Expecting the World

In developing his positive account of protention, Husserl is forced to alter his understanding not just of time-consciousness but also of transcendental subjective constitution itself. We encounter the world as always already constituted rather than as some raw content or hyletic data in need of sub...

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Published inFuturity in Phenomenology p. 28
Main Author Deroo, Neal
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Fordham University Press 01.02.2013
Subjects
Abstract entities
Apperception
Behavioral sciences
Cognitive psychology
Concept of mind
Consciousness theory
Continental Philosophy
Ego
Epistemology
expectation
Freudian personality theory
Historical methodology
Historicity
History
horizons
Husserl
Intuition
Judgment
levels of constituting consciousness
Metaphilosophy
Metaphysics
modes of givenness
Nominalism
Ontology
passive synthesis
Personality
Personality psychology
Personality theories
Phenomenology
Philosophical object
Philosophy
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of Religion
Psychology
Subjectivity
Transcendentals
Western philosophy
World
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Summary:In developing his positive account of protention, Husserl is forced to alter his understanding not just of time-consciousness but also of transcendental subjective constitution itself. We encounter the world as always already constituted rather than as some raw content or hyletic data in need of subsequent apprehension. The potentially infinite chain of subsequent constituting acts of consciousness can be arrested only by the self-constituting nature of absolute consciousness. But as self-constituting, absolute consciousness seems to fail to open us onto the world, leaving us instead protending retentions and retaining previous protentions. Husserl’s account of transverse intentionality is supposed to get
ISBN:0823244644
9780823244645
DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823244645.003.0003