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The Concept of Passivity in Husserl's Phenomenology

By Edmund , Husserl , Edmund; Biceaga , Victor; Husserl

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2010
ISBN
978-90-481-3915-6, 9048139155, 9048139147, 978-90-481-3914-9
DOI
10.1007/978-90-481-3915-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1369164 bytes)
Series
Contributions to phenomenology 60
Pages
135\157
Time added
2016-01-18 05:00:00
Phenomenology; Aesthetics; Metaphysics

Description

Building upon Husserl’s challenge to oppositions such as those between form and content and between constituting and constituted, The Concept of Passivity in Husserl’s Phenomenology construes activity and passivity not as reciprocally exclusive terms but as mutually dependent moments of acts of consciousness. The book outlines the contribution of passivity to the constitution of phenomena as diverse as temporal syntheses, perceptual associations, memory fulfillment and cross-cultural communication. The detailed study of the phenomena of affection, forgetting, habitus and translation sets out a distinction between three meanings of passivity: receptivity, sedimentation or inactuality and alienation. Husserl’s texts are interpreted as defending the idea that cultural crises are not brought to a close by replacing passivity with activity but by having more of both.

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