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Review of \u3cem\u3eKant and Phenomenology\u3c/em\u3e
Photograph of Ted on Barker's Ark, taken Campion Hill site, 13 May 1961 close up portrait. A3
Husserl\u27s Notion of the Natural Attitude and the Shift to Transcendental Phenomenology
R. Wilson's Reverchon Matterhorn - MH13 - Phantom Chase photographed 11 October 1984
The Subjectivity of Effective History and the Suppressed Husserlian Elements in Gadamerâs Philosophical Hermeneutics
This essay makes two claims. The first, exegetical, point shows that there are Husserlian elements in Gadamerâs hermeneutics that are usually overlooked. The second, systematic, claim takes issue with the fact that Gadamer saw himself in alliance with the project of the later Heidegger. It would have been more fruitful had Gadamer aligned himself with Husserl and the enlightenment tradition. following Heidegger in his concept of âeffective history,â Gadamer risks betraying the main tenets of the enlightenment by shifting the weight from subjectivity to effective history as the âagentâ in history. This is not a wholesale dismissal of Gadamerâs project, however. The problem in Gadamerâs effective history can be remedied by insisting, with Husserl, on the subjective character of effective history. Gadamer was right to criticize Husserlâs idea of a transcendental genesis, but went too far in giving up the idea of human subjectivity as the agent in history
Husserlâs Concept of the âTranscendental Personâ: Another Look at the HusserlâHeidegger Relationship
This paper offers a further look at Husserlâs late thought on the transcendental subject and the HusserlâHeidegger relationship. It attempts a reconstruction of how Husserl hoped to assert his own thoughts on subjectivity vis-Ă -vis Heidegger, while also pointing out where Husserl did not reach the new level that Heidegger attained. In his late manuscripts, Husserl employs the term âtranscendental personâ to describe the transcendental ego in its fullest âconcretionâ. I maintain that although this concept is a consistent development of Husserlâs earlier analyses of constitution, Husserl was also defending himself against Heidegger, who criticized him for framing the subject in terms of transcendental ego rather than as Dasein. Husserl was convinced that he could successfully respond to Heideggerâs critique, but he did not grasp that Heideggerâs fundamental ontology was an immanent development, rather than a scathing criticism, of his own phenomenology
Cassirerâs Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Between Reason and Relativism; a Critical Appraisal
This paper pursues the double task of (a) presenting Cassirerâs Philosophy of Symbolic Forms as a systematic critique of culture and (b) assessing this systematic approach with regards to the question of reason vs. relativism. First, it reconstructs the development of his theory to its mature presentation in his Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. Cassirer here presents a critique of culture as fulfilling Kantâs critical work by insisting on the plurality of reason as spirit, manifesting itself in symbolic forms. In the second part, the consequences of this approach will be drawn by considering the systematics Cassirer intended with this theory. As can be reconstructed from his metaphilosophical reflections, the strength of Cassirerâs philosophy is that it accounts for the plurality of rational-spiritual activity while at the same time not succumbing to a relativism. The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms steers a middle course between a rational fundamentalism and a postmodern relativism
âReal-Idealismâ: An Unorthodox Husserlian Response to the Question of Transcendental Idealism
Kant, Neo-Kantianism, and Phenomenology
This chapter offers a reassessment of the relationship between Kant, the Kantian tradition, and phenomenology, here focusing mainly on Husserl and Heidegger. Part of this reassessment concerns those philosophers who, during the lives of Husserl and Heidegger, sought to defend an updated version of Kantâs philosophy, the neo-Kantians. The chapter shows where the phenomenologists were able to benefit from some of the insights on the part of Kant and the neo-Kantians, but also clearly points to the differences. The aim of this chapter is to offer a fair evaluation of the relation of the main phenomenologists to Kant and to what was at the time the most powerful philosophical movement in Europe
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