Remarks on Appearing and Appearance in Husserl
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https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-7178/5942Keywords:
Appearance, Phenomenological Reflection, Phenomenological Manifold, Husserl, Phenomenological EvidenceAbstract
A strand in the contemporary engagement with Husserl’s phenomenology is united by the critical judgment that the appearing of the appearance paradoxically does not appear in that phenomenology. I argue that it does. My argument has three parts. The first argues that, contra Heidegger, the appearance in Husserl doesn’t involve the “self-showing” of anything. The second argues that the appearance in Husserl is a phenomenon doubly purified, from 1) its index of existence and 2) its empirical facticity. The third argues that the appearing of the appearance appears in manifolds of lived-experiences that in turn appear in the only foundation that – from beginning to end – Husserl sought to establish for a philosophical science: the reflectively accessed unities of sense (Sinn) given in these manifolds that alone are capable of manifesting phenomenological evidence.
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