The Veil of Appearance. Phenomenological Inquiries on Husserlian Methodology
Abstract
This paper explores the role of appearance in Husserl’s theory of knowledge, stressing its importance and its necessity. Far from being an accident that clarity, evidence or reality can evacuate, appearance is constitutive of our experience and of our approach of its grounding principles. In the light of this idea of appearance, the contingent aspects of our lived experience become an expression of the sense-formation process supporting and transforming it. This paper is a contribution to a larger discussion – including, among others, Eugen Fink, Michel Henry and Jean-Paul Sartre – about the relationship between phenomenology and ontology, about the nature of our knowledge and our experience of freedom.
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KANT, E. (1772 [2009]). «Letter to Markus Herz». In: E. Watkins (ed.). Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: Background Materials. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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MORAN, D. (2007). «Fink’s Speculative Phenomenology: Between Constitution and Transcendence». Research in Phenomenology, 37: 3-31.
POPA, D. (2012). Apparence et réalité. Phénoménologie et psychologie de l’imagination. Hildesheim : Olms.
RICHIR, M. (1991). «La vérité de l’apparence». La part de l’oeil, 7: 229-236.
SARTRE, J.-P. (1943 [1992]), Being and Nothingness. Hazel E. Barnes (Trans.). New York: Washington Square Press.
— (1937 [1957]). The Transcendence of the ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness. Translated by F. Williams and R. Kirkpatrick, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.
Published
2018-08-06
How to Cite
POPA, Delia.
The Veil of Appearance. Phenomenological Inquiries on Husserlian Methodology.
Phainomenon, [S.l.], n. 27, p. 53-67, aug. 2018.
ISSN 2183-0142.
Available at: <https://phainomenon-journal.pt/index.php/phainomenon/article/view/368>. Date accessed: 25 apr. 2024.
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