PrefaceâIX
Introductionâ1
Ingardenâs Relevance Todayâ4
1
Introduction to the Concept of Identityâ17
Some Traditional Approachesâ17
Ingardenâs General Ontologyâ25
2
Nature and Identity of a Literary Work in American Aestheticsâ31
Nelson Goodmanâs Syntactical Identityâ33
Richard Wolheimâs Amendmentâ35
Psychologismâ37
Semantic Accountsâ40
Joseph Margolisâs Culturally Emergent Objectsâ46
3
Phenomenological Concept of Identityâ51
Identity of a Perceptual Objectâ52
The Concept of Intentionalityâ55
The Concept of Constitutionâ56
Ideality and Identity of the Objectivities of Understandingâ60
Husserlâs Theory of Meaningâ61
Ingardenâs Objections to Husserlâs Transcendental Idealismâ65
Hermeneutic Challenges against the Possibility of Transcendental Phenomenologyâ71
4
Literary Work as a Schematic Structureâ77
The Notion of a âPurely Intentional Objectââ77
Schematismâ81
Structure of a Literary Work of Artâ88
The Stratum of Linguistic Sound Formationsâ88
The Stratum of Meaningsâ91
Meanings of Sentencesâ94
The Stratum of Presented Objectsâ97
The Stratum of Schematized Aspectsâ99
The Order of Sequence of Partsâ104
Quasi-judgmentsâ106
5
Aesthetic Experience and Life of a Literary Work of Artâ111
Aesthetic Experienceâ111
Problems Pertaining to Aesthetic Experienceâ116
Pre-aesthetic Cognition of a Literary Work of Artâ116
Cognition of an Aesthetic Objectâ120
The Work and Its Concretizationsâ121
âLifeâ of a Literary Work of Artâ126
6
Values of Literary Work of Artâ131
Artistic and Aesthetic Valuesâ133
The Stratum of Sounds and Its Function in the Constitution of Aesthetic Qualitiesâ136
The Stratum of Meanings and Its Function in the Constitution of Aesthetic Qualitiesâ138
De Gustibus Non Est Disputandumâ139
Metaphysical Qualitiesâ142
Poetry as a Means of Cognitionâ145
7
The Identity of a Literary Work of Artâ152
Identity of Soundsâ153
Identity of Meaningsâ156
Dialectics of Identityâ162
Subjectivism, Relativism and Identityâ166
Epilogueâ170
Bibliographyâ175
Indexâ179