
The crossing of borders
Reflection
Modern Postmodernity and Discursive Power
The discussion follows the logic of Western modern metaphysics (mathematical) and ontology (atomistic materialism) in order to demonstrate how scientific discourses assumed a power to construct the environment. A discourse of any discipline is constructed on the basis of its value to be applied on the material, homogeneous environment, to yield desired technical products, including genetic, chemical, electronic, physiological, etc. Thus, each dis…
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