Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 1980

' The Nature of A rt'. This gave rise to a lively discussion about the validity or even legitimacy of defining art. Also presented at this session were papers by Chi-Gyu Kim (Korea University, Seoul) on The Concept of Ko in Eastern Poetics' and Hiroshi Kojima's (University of Tokyo, Tokyo) 'A Glimpse at the Fundamental Nature of Japanese A rt'. The second session concentrated on 'Pheno menological Inquiry into the Nature and Existence of the Work o f A rt'. It begnwith alucid survey of Roman Ingarden's concept of the work of art and the aesthetic object, presented by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka of the World Phenomenology Institute. The problem of experience was later re-examined from a different perspective in Wai-lim Yip's (University of California, San Diego, and Visiting Professor at The Chinese University) ‘A New Line, a New Mind: Language and the Original World'. The significance of a pre- predicated experience in relation to the specific problem of actual linguistic representation of such an experience was elaborated upon from a comparative perspective. Other papers delivered in the second session were Sandra Holstein's (Shue Yan College, Hong Kong) “Phenomenological Reductionism in Theodore Roethke's Poetry", and “ The Structure of the Literary Work of Art and Its Concretion in Roman Ingarden ” , jo in tly presented by Yushiro Takei and Takashi Hishizawa (Gifu Institute, Japan). In the third session on 'The Origin of the Work of A rt', it was discovered that Professor Yip's insight coincided meaningfully with that of Ynhui Park (Simmons College, Boston, and Visiting Professor at Ewha Woman's University, Seoul) on 'Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological Ontology'. ProfessorPark examined Merleau-Ponty's attempt to eliminate distinctions between consciousness and object as well asbetween the transcendental and the empirical. The session was rounded o ff with papers by Megumi Hashimoto (Nanzan University, Nagoya) on 'Virginia Woolf's Theory of Reception', Mu-sen Kao (The Chinese University, Hong Kong) on The Origin of Chinese Art in Historical Perspective', and Michael Holstein (The Chinese University, Hong Kong) on The Writer as Shaman'. The Conference came to a close with a round table discussion: 'An Investigation into Problems and Possibilities'. In short, the Ninth International Phenomeno­ logy Conference was indeed interdisciplinary and international in the truest sense o f the word. 23