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<abstract><title style='display:none'>Summary</title> Modern empirical research considers happiness to be identical with a subjective feeling of pleasure. This refers to both assessments of actual satisfactions of need and representations of possible satisfactions of need. Thereby, the aspects of cognitive representations of happiness are mainly focused, while the performing subject remains disregarded. The phenomenological approach tries to counteract such a situation. Phenomenology allows us to differentiate ‘striving towards happiness’ and the ‘experienced happiness’ as different polarities of this phenomenon. Based on this three aspects can be distinguished: (1) the present experience of happiness as an experience of satisfying actual urgent needs; (2) the temporally enduring form of (self-)satisfaction in the individual life; (3) the ethical form of happiness as felicity (Glückseligkeit) implying the teleological determination of human existence realized through socialization. In this paper, these aspects are considered phenomenological through intentional genetic analysis and taking into account some psychoanalytic results. This article aims at showing that happiness, particularly in the ethical form of felicity, cannot be considered as merely an individual issue, but is rather closely related to the sociality of human experience and to the intersubjective constitution of our shared reality.</abstract>

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<article-title>In Sachen Glück. Ein genetisch-phänomenologischer Ansatz / Concerning Happiness. Reflexions from the Genetic Phenomenological Point of View</article-title>

In Sachen Glück. Ein genetisch-phänomenologischer Ansatz / Concerning Happiness. Reflexions from the Genetic Phenomenological Point of View

<abstract><title style='display:none'>Summary</title> In my paper, I analyze hate as one of the important factors that influence and structuralize the symbolic sphere. In the first step, I define the notion of “symbolic sphere”. Then, I analyze hate from the phenomenological and psychoanalytical points of view. My next step is a historical digression, concerning the place of hate in the social order. Next, I describe some important phenomena of the contemporary societies conditioned by the influence of hatred. Finally, I investigate which notions of the social theory are adequate to describe this kind of phenomena. Hate has been most frequently apprehended as a sudden eruption of bare violence. It was supposed to transform the symbolic sphere through sharp, directly aggressive, and often unexpected actions. Nevertheless, in societies wherein the symbolic legitimization of the political and social order was established as the consequence of the Second World War, a deep change in the attitude toward the bare and direct expression of violence took place. Acts of hate in the public sphere became morally delegitimized and symbolically repressed. We should ask then: if the bare violence and the hate determining this violence disappeared from the sphere of social praxis, although they still shape the social imaginary, how are they really founded? Thus, to answer these questions, I will have to ask not about the direct impact of hatred, but about its hidden influence.</abstract>

<article-title>Is Hatred a Major Factor Determining the Contemporary Social Imaginary? / Ist der Hass ein bestimmender Faktor des gegenwärtigen sozialen Imaginären?</article-title>

Is Hatred a Major Factor Determining the Contemporary Social Imaginary? / Ist der Hass ein bestimmender Faktor des gegenwärtigen sozialen Imaginären?

<abstract><title style='display:none'>Summary</title> I start with an immanent critique of Husserls 5th Cartesian Meditation that reveals the weakness of the constitutional Analysis in this text, especially in the view of genetic phenomenology. First I argue for a methodically differentiation in concern to different privileged parts of our lived body. Hands and feet seems to be much more suitable for analogical apperception than facial expressions, because we do not know so much about our own mimics. My special interest is a specific genetic phenomenological analysis of our access to the other that is oriented on the function of the type. The type somehow carries all our experiences with others in it and I will argue that the layers of this history are also functioning in every apperception of an other.</abstract>

Special Issue: The Social Nature of the Human Person Phenomenological and Anthropological Perspectives / Der Mensch als Soziales Wesen Phänomenologische und Anthropologische Perspektiven, Guest Editors: Jagna Brudziñska, Dieter Lohmar

I. Fremderfahrung

<article-title>Eine genetische Analyse des Zugangs zum Anderen / A Genetic Analysis of the Access to the Other</article-title>

Eine genetische Analyse des Zugangs zum Anderen / A Genetic Analysis of the Access to the Other

<article-title>Einleitung der Herausgeber: Der Mensch als soziales Wesen. Phänomenologische und Anthropologische Perspektiven.
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Einleitung der Herausgeber: Der  Mensch als  soziales Wesen. Phänomenologische und Anthropologische Perspektiven.


<abstract><title style='display:none'>Summary</title> This essay develops an approach to a phenomenology of shame by taking recourse to different notions of shame found in various humanistic disciplines and in the history of phenomenology. The first part of this paper analyzes some of the central ideas on the nature of shame to be found in cultural anthropology, pedagogy, history and psychoanalysis. The second part discusses the phenomenological theories of shame proposed by Sartre and Levinas. Since their approaches are opposite to each other in crucial respects, the third part of this paper returns to the analyses of shame undertaken in the first part in order to resolve this apparent conflict and advance a coherent theory of shame. The essay’s final thesis is that shame is neither fundamentally destructive nor fundamentally constructive but that it can assume both guises. While it can threaten the subject up to the point of destruction triggering it in aggressive defensive mechanisms, it can also contribute to the development of the subject into a fully free individual capable of acknowledging and answering to others.</abstract>

<article-title>Scham. Phänomenologische Überlegungen zu einem sozialtheoretischen Begriff / Shame. Phenomenological Reflections on a Socio-Theoretical Concept</article-title>

Scham. Phänomenologische Überlegungen zu einem sozialtheoretischen Begriff / Shame. Phenomenological Reflections on a Socio-Theoretical Concept

<abstract><title style='display:none'>Summary</title> The aim of this article is to develop a phenomenological analysis of pretense. In different forms of pretense, something we take to be fictive is somehow transposed into a context that we experience as real. Due to this ‘transposition’, the context itself, under certain respects, becomes unreal or fictional. When we ‘live’ in a pretense context, we bracket or conceal what we take for real. Departing from both meta-representational and simulationist approaches, the phenomenological interpretation of pretense is developed based, on the one hand, on the analysis of the role of perceptual and, on the other hand, on the inquiry into the central moments making up the sociality of pretense. In relation to the intersubjective/social nature of pretense and to reassessment of the relation between ‘being’ and ‘appearing’, which result from the analysis of the role of perceptual, different forms of perspectival flexibility that are actualized in pretense will be discussed.</abstract>

<article-title>Phantasie, Interaktion und Perspektivenübernahme in Als-ob-Situationen. Eine phänomenologische Analyse / Fantasy, Interaction and Perspective-Taking in Pretense Situations. A Phenomenological Analysis</article-title>

Phantasie, Interaktion und Perspektivenübernahme in Als-ob-Situationen. Eine phänomenologische Analyse / Fantasy, Interaction and Perspective-Taking in Pretense Situations. A Phenomenological Analysis

<abstract><title style='display:none'>Summary</title> A phenomenological approach to anthropology should not propose a static definition of man, but inquire into specific human motivations, which never occur isolated. Therefore, the autonomy-dependency connection is presented as a possible human motivational ground. The notion of autonomy, presented with reference to the Kantian idea of the self-determining reason and to the Husserlian account of self-constitution, reveals in itself elements of dependency. On the other side, the notion of vulnerability and reliance is displayed through different approaches of Gehlen, MacIntyre and Toombs in order to illustrate dependency not as a mere capitulation of the subject, but as one of its intrinsic possibilities, which does not exclude autonomous will.</abstract>

<article-title>Der Spannungsbogen von Autonomie und Verletzlichkeit. Eine phänomenologisch-anthropologische Reflexion / The Unsolved Tension between Autonomy and Vulnerability</article-title>

Der Spannungsbogen von Autonomie und Verletzlichkeit. Eine phänomenologisch-anthropologische Reflexion / The Unsolved Tension between Autonomy and Vulnerability

<abstract><title style='display:none'>Summary</title> In this article, I point out the hermeneutical implications of the Philosophy of Jósef Tischner, a modern Polish philosopher. In his early writings, the author of the Ethics of Solidarity strongly criticized the claim of the historicity of understanding as developed in Heidegger’s Being and Time and Gadamer’s Truth and Method. Later, however, he dismissed his critical attitude and recognized in both, Heidegger’s and Gadamer’s concepts, an important source of inspiration for a new formulation of the question of the other. At the same time, he tried to stay true to the tradition of the Philosophy of Dialogue (M. Buber, F. Rosenzweig, E. Levinas) as well as to the transcendental method of asking for the last “conditions of possibility” elaborated by Husserl. Thus, in his late work, he took into account some aspects of the hermeneutic concepts of the historicity of understanding and at once fundamentally transformed their meaning. In the last part of my article, I compare his concept of the hierarchy of ideas and values, which determines human relationships, with Gadamer’s notion of prejudices and tradition.</abstract>

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<article-title>Hermeneutische Implikationen im sozialphilosophischen Denken von Jósef Tischner / Hermeneutical Implications in Jósef Tischner’s Social Philosophy</article-title>

Hermeneutische Implikationen im sozialphilosophischen Denken von Jósef Tischner / Hermeneutical Implications in Jósef Tischner’s Social Philosophy

<abstract><title style='display:none'>Summary</title> This article examines the foundations of social experience from a psychoanalytic perspective. In current developmental psychology, social cognition debate, and phenomenology of empathy, it is widely assumed that the self and the other are differentiated from the outset, and the basic challenge is accordingly taken to consist in explaining how the gap between the self and the other can be bridged. By contrast, in the psychoanalytic tradition, the central task is considered to lie in explaining how such a gap is established in the first place. My article develops this latter idea. I focus on the infant’s early experience of care, show how the presence of the caregiver can be interpreted in terms of an interoceptive experience, illustrate the gradual self/other differentiation from this perspective, and thus argue that the other is granted ‘otherness’ gradually. By emphasising this graduality, I challenge the assumption that self/other differentiation dominates the infant’s life from the outset. In this manner, I show how the psychoanalytic theory may be used in contesting one of the cornerstones of the current research paradigm.</abstract>

<article-title>The Pain of Granting Otherness: Interoception and the Differentiation of the Other / Der Schmerz der Gewährung von Andersheit: Interozeption und die Differenzierung des Objekts</article-title>

The Pain of Granting Otherness: Interoception and the Differentiation of the Other / Der Schmerz der Gewährung von Andersheit: Interozeption und die Differenzierung des Objekts

<abstract><title style='display:none'>Summary</title> This paper develops a phenomenological approach to the concept of pain, which highlights the main presuppositions that underlie pain research undertaken both in the natural and in the sociohistorical sciences. My argument is composed of four steps: (1) only if pain is a stratified experience can it become a legitimate theme in both natural and sociohistorical sciences; (2) the phenomenological method is supremely well suited to disclose the different strata of pain experience; (3) the phenomenological account offered here identifies three fundamental levels that make up the texture of pain experience: pain can be conceived as a prereflective experience, as an object of affective reflection, or as an object of cognitive reflection; and (4) such a stratified account clarifies how pain can be a subject matter in the natural and sociohistorical sciences. Arguably, the natural and sociohistorical sciences address pain at different levels of its manifestation. While the natural sciences address pain as an object of cognitive reflection, sociohistorical sciences first and foremost deal with pain as a prereflective experience and as an object of affective reflection. </abstract>

<article-title>On Pain, Its stratification, and Its Alleged Indefinability / Über den Schmerz, seine Schichtung und seine vermeintliche Undefinierbarkeit</article-title>

On Pain, Its stratification, and Its Alleged Indefinability / Über den Schmerz, seine Schichtung und seine vermeintliche Undefinierbarkeit

<article-title>Title: Call for papers – Gestalt psycology and philosophy / Gestaltpsychologie und Philosophie Wolfgang Metzger Award 2019 / Wolfgang-Metzger-Preis 2019 Young Academics Achievement Award / Nachwuchs – Förderpreis</article-title>

Title: Call for papers – Gestalt psycology and philosophy / Gestaltpsychologie und Philosophie  Wolfgang Metzger Award 2019 / Wolfgang-Metzger-Preis 2019 Young  Academics Achievement Award / Nachwuchs – Förderpreis

<abstract><title style='display:none'>Summary</title> This paper combines perspectives from different disciplines to open up an interdisciplinary view on basic processes of human interaction. Part I addresses problematic assumptions of dominating theories of mind and limits of phenomenological description. Part II presents findings from social psychological and neuroscientific experiments on sensomotor synchronization. These experiments were carried out at levels of experiencing, behavior/kinematics, organic functions, and neurophysiology. Novel approaches that study intercerebral processes in musicians who interact face-to-face are particularly relevant: parts of non-identical brains function like temporarily coupled units. Part III discusses methodological issues and presuppositions of these experimental approaches as well as of current theories of mind. The findings from social psychology and neuroscience can serve to explicate phenomenological concepts and to complement descriptions, in particular of prereflective intentionality. Vice versa, the phenomenological view helps to critically examine limits and assumptions of empirical approaches and philosophical theories of mind. The presented findings on sensomotor and intercerebral synchronization corroborate phenomenological views of direct intercorporeal intersubjectivity, which provide an alternative to accounts that rely on simulation, representation, and inferential processes.</abstract>

<article-title>Soziale Interaktion durch Synchronisation. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven / Social Interaction through Synchronisation. Interdisciplinary Perspectives</article-title>

Soziale Interaktion durch Synchronisation. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven / Social Interaction through Synchronisation. Interdisciplinary Perspectives

<abstract><title style='display:none'>Summary</title> The human being as a constituted objectivity is a fragile ‘figure’ who lives in through their individual and shared experience. As a constituted objectivity, it influences our experiences, actions and the constitution of our community. Nevertheless, it appears to us, who actually constitute it, as a completely independent and immutable object, as a mere fact our experience has to comply with, and as a normative representation of the human being. This paper inquires - from a phenomenological point of view - about the structure that underlies the norm at work in our experience, as well as in the high- and low-level dimensions of the intersubjective community. Indirectly, such a structure can be identified through the connection between Husserl’s understanding of normality and objectivity. My claim is that normativity can be understood as a necessary function and thus can be distinguished from objectivity and normality. Normativity appears, therefore, as a function of objectivity, which allows one to distinguish the latter from normality. As such, normativity should not be confused with an active agreement or regulation, but rather identified as a necessary constitutive structure arising from experiential intersubjective sense-borrowing performance. At the same time, due to its connection to objectivity, normativity also appears to strongly influence the social production of validity, therefore being endorsed by institutions. </abstract>

<article-title>Der normierte Mensch. Eine Betrachtung hinsichtlich des Verhältnisses von Normalität und Objektivität aus dem Blickpunkt der husserlschen Phänomenologie / The Normalized Man. Reflexions on the Relationship between Normality and Objectivity from the Point of View of Husserlian Phenomenology</article-title>

Der normierte Mensch. Eine Betrachtung hinsichtlich des Verhältnisses von Normalität und Objektivität aus dem Blickpunkt der husserlschen Phänomenologie / The Normalized Man. Reflexions on the Relationship between Normality and Objectivity from the Point of View of Husserlian Phenomenology

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<abstract><title style='display:none'>Summary</title> This article refers on a recent discussion with the question of the relationship between individual memory and collective history. It is claimed a constitutive role of memory in history. This thesis is examined on the basis of the question according to the value of the autobiography as a historical source. It is shown here that a reference to the collective history is already guaranteed in the relationship between memory and narrative. Four observations shall justify the arguments, they concern (i) the role of intuition in historical narrative, (ii) the relationship between historical actor and his deeds, (iii) the transcendence of memory, and (iv) the role of fiction in the historical narrative. The last observation leads at the end on the role of fantasy in the historical memory.</abstract>

<article-title>Geschichte zwischen Erinnerung und Phantasie / History between Memory and Fantasy</article-title>

Geschichte zwischen Erinnerung und Phantasie / History between Memory and Fantasy

<abstract><title style='display:none'>Summary</title> In speaking of the social dimensions of human experience, we inevitably become involved in the debate regarding how they are to be studied. Should we embrace the first-person perspective, which is that of the phenomenologists, and begin with the experiences composing our directly experienced lifeworld? Alternately, should we follow the lead of natural scientists and take up the third-person perspective? This is the perspective that asserts that we must begin with what is true for everyone, i.e., with what is available to both me and Others (the “they” that forms the grammatical third person). Both perspectives are one sided in that each presupposes the other for its intelligibility. The third-person perspective is Cartesian and, as I show, privileges space, while the first-person perspective is social in Levinas’s sense and presupposes time. Our reality, I argue, embraces both perspectives and is, in fact, set by their intertwining.</abstract>

<article-title>Social Space and the Question of Objectivity / Der soziale Raum und die Frage nach der Objektivität</article-title>

Social Space and the Question of Objectivity / Der soziale Raum und die Frage nach der Objektivität

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<DIV align=left>Das Heft 1-2022 und das Heft 2-2022 werden gemeinsam im August 2022 erscheinen. Insbesondere handelt es sich um zwei Sonderhefte mit den Titeln entitled "Cultural–Historical Gestalt Theory and Beyond" bzw. ""Colour and Space in Perception and Art". <HR color=black> </COLOR> Gestalt Theory wurde 1979 in Deutschland als internationales multidisziplinäres wissenschaftliches Journal gegründet, um den weltweit verbreiteten, auf den grundlegenden Erkenntnissen der Berliner Schule der Gestaltpsychologie - Gestalttheorie aufbauenden Forschungsaktivitäten und deren Weiterentwicklungen eine Plattform zu schaffen. Das Journal veröffentlicht holistisch system-theoretische, phänomenologische oder experimentelle Analysen und richtet sich in einem fruchtbaren interdisziplinären Dialog an internationale Wissenschaftler aller Forschungsfelder, in denen diese Ansätze vertreten sind, wie Psychologie, Philosophie, Pädagogik, Sozial- und Humanwissenschaften, Ökonomie, Kunst, Kommunikationswissenschaften. Es enthält Originalbeiträge, Berichte, Diskussionen und Ankündigungen aus den verschiedenen Wissenschaftsbereichen und bietet aus multidisziplinärer gestalttheoretischer Perspektive einen breiten Überblick über die gegenwärtige wissenschaftliche Forschung und deren Entwicklungen. Gestalt Theory führt durchgehend „double-blind peer-reviews" durch und bezieht keine Publikations- und Artikelbearbeitungsgebühren (APCs). </DIV> <DIV align=left> Zurückweisungsrate <UL> <LI>30 % </LI></UL> Archivierung Sciendo archiviert den Inhalt dieser Zeitschrift in <A href="https://www.portico.org/">Portico</A> - digitaler Langzeitaufbewahrungsdienst für wissenschaftliche Bücher, Zeitschriften und Sammlungen. Plagiatspolitik Die Redaktion beteiligt sich an einer wachsenden Community von Benutzern des <A href="https://www.crossref.org/services/similarity-check/">Similarity Check System's</A>, um sicherzustellen, dass die veröffentlichten Inhalte original und vertrauenswürdig sind. Similarity Check ist ein Medium, das ein umfassendes Screening von Manuskripten ermöglicht, um Plagiate zu beseitigen und einen Peer-Review-Prozess mit hohem Standard und hoher Qualität bereitzustellen ÄLTERE JAHRGÄNGE: Ausgewählte Beiträge im Volltext aus den Jahren 1979-2008: <A href="http://www.gestalttheory.net/cms/index.php?page=gestalt-theory-early-archives-1979-2008">www.gestalttheory.net/cms/index.php?page=gestalt-theory-early-archives-1979-2008</A> 2009-2016 (Krammer, Vienna): <A href="http://www.gestalttheory.net/cms/archive/">www.gestalttheory.net/cms/archive/</A> Weitere Informationen: <A href="http://www.gestalttheory.net/cms/index.php?page=onlinejournal">www.gestalttheory.net/cms/index.php?page=onlinejournal</A> </DIV>

<DIV align=left>Issue 1-2022 and Issue 2-2022 will be published together, in August 2022. In particular, they will be two special issues, entitled "Cultural–Historical Gestalt Theory and Beyond" and "Colour and Space in Perception and Art", respectively. <HR color=black> </COLOR> The journal Gestalt Theory was founded in 1979 in Germany as an international multidisciplinary journal to establish a platform for the globally ramified research activities built on the fundamental scientific findings of the Berlin School of Gestalt theory and its legacy. The Journal publishes articles that present a holistic system-theoretical, phenomenological or experimental analysis and addresses international scientists of any field where these approaches are represented, such as psychology, philosophy, pedagogy, social and life sciences, economics, art, communication sciences in a fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue. It contains original contributions, reviews, discussions and announcements in these fields and provides a wide overview of the current scientific research and advances in multidisciplinary gestalt-theoretical perspective. Gestalt Theory is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal. The journal has no article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges. </DIV> <DIV align=left> Rejection Rate <UL> <LI>30% </LI></UL> Archiving Sciendo archives the contents of this journal in <A href="https://www.portico.org/">Portico</A> - digital long-term preservation service of scholarly books, journals and collections. Plagiarism Policy The editorial board is participating in a growing community of <A href="https://www.crossref.org/services/similarity-check/">Similarity Check System's</A> users in order to ensure that the content published is original and trustworthy. Similarity Check is a medium that allows for comprehensive manuscripts screening, aimed to eliminate plagiarism and provide a high standard and quality peer-review process. BACK ISSUES: Selected full text articles from the period 1979-2008: <A href="http://www.gestalttheory.net/cms/index.php?page=gestalt-theory-early-archives-1979-2008">www.gestalttheory.net/cms/index.php?page=gestalt-theory-early-archives-1979-2008</A> 2009-2016 (Krammer, Vienna): <A href="http://www.gestalttheory.net/cms/archive/">www.gestalttheory.net/cms/archive/</A> Further information: <A href="http://www.gestalttheory.net/cms/index.php?page=onlinejournal">www.gestalttheory.net/cms/index.php?page=onlinejournal</A> </DIV>

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Special Issue: The Social Nature of the Human Person. Phenomenological and Anthropological Perspectives. Der Mensch als Soziales Wesen. Phänomenologische und Anthropologische Perspektiven. Guest Editors: Jagna Brudzinska, Dieter Lohmar

Teil II. Gemeinschaftsbildung und sozialer Raum

Teil III. Erfahrungsdimensionen des Menschen als Soziales Wesen

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Special Issue: The Social Nature of the Human Person. Phenomenological and Anthropological Perspectives. Der Mensch als Soziales Wesen. Phänomenologische und Anthropologische Perspektiven. Guest Editors: Jagna Brudzinska, Dieter Lohmar

Teil II. Gemeinschaftsbildung und sozialer Raum

Teil III. Erfahrungsdimensionen des Menschen als Soziales Wesen

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