Papers by Jonna Bornemark
Citizen dialogues (medborgardialoger) are in Sweden normally organized by officials (or consultan... more Citizen dialogues (medborgardialoger) are in Sweden normally organized by officials (or consultants) working in the municipal administration. Such dialogues are in Sweden developed by the authoriti ...
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine
This article takes its point of departure in Bracha Ettinger’s discussion on the “matrixial borde... more This article takes its point of departure in Bracha Ettinger’s discussion on the “matrixial borderspace”: the structure of the experience of “the womb,” both from a “mother-pole” and a “fetus-pole”. Ettinger describes this borderspace as a place of differentiation-in-co-emergence, separation-in-jointness, and distance-in-proximity. The question this article poses is what kind of logic this experience is an expression of, as there seems to be a discrepancy in relation to the classical Aristotelian logic of identity. As an alternative to classical Aristotelian logic, Nicholas of Cusa’s logic of the non-aliud is explored as a paradigm more in line with Ettinger’s description of pregnancy specifically and more generally, to an understanding of life as a co-poietic emergence of structures of pactivity and permeability.
Encyclopedia of the Bible Online, 2013
, which contains an excellent summary of traditional phenomenological approaches to the problem o... more , which contains an excellent summary of traditional phenomenological approaches to the problem of the holy, as well as a defense for a new phenomenological approach. A somewhat earlier attempt to reassess the emergence of the phenomenon of the holy in late modernity was Das Heilige. Seine Spur in der Moderne (Bodenheim: Athenäum, 1987), edited by Dietmar Kamper and Christoph Wulf. But Spindler shows how Spinoza's analysis is more sophisticated. As opposed to Hobbes, Spinoza claims that it is impossible for the state to rule over opinions and convictions and that any legislation countering the desires of the multitude with too much violence will be overthrown and thus invalidated. Karolina Enqvist, in her commentary, embraces Spindler's attempts to read Spinoza as a political thinker. She continues this line of thought through a reading of two Spanish philosophers, María Zambrano and Vidal Peña García, and their works on Spinoza. Enqvist emphasizes the impossibility of perfect knowledge in Spinoza, which opens up for an irrational thinking as the way to best "preserve in being," and that this is where questions of religion, thinking, and materialism coincide. In this way Enqvist wants to radicalize Spinoza's position, as one where his whole project becomes religion.
... Studies in Practical Knowledge. Publication type: Chapter in book (Other academic). Language:... more ... Studies in Practical Knowledge. Publication type: Chapter in book (Other academic). Language: English. In: Phenomenology and Religion: New Frontiers. Editor: JonnaBornemark, Hans Ruin. Place of publ.: Huddinge Publisher ...
SATS, 2006
Abstract In this paper I will discuss the concept “limit-situation” as it is developed in Karl Ja... more Abstract In this paper I will discuss the concept “limit-situation” as it is developed in Karl Jaspers' early writings, especially his Psychologie der Weltanschauungen and Philosophie, and explore how this concept could be understood in a broader way. After a discussion of the concepts of “limit” and “situation” I will discuss Jaspers' heritage from Kant and Kierkegaard, in whose works the concepts of antinomy and paradox are central. Antinomy is worked out in Jaspers' thinking as single limit-situations in which the human being understands her finitude and openness. It is through these single limit-situations that her world-view is shaped. Through a discussion of Jaspers' communication theory and his understanding of the mystics, I will extend the concept of limit-situation from the single limit-situations. I will argue that the limit-situation should be understood, not only as a concept marking the limits of the human situation, but as a way of exploring the human situation as limit.
The idea of a limit of reason, a measure that defines reason and that it must not overstep, has b... more The idea of a limit of reason, a measure that defines reason and that it must not overstep, has been a constitutive part of philosophy since its beginnings in Greek thought. Placing itself in oppos ...
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Papers by Jonna Bornemark
Eds. Jonna Bornemark and Nicholas Smith
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Jonna Bornemark, Nicholas Smith, Introduction
Nicholas Smith, Phenomenology of Pregnancy: A Cure for Philosophy?
Stella Sandford, Feminist Phenomenology, Pregnancy and Transcendental Subjectivity
Alice Pugliese, Phenomenology of Drives: Between Biological and Personal Life
Sarah LaChance Adams, Erotic Intersubjectivity: Sex, Death, and Maternity in Bataille
April Flakne, Nausea as Interoceptive Annunciation
Mao Naka, The Otherness of Reproduction: Passivity and Control
Erik Jansson Boström, The Unborn Child and the Father: Acknowledgement and the Creation of the Other
Joan Raphael-Leff, “Two-in-One-Body”: Unconscious Representations and Ethical, Dimensions of Inter-Corporeality in Childbearing
Grainney Lucey, The Difference of Experience between Maternity and Maternal in the Work of Julia Kristeva
Erik Bryngelsson, The Problem of Unity in Psychoanalysis: Birth Trauma and Separation
Jonna Bornemark, Life beyond Individuality: A-subjective Experience in Pregnancy