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Four Phenomenological Philosophers is the 1st booklet to envision the key texts of the prime figures of phenomenology in a single quantity. In separate chapters, the ebook explores the information of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty with designated readings in their most crucial texts. an information of those key thinkers and their significant texts is key to an figuring out of the various significant topics of latest philosophy, from hermeneutics and existentialism to postmodernism and deconstructivism.
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Between the one and the other real being (Realen), the real man or the real perception on the one hand, and the real apple-tree on the other, there subsist real relations’ (§88). From a phenomenological standpoint all this undergoes a radical alteration. The perception becomes an actual (reell) perceiving whose object is an ideal (ideal) meaning, the perceived as such. The lived experience is unreal, in the sense that it features as an actual component of a consciousness which is no longer to be thought of as a psychic reality.
This backward reference is then reinforced with a distinction between immanent and transcendent perceptions. Any cogitatio, say the perception of an object, can itself become the object of a higher order reflective act which makes of this consciousness (of the object) an object of reflective consciousness. In so doing the earlier reference to transcendent reality is replaced with an immanental relation (see §38). What interests Husserl about these immanentally directed experiences is their ‘self-containedness’—what he will later call the ‘absolute’ character of consciousness as opposed to the merely ‘relative’ character of that transcendental reality which can only exist for consciousness.
But how can I, the constituter, establish with regard to the body that distance characteristic of the intentional relation when the body to be constituted is my own body, since the phenomenon in question only manifests itself as such in so far as I am it, coincide with it? As soon as I establish with regard to my body that distance which is the necessary prerequisite for any intentional investigation whatsoever one of two things happens: either my body gets transformed into a physical body (and as such a body which can be analysed along the same lines as any other physical body) or my body gets transformed into a psychic body (which, at best, floats ambiguously between the physical and the psychological - the so-called psycho-somatic unity—at worst, 44 FOUR PHENOMENOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHERS gets dragged down into the realm of the psychological).
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