Overview
- Extensively analyzes Husserl’s conception of protention in its systematic relation to various dimensions of experiential life
- Develops the distinction between the formal and the material accounts of protention
- Explores the various ways that protention and affection are intertwined at the lowest levels of consciousness
Part of the book series: Phaenomenologica (PHAE, volume 230)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Phenomenology of Time-Consciousness
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Front Matter
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Phenomenological Analysis of Retentional Consciousness
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Front Matter
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Phenomenological Analysis of Protentional Consciousness
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Back Matter
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About this book
Every attempt to examine our consciousness’s passive life and its dynamic in its various forms inevitably intersects with our primal awareness of the future. Even though Husserl’s theory of time-consciousness enjoys a certain fame, his conception of our primordial relation to the future has not been adequately accounted for.
The book at hand aims to offer a close study of Husserl’s view of protentional consciousness and to trace its unique contribution to our overall awareness of time. It offers an extensive analysis of various aspects of protention by investigating its connection to different fields and levels of experience. To achieve such a task, the book stresses the need to enrich the familiar formal account of protention with a material one. Thus, alongside issues pertaining exclusively to the form of protention, such as its relation to fulfillment as well as its double-intentional structure, various other dimensions are discussed, such as the phenomena of disappointment and correction as well as the role hyle plays in both of them. In the same vein, special attention is given to the relation between protentional consciousness and affectivity, thus shedding light on the dynamic unity of our living-present.
What this study purports to show is that Husserl’s phenomenology is equipped to offer a solid account of the thinnest and subtlest ways in which we are aware of the future in our experiential life.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Nikos Soueltzis completed his PhD in philosophy at the University of Patras, Greece, in 2017. While he was working on his PhD, he visited the Husserl Archives at the University of Cologne as guest researcher. As a PhD student, he participated in a research project on “Habit and Skill” financed by the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology. In 2017 he was awarded the Directors’ Memorial Prize offered by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology (CARP) at the 48thHusserl Circle Annual Meeting. He has served as adjunct lecturer at the University of Patras and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has translated in Greek Husserl’s Vorlesungen zur Phänomenologie des inneren Zeitbewusstseins (Crete University Press, forthcoming) and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Crete working on his personal project: “Time and Body. The experience of bodily temporality as the basis of body’s physicality:a phenomenological analysis,” financed by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY). His main research interests include: phenomenology of time-consciousness and memory, phenomenology of bodily awareness, phenomenology of self-awareness. He currently explores the broad region of phenomena that fall under the rubric of “bodily temporality.”
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Protention in Husserl’s Phenomenology
Authors: Nikos Soueltzis
Series Title: Phaenomenologica
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69521-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69520-0Published: 10 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69523-1Published: 11 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69521-7Published: 09 June 2021
Series ISSN: 0079-1350
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0331
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 202
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Phenomenology, Continental Philosophy