Thursday, November 01, 2007

De Warren, Nicolas. "Review of Kevin Hermberg's HUSSERL'S PHENOMENOLOGY: KNOWLEDGE, OBJECTIVITY AND OTHERS." NDPR November 1, 2007.

Recent reappraisals of transcendental phenomenology have increasingly underscored and explored the central role of inter-subjectivity for Husserl's brand of transcendental idealism. Though little of Husserl's interest in inter-subjectivity surfaced in his published writings (with the exception of the Cartesian Meditations), this interest is apparent in Husserl’s unusually impressive quantity of manuscripts, many of which are available in three hefty Husserliana (XIII-XV) volumes published in 1973. This re-discovery of transcendental inter-subjectivity forcefully challenges a misconstrued Cartesian image of phenomenology that inexplicably still plagues the reception of Husserl's seminal thinking. For Husserl, inter-subjectivity is both a constituted phenomenon in need of clarification and a constituting monadic multiplicity that contributes decisively to the objective world's transcendence, open to all and any possible experiencing subject. . . . Read the rest of the review here: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=11524.

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