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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rump, Jacob
• Jacobs, Hanne

Titel

Reduction and reflection after the continental-analytic divide

Ist Teil von

• The Husserlian Mind, 2022, Vol.1, p.117-128

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Husserl’s conception of radical, ongoing reflection in light of changing historical-philosophical context should lead us to reconsider also the meaning of the phenomenological reduction itself. Rather than surveying the vast secondary literature on the reduction, this chapter provides such a reconsideration, focusing on topics of interest in theoretical philosophy in our current moment, after the analytic-continental divide. In light of Husserl’s application of the reduction to historicity, presuppositions of contemporary theoretical philosophy – especially scientistic and linguistic preconceptions about meaning inherited from the period of the divide – appear as products of a particular moment of philosophical consciousness that demand rethinking. Radical reflection similarly points beyond the inherited, intellectualized conception of I-subjectivity toward embodied we-subjectivity, as demonstrated in Husserl’s accounts of the intersubjective reduction. The reduction is thus interpreted as revealing a historically contextualized world of meaning always already intersubjectively constituted down to the prepredicative level of lived bodies – not exclusively at the level of shared language, concepts, or discourse. Husserl’s notions of reduction and reflection thus interpreted are of great relevance for contemporary post-divide topics such as the critiques of representationalism, cognitivism, and epistemological intellectualism, and anticipate the increasing interest across the traditions in collective intentionality, empathy, and embodiment. Husserl’s conception of radical, ongoing reflection in light of changing historical-philosophical context should lead to reconsider the meaning of the phenomenological reduction itself. This chapter provides a reconsideration, focusing on topics of interest in theoretical philosophy in our current moment, after the analytic-continental divide. Husserl’s notions of reduction and reflection thus interpreted are of great relevance for contemporary post-divide topics such as the critiques of representationalism, cognitivism, and epistemological intellectualism, and anticipate the increasing interest across the traditions in collective intentionality, empathy, and embodiment. Interpretations of the reduction in Husserl in the secondary literature are extensive and complex. Husserl says that the intentionality operative at this level “does not lie open to the view of reflection but is only implied in the sedimentations which refer to it”.