a a phenomenological reading of the library From the mystical to the didactic:

Abstract

This article presents some considerations framed in a discussion about the essential and eidetic nature of the library as a space, as time or as an executable action. From there on, the reflections that the facets of the bookish environment of the academy, of the community and of the great nations, as well as of the small towns, prompt an exhaustive analysis by means of the phenomenological method, which makes use of the studies developed by Ingarden and his multiple commentators. Thus, I would be mistaken if I sought to speak of the book and the library as an object or idea without establishing a brief dialogue with Jorge Luis Borges, who through specific sections of his work considers these premises in a narrative manner; metaphysical, as corresponds to the process of intentionalization of the phenomenological object, and atemporal, as the same proceeding of the matter requires. However, this writing does not only evoke Borges authority
nor Ingarden’s own authority to say what he says; it simply anticipates itself, tries to come before his next move and has as its main purpose to unmask that romantic idea or not, that politicized idea or not, institutionalized or not, of what the phenomenon of the library can be, of what it has represented in ancient history and in the most recent modernity.