School of English Language and Literature - A.U.Th.
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Abstract
In this paper, I explore Edmund Husserl's account of the life-world for evidence that he posits it as the living flesh of the transcendental ego and thus as our primordial object-relation. In so doing, I attempt to rehabilitate and defend Husserl's notion of transcendental subjectivity, of the a priori, by noting how one's embodiment in many concrete experiences calls for and bears witness to this transcendental foundation of itself. After developing my reading of Husserl's account of the life-world, I then turn to the phenomenological psychology of John Russon in his book Human Experience to show how Husserl's life-world as the primordial object-relation opens us onto a very concrete vision of intersubjectivity
