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Phenomenological Deconstruction: Husserl's Method of Abbau

Pages 14-25 | Published online: 21 Oct 2014

Bibliography

  • References to the works of Heidegger and Husserl list the page numbers of the German edition followed by the English translation, if any.
  • Cairns, Dorion. Guide for Translating Husserl. (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973).
  • Conversations with Husserl and Fink. (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976).
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References

  • And not, as Landgrebe asserts in his editor's forward, to 1919–20. (Cf. Husserl 1938, viii/5; Hua VII, XXXV and Hua XI, xxi).
  • Cf. Carr 1974, 212–213.
  • Husserl does not use the term “sialic” in this manuscript. He does, however, contrast static and genetic phenomenology in manuscripts written a few months earlier. Cf. Hua XIV, 40f.
  • For a discussion of the “method of systematic dismantling,” Cf. Yamaguchi, 104f.
  • Iso Kem, the editor of Husserliana XV, identifies genetic and progressive phenomenology (xliv).
  • Cf. also Hua XV, 530–531.
  • However, the concrete manner in which the reduction to owness is carried out makes it impossible to interpret it as a consistent Abbau. Dorion Caims was able to show in lectures that the reduction of the 5th Meditation is contradictory as it stands. Iso Kem has shown that it falls victim to a deep ambiguity between a selective thematization (“Ausgrenzung”) and a true Abbau (Cf. Hua XV, xviii-xxi; Cf. also 634f.).
  • The word “constitutional” is presumably used here to translate “aufbauende” or building up, as opposed to “konstitutive”. The correlative methods of Abbau and Aufbau will be discussed below.
  • These remarks are based on extensive lectures notes taken by Richard Zaner in Fall, 1957.
  • These are the translations suggested by Cairns in his Guide for Translating Husserl.
  • Cf. Chapters 7 and 8 for Carr's careful interpretation of the Crisis.
  • As always in Husserl, the term “immediate” must be interpreted strictly in terms of the context. Any connotations of cognitive immediacy in a Humean sense (or of W. Sellars' “myth of the given”) must be avoided unless it can be shown that the context demands such an interpretation. That Husserl is ultimately committed to such an immediacy is the presupposition of Derrida's deconstructive reading in Speech and Phenomenon. I plan to investigate Derrida's claims in a book to be entitled Strategies of Deconstruction.
  • The context of the appearance of the word “Abbau” in Appendix XXV of the Krisis is clearly in line with the main text of the Crisis, and not Experience and Judgment, since it identifies “was ständig (als) Welt im konkreten Leben gegeben ist” and “die vortheoretische Umwelt” (Hua VI, 498).
  • The phrase “actually occur” would of course cover the entire range of a free phantasy variation under the title, “experience of the pre-given world.”
  • This need not be interpreted as a deviation from the position of the Crisis, however, if we recall that the discussion of Galileo is a “reconstruction” (Hua VI, 20/23) which “attempt[s] to strike through the crust of the externalized ‘historical facts’ of philosophical history” (16/22). Whether the historical Galileo or anyone else actually followed the train of thought which Husserl delineates is strictly speaking irrelevant.

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