Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciada en Filosofía / Lo que buscamos en las siguientes páginas de esta investigación es lograr una indagación extensa del concepto extraído -por el filósofo francés- Henry Corbin- desde las bases del sufismo islámico llamado la Imaginación Creadora. Veremos una radical importancia en este concepto puesto que adquiere la función de advertir los límites de una cierta deriva nihilista en la razón filosófica occidental.

Is Henry Corbin a philosopher? According to our research, we are obliged to answer in the affirmative, as he says of himself:"Indeed, I am not nor a germanist, not even an orientalist but a philosopher pursuing his quest wherever the spirit guides him." But how can one understand and categorize a philosopher whose quest is guided by the spirit? Henry Corbin has developed what we must call a"prophetic philosophy," and by exploring his biography and youthful influences, namely Heidegger and Hamann, we can lay the foundation of its phenomenologico-hermeneutical method. This research ends with the exploration of the space (imaginal world) and of the organ of knowledge (active imagination) which make us pay attention to the prophetic philosophy of Henry Corbin: a world in which the theophany, the mystical epics, and the visions of mystics and theosophists come about.

Le Dasein ne pourra jamais « être » son « là ». Une telle remarque pourra surprendre. Toutefois, dès lors que la totalité ou la plénitude d'un « là » soient pensées, ce dernier se révèle transi de néant. Or, parler du néant implique une méthode propre, car c’est l’absence de tout « phénomène ». Devons-nous plutôt, et « déjà », constater la mort de la phénoménologie, son incapacité de « dire » ce qui est radicalement « sans » phénomène, même à entendre ce qu’elle nous aura enseigné ? C'est alors une Méthode du Néant qui se « donne » – ou plutôt « qui se sera déjà donnée », maintenant, comme dans l’Histoire – comme reste irréductible, têtu et tenace. Ce Néant implique qu’il est tant sans « temporalité » que sans « spatialité ». Il nous importe, par conséquent, de pouvoir « penser » le « non-lieu » et d’entendre à nouveaux frais ce que l’histoire nous en informe, notamment dans la pensée de Sohravardî. Le paradoxe est que cette histoire est peut-être elle-même hors histoire. / The Dasein cannot « be » its « be-ing-there ». Such a proposition may surprise us. However, where the totality of a « there » is considered, the latter reveals itself as kneaded by « nothingness ». Further, nothingness would imply its own method. Here, one is dealing with the absence of all phenomena. Should we, and « already », find in favour of the death of phonemenology, of its incapacity to « say » what is radically « without » phenonmenon, even where we are to heed what this tradition has taught us ? A Method of Nothingness, the kind which is sought here, seems to propose itself – or rather « has already proposed itself », as it is within History – as an irreducible, stubborn and tenacious one. Nothingness does imply the absence of « temporality » as well as « spatiality ». Consequently, we are driven to « think » the « no-where » and to heed afresh what history has taught us, namely the thought of Sohravardî on the matter. The paradox is this may bring us outside history itself.

Le psychanalyste Pierre Legendre propose une vision structuraliste du rapport de l'homme à l'image. Notre projet est de partir de cette réflexion fondatrice pour ensuite l'enrichir du concept de dynamisme -en se fondant sur des cultures autres qu'occidentales – qui viendra se substituer à celui de structure. Plus généralement, notre travail a pour objet de déconstruire certains stéréotypes liés à la relation entre l'homme et l'image dans le souci de restaurer une vision psychanalytique englobant la relation éthique (de 'je' à l'autre), sociale (de 'je' aux autres) et spirituelle (de 'je' au Tout Autre)qui correspond à une vision plus holistique de la cure psychanalytique mais sans la trahir. / Pierre Legendre adopts a structuralist point of view in his studies. Our project is to establish – with the help of different cultures – a position more dynamics to deconstruct three sorts of stereotypes : – First, the stereotype as an obstacle between me and the others (social dimension) ; – the stereotype as a hitch between me and the Other (spiritual dimension) ; – and, finally, stereotype as an obstacle between me and me. As we can see, this question is deeply ethical and concerns the roots of the psychoanalysis.

Ce mémoire porte sur la réception de Heidegger par Corbin et comprend trois parties : l’appropriation spirituelle que fait Corbin de l’analyse heideggérienne de la phénoménologie herméneutique élaborée dans l’introduction et la première partie de Être et Temps ; son appropriation spirituelle de l’analyse heideggérienne de la temporalité et de l’historialité du Dasein traitée dans la deuxième partie de Être et Temps ; enfin, nous nous pencherons sur le problème de l’imagination qui amène Corbin à prendre un chemin différent que celui de Heidegger dans Kant et le problème de la métaphysique et qui mène Corbin à la dimension où un monde spirituel s’ouvre et qu’il comprend à partir de la pensée des grands mystiques irano-islamiques. La réception de Heidegger par Corbin concerne ainsi davantage la manière dont Heidegger élabore la phénoménologie herméneutique et la temporalité et l’historialité du Dasein que l’ensemble du projet heideggérien et sa propre vision du monde, avec laquelle Corbin prend ses distances. La question reste alors de savoir si l’appropriation par Corbin de la pensée irano-islamique est vraiment compatible avec l’analyse heideggérienne. / Among several sources of Henry Corbin's thought, this master thesis concentrates upon his reception of Heidegger and contains three parts: 1/ Corbin’s spiritual appropriation of heideggerian analysis of hermeneutical phenomenology, elaborated in the introduction and the first part of Being and Time ; 2/ his spiritual appropriation of Heidegger’s analysis of the temporality and historicality of Dasein which is dealt with in the second part of Being and Time ; 3/ finally, we will focus on the question of Imagination which leads Corbin to take a different route than Heidegger’s and that brings him to a level where a spiritual world opens up. The reception of Heidegger by Corbin thus concerns more the way Heidegger elaborates his analyse of hermeneutical phenomenology, temporality, and historicality than on the totality of the heideggerian project. The question therefore remains if Corbin’s appropriation of the heideggerian analysis is compatible with his reading of irano-islamic thought.

This thesis examines William Blake’s conceptions of time and space in the light of the philosophies of Hinduism and Islam. In order to perform this analysis, source material, often from rare and neglected texts, is utilized to examine Blake’s possible unorthodox influences. The analysis of influences takes a three-pronged track: literary, symbolic, and linguistic; Blake’s possible knowledge of Orientalist translations; the symbols in his poetry, prose, and paintings are analyzed; and his potential knowledge of major Orientalist languages is also examined. Once this has been examined in sufficient depth, an excavation of Blake’s views on time and space is then undertaken. This analysis of Blake’s philosophical perspectives utilizes a comparative phenomenological approach in order to show their similarity to the perspectives of the Hindu Vedanta and Ismaili Islam. Throughout this analysis, I aim to demonstrate both that Blake’s views on space are inherently mystical (space as limitless and unbound by the physical universe), and that his view on time, having a similarity to that of the Platonists, views Eternity as the one true reality.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 203-216). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

This thesis examines William Blake’s conceptions of time and space in the light of the philosophies of Hinduism and Islam. In order to perform this analysis, source material, often from rare and neglected texts, is utilized to examine Blake’s possible unorthodox influences. The analysis of influences takes a three-pronged track: literary, symbolic, and linguistic; Blake’s possible knowledge of Orientalist translations; the symbols in his poetry, prose, and paintings are analyzed; and his potential knowledge of major Orientalist languages is also examined. Once this has been examined in sufficient depth, an excavation of Blake’s views on time and space is then undertaken. This analysis of Blake’s philosophical perspectives utilizes a comparative phenomenological approach in order to show their similarity to the perspectives of the Hindu Vedanta and Ismaili Islam. Throughout this analysis, I aim to demonstrate both that Blake’s views on space are inherently mystical (space as limitless and unbound by the physical universe), and that his view on time, having a similarity to that of the Platonists, views Eternity as the one true reality.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Covenant Theological Seminary, 1998. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 213-218).