The World Given As Pre-Given: A Phenomenological Approach To World-Constitution
The World Given As Pre-Given: A Phenomenological Approach To World-Constitution

Summary/Abstract: The veritable challenge of Husserl’s phenomenology has always been the understanding of the relation between transcendence and the constituting ego. Indeed, since transcendence is the correlate of the transcendental subject, every phenomenological question has to start with a clarification of the mundane being. Yet, phenomenology is non-vocational and non-presumptive, pointing not to claims about real being/non-being or actuality/non-actuality, but to questions regarding the constitution of this being. The transition from manners of being to manners of givenness determines the question of worldconstitution and unveils complex difficulties, which translate the effort of a long epistemological tradition. Namely, how is it possible to constitute transcendence as such without falling pray to either a reductive idealism, a dogmatic realism, or to a metaphysical scepticism? The “riddle of transcendence” is therefore a deep problematic that requires a careful investigation of the manner in which the world exposes itself as phenomenal transcendence.

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