NDLI: Husserl’s motivation and method for phenomenological reconstruction

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Author	Bower, Matt
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	In this paper I present an account of Husserl’s approach to the phenomenological reconstruction of consciousness’s immemorial past, a problem, I suggest, that is quite pertinent for defenders of Lockean psychological continuity views of personal identity. To begin, I sketch the background of the problem facing the very project of a genetic phenomenology, within which the reconstructive analysis is situated. While the young Husserl took genetic matters to be irrelevant to the main task of phenomenology, he would later come to see their importance and, indeed, centrality as the precursor and subsoil for the rationality of consciousness. I then argue that there is a close connection between reconstruction and genetic phenomenology, such that reconstruction is a necessary component of the program of genetic phenomenology, and I set out Husserl’s argument that compels one to enter into reconstructive territory. With that impetus, I schematically lay out the main contours one finds in Husserl’s practice of reconstructive techniques. We find him taking two distinct approaches, that of the individual viewed egologically (through the abstract lens of a single individual’s consciousness) and as embedded in interpersonal relations. Husserl occasionally calls these the approach “from within” and “from without,” respectively. Ultimately, the two approaches are not only complementary, but require one another. In closing, I argue that these considerations lead to a blurring of lines between the genetic and generative phenomenological registers, which challenges the prevalent view that there is a sharp demarcation of the two.
Starting Page	135
Ending Page	152
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13872842
Journal	Continental Philosophy Review
Volume Number	47
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15731103
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-05-23
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Edmund Husserl Phenomenology Genetic phenomenology Reconstruction Intentionality Memory Philosophy of Man Political Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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