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HUSSERL, Edmund (1859–1938), philosopher, founder of phenome…
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HUSSERL, Edmund (1859–1938), philosopher, founder of phenome…
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HUSSERL, Edmund (1859–1938), philosopher, founder of phenomenology.
L.S. ‘EHusserl’ with handwritten additions and corrections, Freiburg 25 October 1925, to a colleague [the philosopher Johannes VOLKLET]; 2 pages, quarto; in German.
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Having returned home after a long journey, he received his colleague’s new work—one of the finest works devoted to the phenomenology of time [Phänomenologie und Metaphysik der Zeit, 1925]—which he immediately began to study. The problem of time has preoccupied him for decades, and chiefly the question of what constitutes, within the experience of movement, this experience of movement itself in its aspect as immanent time, namely, how the mode of being of the individual self—which is necessary for the life of consciousness—manifests itself, and how real objective time and the temporal world are constituted. To address this problem, he focused – in accordance with the principle of his transcendental phenomenology – on intentional sequences and the intentional acts that arise from them: ‘For decades now, the problem of time has preoccupied me greatly, specifically in the following form: how, within the flowing experience, this flowing experience itself and its form of immanent time are constituted – that is to say, how, so to speak, the mode of being of the self-as-it-appears, which is necessary for the life of consciousness,-its-self-being, and how, furthermore, ‘objectively’ real time and the world of time are constituted within the medium of immanent time. I have therefore, within this problem framework and in accordance with the spirit of my transcendental phenomenology, thoroughly explored the intentional connections and the intentional acts that take shape within them »…
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