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Time and Spatial Models: Temporality in Husserl

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Abstract

RECENT TREATMENTS OF TIME IN HUSSERL PURPORT TO GIVE AN\nACCOUNT OF THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF WHAT HUSSERL\nTERMS INNER TIME-CONSCIOUSNESS, THE IMMANENT TEMPORALITY\nTHAT IS THE PRIMAL CONSTITUTIVE SOURCE OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE.\nA MAJOR DIFFICULTY WITH THESE PRESENTATIONS OF HUSSERL'S\nTIME-THEORY IS THAT THEY CONTINUE TO USE THEORETICALLY\nREDUCTIONIST MODELS FOR TIME, BASED ON A SENSE OF "FLOW"\nTHAT IS DRAWN FROM OBJECTIVE-PHYSICAL SPACE AND OBJECTS\nEXTENDED THROUGH SUCH SPACE. SUCH TREATMENTS FAIL TO\nCAPTURE THE VERY HEART OF THE FLOWING-PROCESSING ITSELF. TO\nCLARIFY THIS POINT, THIS PAPER INVESTIGATES THE TWO-FOLD\nDESCRIPTION OF INNER TIME-CONSCIOUSNESS THAT GIVES THE\nPRIMARY SPATIAL MODEL OF FLOW--IN FACT, OF TWO INTERSECTING\nFLOWS. NEXT, IT CONSIDERS THE MANNER IN WHICH ASPECTS OF\nIMMANENT TEMPORALITY ARE OVERLOOKED IN THIS SPATIAL MODEL.\nFINALLY, ANOTHER SPATIAL MODEL IS PROPOSED, ONE THAT CAN\nHARNESS THE COMPLEXITY OF HUSSERL'S THEORY OF IMMANENT\nTEMPORALITY AND EXPLAIN THE VERY SOURCE OF PROCESS AS\nPROCESSING.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)373
JournalPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research
Volume49
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1989

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