Overview
- The vast and fast growing secondary literature on Husserl in English has tended to overlook the problem of passivity
- Claims that passivity makes it such that the sphere of ownness is always already alterated or infiltrated by alienness
- Makes the controversial claim that Husserl’s apparent ethical voluntarism conceals his more nuanced account of ethical life which, instead of conflating passivity with inertia, servitude or impotence, conceives of it as responsitivity to a plurality of values
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 60)
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About this book
Building upon Husserl’s challenge to oppositions such as those between form and content and between constituting and constituted, The Concept of Passivity in Husserl’s Phenomenology construes activity and passivity not as reciprocally exclusive terms but as mutually dependent moments of acts of consciousness. The book outlines the contribution of passivity to the constitution of phenomena as diverse as temporal syntheses, perceptual associations, memory fulfillment and cross-cultural communication. The detailed study of the phenomena of affection, forgetting, habitus and translation sets out a distinction between three meanings of passivity: receptivity, sedimentation or inactuality and alienation. Husserl’s texts are interpreted as defending the idea that cultural crises are not brought to a close by replacing passivity with activity but by having more of both.
Authors and Affiliations
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Victor Biceaga is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Nipissing University, North Bay, Canada
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Concept of Passivity in Husserl's Phenomenology
Authors: Victor Biceaga
Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3915-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3914-9Published: 19 June 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3248-3Published: 05 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3915-6Published: 16 June 2010
Series ISSN: 0923-9545
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 220
Topics: Phenomenology, Aesthetics, Philosophy, general, Metaphysics