Normativity and Teleology in Husserl’s Genetic Phenomenology

Based on the analysis of the previously unpublished heritage of Eh. Husserl, the so-called “Bernau-manuscripts” in the horizon of genetic phenomenology, a holistic consideration of subjectivity from the affectively pre-given to the Self as a collection of the self is outlined. Passive synthesis and passive genesis are analysed at the level of sensuality, which refers to the pre-predicative experience of affеction and genetically precedes the thematic correlation between the subject and the world. The accumulation of one’s own Self takes place in onto-reflexive processes through effective communication. Where the Self itself is the identical center, the pole with which the entire content of the stream of experiences is correlated.

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Genetic Phenomenology and the Problem of Generativity

Husserl and the Idea of Europe ◽

10.2307/j.ctvx0779x.6 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 61-71

Keyword(s):

Genetic Phenomenology

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Static and Genetic Phenomenology

The Origins of Meaning - Phaenomenologica ◽

10.1007/978-94-009-6778-6_6 ◽

1983 ◽

pp. 166-183

Author(s):

Donn Welton

Keyword(s):

Genetic Phenomenology

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From Personal Threat to Cross-Cultural Learning: an Eidetic Investigation

Journal of Phenomenological Psychology ◽

10.1163/15691624-12341368 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 51 (1) ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

Eugene M. DeRobertis ◽

Andrew M. Bland

Keyword(s):

Emotional Expression ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

The Other ◽

Cultural Learning ◽

Human Being ◽

Genetic Phenomenology ◽

Cultural Encounter ◽

New Meanings ◽

Personal Threat

Abstract This study was an eidetic, phenomenological investigation of cross-cultural learning that involves overcoming an experience of personal threat. The study and its findings were placed within the context of Husserl’s genetic phenomenology and the extant humanistic literature on cross-cultural encounter. This appeared especially appropriate given phenomenology’s history “within the movement of the so-called ‘Third Force’ psychology” (Giorgi, 1970, p. xi). The eidetic reduction revealed the phenomenon to be rooted in an essential unfamiliarity with the other compounded by presumptions of the other as representing a substandard foreignness harboring danger. For the phenomenon to unfold required the learner to witness spontaneous emotional expression and empathically discover that the other struggles and suffers “like any other human being.” Openness to the other progressively builds and new meanings emerge from the interpersonal exchange as compartmentalized, intellectualized understandings of the other are outmoded.

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Phenomenology of Embodied Personhood and the Challenges of Naturalism in Pain Research

Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy ◽

10.1515/yewph-2017-0008 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Saulius Geniusas

Keyword(s):

Genetic Phenomenology ◽

Pain Experience ◽

Pain Research ◽

Basic Understanding ◽

Neurological Processes

AbstractHere I distinguish three fundamental ways in which the naturalistically oriented science of pain has critically engaged phenomenology. The science of pain has either denied any role phenomenology could play in scientific pain research, or it has aimed to correlate phenomenological findings with neurological processes, or it has pursued a genuine dialogue with phenomenology, yet only insofar as phenomenology is conceived in line with the principles of static methodology. I argue that genetic phenomenology of embodied personhood offers a fourth and most promising way to pursue a dialogue between phenomenology and the science of pain. By drawing a distinction between the naturalistic and the personalistic attitudes, genetic phenomenology invites one to reinterpret the neurological conceptions of pain as modifications derived from a more basic understanding of pain experience.

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