Intentionality and Transcendence: Closure and Openness in Husserl' s Phenomenology

by Byers, Damian

• ISBN13: 9780299188542
• ISBN10: 029918854X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

Damian Byers describes the form Husserl gives to the problem of knowledge--the way this form influences the development of the phenomenological method, and the results of its application. In a very clear fashion, Byers presents Husserl's understanding of the roles of intentionality, idealism, temporalization, and kinesthesia in the constitution of knowledge. Drawing upon all of Husserl's major texts, he corrects many misapprehensions about Husserl's doctrines of intentionality and idealism.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Part One Search for Method
Husserl's Problem	3	(4)
The Phenomenon of Knowing: Transcendence and Intentionality	3	(2)
The Conflict within Knowing	5	(1)
The Problem	6	(1)
Beginnings of Phenomenological Method: The Epistemological Reduction	7	(14)
``Presuppositionlessness'' as the Ideal Guiding the Development of Method	7	(1)
The Meaning of Epistemological Reduction	7	(9)
Reduction as Abstractive Exclusion	16	(1)
The Domain of Pure Immanence: Husserl's First Proposal	17	(1)
Conclusion	18	(3)
Abstractive Exclusion as a Procedure of Enclosure	21	(28)
The ``Narrow Phenomenological Sphere'': The ``Lived-through'' as the Domain of Immanence	21	(2)
Two Kinds of Really Inherent Content	23	(3)
The Meaning of the Region of the Really Inherent: Intentional Act?	26	(1)
The Expansion of the ``Narrow Phenomenological Sphere''	27	(3)
Proto-Epoche: The Emergence of the Intentional Object	30	(2)
Refocused Presuppositionlessness	32	(2)
The Phenomenological Sense of the Intentional Object	34	(5)
Phenomenological Reduction as Enclosure	39	(3)
Methodological Premonitions of Openness: The Dialectic of Intention and Fulfillment	42	(7)
Examination and Critique of the Reduction as a Procedure of Abstractive Exclusion	49	(8)
Presuppositions Underlying the Procedure of Abstractive Exclusion	49	(3)
The Actual Practice of Abstraction in Mundane Phenomenology: The Attempt to Establish ``Purity'' within the General Thesis of the Natural Attitude	52	(1)
Exclusion	53	(1)
The General Thesis of the Natural Attitude	54	(1)
Conclusion	55	(2)
The Transcendental Reduction	57	(24)
Restatement of the Epistemological Problem in Light of the Ontology of the Natural Attitude	57	(2)
The Dual-Directedness of the Horizon of Prefamiliarity	59	(1)
Worldliness as the Presupposition of the Natural Attitude	60	(2)
Transcendental Reduction	62	(10)
Thematization of Transcendence and Intentionality through the Transcendental Reduction: Transcendence as Transcendental Acceptance; Intentionality as Transcendental Acceptor	72	(4)
Conclusion	76	(5)
Part Two Analysis and Discoveries
Reorienting the Problem	81	(4)
Husserl's Preliminary Determination of the Domains of Immanence and Transcendence	85	(8)
The Principle of Indubitability	85	(2)
Application of the Principle	87	(6)
The Constitution and Status of the Real Object	93	(38)
The Constitution of the Real Object: Transcendence as Identity	94	(5)
The Being of the Object	99	(8)
The Presumptiveness of the Object	107	(1)
Real Object as Transcendence-in-Immanence	108	(2)
The First Aspect of Openness: ``Facticity''	110	(1)
The Law of the Synthesis	111	(7)
The Principle of Synthesis: No Intrusion of Alterity	118	(1)
Facticity and Openness	119	(12)
The Immanent Object: Primal Constitution of Identity	131	(40)
From Static to Genetic Phenomenology	131	(11)
The Constitution of the Immanent Object: Temporal Syntheses	142	(11)
The Constitution of the Immanent Object: Kinaesthetic and Associative Syntheses	153	(12)
The Status of the Immanent Object	165	(6)
Derrida and Non-Phenomenologically Reducible Transcendence	171	(10)
Context for Discussion of Derrida	171	(1)
Derrida's Position and its Implications for the Husserlian Enterprise	172	(2)
The Dynamic of Recollection and Expectation	174	(1)
Critique of Derrida	175	(3)
Conclusion	178	(3)
Immanence as Absolute Subjectivity	181	(8)
Conclusion	189	(10)
Object as Infinite Idea	190	(2)
The Development of Transcendental Constitutional Abilities and Powers	192	(2)
Protention and Actualization	194	(1)
The Incompleteness of the Identity of the ``Ego''	195	(1)
Beyond Metaphysics	196	(3)
Bibliography	199	(4)
Index of Names	203	(1)
Index of Subjects	204