Roman Ingarden's philosophy of literature : phenomenological account / By Wojciech Chojna.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ingarden's relevance today -- Introduction to the concept of identity -- Some traditional approaches -- Ingarden's general ontology -- Nature and identity of a literary work in American aesthetics -- Nelson Goodman's syntactical identity -- Richard Wolheim's amendment -- Psychologism -- Semantic accounts -- Joseph Margolis's culturally emergent objects -- Phenomenological concept of identity -- Identity of a perceptual object -- The concept of intentionality -- The Concept of constitution -- Ideality and identity of the objectivities of understanding -- Husserl's theory of meaning -- Ingarden's objections to Husserl's transcendental idealism -- Hermeneutic challenges against the possibility of transcendental phenomenology -- Literary work as a schematic structure -- The notion of a 'purely intentional object' -- Schematism -- Structure of a literary work of art -- The stratum of linguistic sound formations -- The stratum of meanings -- Meanings of sentences -- The stratum of presented objects -- The stratum of schematized aspects.

"In Roman Ingarden's Philosophy of Literature Wojciech Chojna discusses Ingarden's theory of literary works and develops a phenomenological account of identity which accommodates differences in interpretations and value judgments without succumbing to relativism. The latter is overcome not through falling back on essentialism but from within relativism. Literature offers us diverse experiences changing our perceptions of ourselves and the worlds we live in. Absolutism proclaiming unmitigated access to the meaning of literary texts is intolerant of differences and leads to violence in life. Conversely, relativism, in the illusory spirit of radical tolerance, turns meanings and values into historically contingent, incompatible interpretations, where communication and reconciliation is impossible, thus justifying ideological conflicts and violence"-- Provided by publisher.