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Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: First Book, General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology, Collected Works, Vol. 2, trans. F. Kersten (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1982). The following sections are especially relevant: 93–95; 116–117; 121–122; 127–133.
Hua III/1, 268ff.; Ideas, pp. 279ff.
Roman Ingarden, “Aesthetic Experience and Aesthetic Object,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 21 (1961), pp. 289–313.
Henry James, Italian Hours (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1909), p. 229.
Hua III/1, 215f., 220; Ideas, pp. 226f., 231.
Hua III/1, 216, 266; Ideas, pp. 227, 276.
In the most common cases of ruin experience, where the objectivating noesis is perception or memory, the object is posited as a real, physical thing. There are exceptions, however, e.g., a ruined career or person. But in fantasy experiences of ruins (for example, in science fiction set amongst futuristic ruins), the object is given in the objectivating noesis of imagination and is posited through a doxic modality only as if it were a real, physical thing, subject to “as if” forces of ruination occurring in the fantasized world.
Hua III/1, 268f.; Ideas, p. 279.
Hua III/1, 220ff.; Ideas, pp. 231ff.
Hua III/1, 220, 298; Ideas, pp. 231, 310.
Hua III/1, 220.
Hua III/1, 220; Ideas, p. 231.
General works on Eighteenth Century aesthetic theories of the sublime and picturesque include. B. Sprague Allen, Tides in English Taste (1619–1800), 2 vols. (New York: Pageant Books, 1958); Walter John Hipple, Jr., The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Picturesque in 18th Century British Aesthetic Theory (Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1957); Christopher Hussey, The Picturesque: Studies in a Point of View Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1967; Rose Macauley, Pleasure of Ruins (New York: Walker and Company, 1967); Samuel Monk, The Sublime: A Study of Critical Theories in XVIII-Century England (New York: George Banta, 1935).
Ingarden, “Aesthetic Experience”, p. 293.
Ibid.
Ibid., pp. 293ff.
Barbara Jones, Follies and Grottoes (London: Constable, 1974).
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Patrik, L.E. The aesthetic experience of ruins. Husserl Studies 3, 31–55 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00355426
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