Husserl’s Phenomenology: From Pure Logic to Embodiment (Phaenomenologica, 238)

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This text examines the many transformations in Husserl’s phenomenology that his discoveries of the nature of appearing lead to. It offers a comprehensive look at the Logical Investigations’ delimitation of the phenomenological field, and continues with Husserl’s account of our consciousness of time. This volume examines Husserl’s turn to transcendental idealism and the problems this raises for our recognition of other subjects. It details Husserl’s account of embodiment and takes largely from his manuscripts, both published and unpublished, dealing with his theory of instincts, his considerations of mortality and the teleological character of our existence. This book appeals to students and researchers and presents a genetic account of our selfhood, one that unifies Husserl’s different claims about who and what we are. Acknowledgements Introduction The Liberating Impulse of Phenomenology Husserl’s Phenomenology The Original Motivation of Husserl’s Phenomenology The Tensions Inherent in Phenomenology Contents Chapter 1: The Refutation of Psychologism The Arguments of Psychologism Husserl’s Critique Circularities The Priority of the Epistemological Standpoint Chapter 2: Ontological Dualism: The Real and the Ideal The Ideal as an Ontological Category An Objection Subjective Accomplishment Ontological Dualism Causality and the World-Form Species as Ideal Possibilities Patočka on the Possibilities of Appearing Categorial Representation Chapter 3: Our Consciousness of Time Issues The Schema Retentions, Impressions and Interpretations The Time Diagram and the Constitution of the Temporal Object The Constitution of the Perception and the Perceived Protention and Its Time Diagram Protention and Interpretation Resolution Chapter 4: The Phenomenological Reduction and the Transformation of Phenomenology Motivating Connections The Phenomenological Reduction The Ego’s Relation to the Reduction Transcendental Idealism and the Creative Power of Consciousness Chapter 5: Others The Task The Account of the Cartesian Meditations: The Constitution of the Sense of the Other The Constitution of the Actuality of the Other Objections The Reduction to the Living Present Coincidence and Primal Empathy The Common World The Primal, Absolute Ego Husserl’s Response Final Remarks Chapter 6: Embodiment The Paradox of Human Subjectivity Hyletic Data Hylectic Data and Time Consciousness Instincts and the Temporal Process Constitution and Self-Preservation Pleasure and Time Constitution Self-Touch and the Constitution of the Ego as Embodied Self-Touch and the Recognition of Others Chapter 7: Mortality and Beyond The Constitution of the Self as Mortal Constitution as Teleological Process Reason and Teleology God as a Teleological Concept Bibliography Author Index Subject Index