Roman Ingarden Quotes
Roman Ingarden was a Polish philosopher and a student of Edmund Husserl, the most distinguished representative of phenomenology in twentieth-century Polish philosophy. He broke with Husserl over the latter's transcendental idealism, defending a realist phenomenology in his monumental Controversy over the Existence of the World. The quotes below are attributed to Roman Ingarden, organized by topic.
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Roman Ingarden on Mind
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Attributed to Roman Ingarden:
“Every work of art has a structure of distinct strata that interact in the experience of the reader.”
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Attributed to Roman Ingarden:
“The reader concretizes the work in the act of reading.”
Roman Ingarden on Truth
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“The literary work of art is a stratified, intentional formation.”
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“What is real is what is independent of any consciousness; what is intentional depends on it.”
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“Aesthetic value is not added to the work; it is already there to be discovered.”