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Storia, vita e fenomenologia trascendentale nei recenti materiali husserliani
No full textThis paper explores some recently published materials from Husserl’s Nachlass.
The author argues that they offer resources for a better understanding of Husserl’s
view of history. In particular, they prove that Husserl’s reflections on history and the
historical world are intended to be radical responses to the schools of Neo-Kantianism
and Lebensphilosophie and are only fully intelligible in this context. The bulk of Husserl’s
analysis revolves around the notion of a constituting life at the origin of both nature
and culture. In this respect, he sides with philosophers like Simmel and Dilthey.
However, transcendental life is for Husserl accessible with the aid of the phenomenological
reduction and thus suitable for scientific investigation. The upshot of this analysis
is the discovery of a complex but non-chaotic interrelation of natural life, transcendental
life and history. These are not separate spheres of reality but rather facets of one
and the same dynamic of transcendental constitution
Personal Character: From Naturalism to Phenomenology
No full textIn this paper I address the naturalistic assumptions in the contemporary philosophical debate about character. I begin with a brief reconstruction of the controversy between dispositionalists and situationists in moral psychology and then turn to Christian Miller’s recent proposal of a Mixed-Traits approach to character in Section I. Section II raises the familiar problem of explanatory circularity in the appeal to character traits and discusses Miller’s proposed solution in terms of grounding character traits in deeper dispositions to form beliefs and desires. Section III introduces the notion of structural naturalism as the threefold underlying assumption in the contemporary debate. Section IV introduces a personalistic perspective on character following Edmund Husserl’s idea of the personalistic attitude. The following three sections (V, VI, and VII) propose alternatives to the threefold assumption of structural naturalism drawing on the work of Edmund Husserl, Edith Stein and Alexander Pfänder. In the conclusion I recapitulate my argument and emphasize how phenomenology could contribute valuable insights for a radical reconfiguration of the debate on character
Reactivating Husserl’s Crisis. D. Moran, Introduction to Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (Cambridge University Press 2012).
No full textPresentations and evaluations: A new look at Husserl's distinction between objectifying and non‐objectifying acts
Full text linkIn this paper, I take a fresh look at Husserl's key distinction between objectifying and non-objectifying acts, which roughly amounts to a distinction between presentational and evaluative experiences. My goal is to provide a clear and unified reconstruction of Husserl's argument for the thesis that non-objectifying acts are necessarily founded in objectifying acts, a thesis that is highly controversial in and beyond Husserlian scholarship. In the first section, I reconstruct Husserl's view in the Logical Investigations, according to which only objectifying acts establish an independent intentional relation to their objects, and argue that it is justified by the positing function of objectifying acts. In the second section, I address two problematic interpretations of this view and, after criticizing them, I present what I take to be Husserl's core argument for his position. In the third section, I turn to the revision of the view of the Logical Investigations that Husserl proposes in the wake of his transcendental turn, especially in Ideas I and II. On Husserl's revised view, all acts are objectifying, including emotional acts [Gemütsakte]. This revision has led scholars to consider Husserl's view aporetic. I propose an alternative interpretation that dispels the purported aporia. I conclude with some remarks on the costs and benefits of my reading, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of Husserl's view in general
Husserls Liebesethik im südwestdeutschen neukantianischen Kontext
No full textIn this paper, I argue that an adequate understanding of Husserl’s late ethics of love requires careful consideration of the Neo-Kantian milieu in Southwest Germany. After discussing some general aspects of the contextualization of Husserl’s phenomenology and, in particular, Husserl’s ethics, I move to consider his transition from an action-centered to a life-centered conception of ethics. I show that this transition is largely indebted to Georg Simmel’s critique of Kant’s practical philosophy. In the second part of the paper, I argue that the problem of the value of individuality (Wertindividualit"t) that defines Emil Lask’s early work on Fichte and Heinrich Rickert’s conception of erotics (Erotik) as an autonomous domain of value is the same problem behind Husserl’s re-conceptualization of ethics around the experience of a personal call issuing from a value affecting the subject in an absolute fashion
Fragmentes de radicalité. Compte-rendu de: Ronald Bruzina, Edmund Husserl & Eugen Fink : Beginnings and Ends in Phenomenology, 1928-1938, Yale University Press, New Haven u.a. 2004
No full textHuman Culture and the One Structure: On Luft's Reading of the Late Husserl
No full textThis article presents and discusses Sebastian Luft’s recent interpretation
of Husserl’s late phenomenology. Luft argues that Husserl envisioned a
hermeneutic phenomenology of the cultural world, thereby articulating a
project that can be considered complementary with Cassirer’s philosophy
of symbolic forms. Three of Luft’s claims, in particular, are assessed and
criticized: (1) the Cartesian Husserl and the life-world Husserl pursue
two separate agendas; (2) Husserl’s genetic phenomenology is fundamentally
compatible with Paul Natorp’s project of a reconstructive psychology;
(3) Husserl’s late work is oriented towards hermeneutical understanding
of the world of culture
Il luogo della verità. La presenza di Agostino nella fenomenologia di Husserl
No full textIn questo saggio esploro tutti i riferimenti ad Agostino nel corpus edito e inedito husserliano mettendo in luce affinità e differenze tra le concezioni di soggettività dei due filosofi
Jack Reynolds. Phenomenology, Naturalism, and Science: A Hybrid and Heretical Proposal. Routledge 2018. 220 pp. $145.00 USD (Hardcover ISBN 9781138924383).
Full text linkA Grasp From Afar: Überschau and the Givenness of Life in Husserlian Phenomenology
No full textIn this paper I explore the issue of how our personal life is given to us in
experience as a whole to be actively shaped and determined. I examine in detail
Husserl’s analysis of the kind of experience responsible for this achievement, which
he terms U ̈berschau and which thus far has never been addressed by scholars of
phenomenology. First, I locate U ̈berschau in the context of self-determination and
highlight the difference between the unthematic pre-givenness of life in the phenomenon
of self-awareness and the actual, i.e. thematic givenness of life in acts of
U ̈berschau. Second, I contextualize Husserl’s discovery of U ̈berschau in his analyses
of ethical life and the possibility of a universal epoche ́. I argue that for Husserl
the very possibility of ethical life and of phenomenology itself rest on the totalizing
apprehension of one’s life rendered possible by U ̈berschau. In the third section I
spell out the essential characteristics of U ̈berschau by contrasting this peculiar kind
of consciousness with reproductive forms of consciousness such as recollection and
expectation, which otherwise might be easily conflated with U ̈berschau. In section
four I reply to a possible objection to the very possibility of U ̈berschau based on the
consideration of the infinitely open stream of time-consciousness. I argue that the
possibility of U ̈berschau is tightly connected with the egological nature of consciousness
as understood by Husserl. The ego does not coincide with its own
conscious acts and thus enjoys a special vantage point on the totality of its own life.
To conclude, I advance a speculative suggestion about the phenomenological origin
of U ̈berschau in the structure of self-awareness. This opens up a variety of possible
lines of research that would connect Husserl with philosophers such as Augustine or
Heidegger who are more immediately associated with the issue of personal life and its unity or lack thereof
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