From Affectivity to Subjectivity: Husserl's Phenomenology Revisited

181 Pages·2008·1.07 MB·English

by  Christian Lotz

From Affectivity to
Subjectivity
Husserl’s Phenomenology Revisited
Christian Lotz
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From Affectivity to Subjectivity
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From Affectivity to
Subjectivity
Husserl’s Phenomenology Revisited
Christian Lotz
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From affectivity to subjectivity:Husserl's phenomenology revisited
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Meditating on Husserl’s Phenomenology 1
Chapter One: Phenomenology 8
§1.1. The imaginative and anthropological motive 8
Natural ways to the reduction? 10
A proposal to broaden the debate 12
Phantasy, reflection, eidetics 13
Thinking as playing 20
§1.2. The hermeneutical motive 24
Derrida’s intervention 25
“Pure I” and the totality of the “monad” 27
Ricoeur’s extension 32
Totality and understanding 33
From static to genetic analysis 37
Genetic analysis and the event of the incomprehensible 39
Chapter Two: Affectivity 40
§2.1. Affecting oneself 40
Affection and the body 43
Proto-ethical nature of affection 48
Higher forms of affection 56
§2.2. Affection and tenderness 60
Sensation and affection 63
Gehlen: Bodily communication 68
Longing 71
Levinas’s extension 73
Consequences 77
§2.3. Affection and longing 77
Remarks on Husserl and Fichte 78
Fichte’s extension 82
Sensing 85
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§2.4. Affecting the other 89
Husserl’s theory of intersubjectivity 92
Kinaesthetic affectivity 97
Non-delayed imitation as joining in 101
Mirroring 103
Mirroring and imitation 105
Chapter Three: Subjectivity 109
§3.1. Subjective life 109
Presentification, phantasy, memory 110
Theoretical unavailability 118
Practical availability 128
§3.2. Conclusion: Husserl’s phenomenology revisited 132
Notes 136
Bibliography 159
Index 168