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“The Ego beside Itself”

On Birth, Sleep, and Death from Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View to Husserl’s Late Manuscripts on Time-Constitution
  • Vincent Gérard
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Husserl, Kant and Transcendental Phenomenology
This chapter is in the book Husserl, Kant and Transcendental Phenomenology

Abstract

We know that Husserl had knowledge of the Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, which he had at least partly read in Hartenstein’s edition of Kant’s Sämtliche Werke. In the section called “On the inhibition, weakening, and total loss of the sense faculties,” Kant poses the problem of death in terms comparable to those of Husserl. Here, I argue that in his analysis of sleep, birth, and death in the so-called C-Manuscripts, Husserl makes a transcendental use of Kant’s non-transcendental anthropology. If we can say, along with Saulius Geniusas, that the C-manuscripts “mark the emergence of the problematic of birth, death, and sleep into the critical scope of Husserl’s phenomenology of time,” then we need to add that the analysis of the sense faculties in the Anthropological Didactic marks its period of gestation.

Abstract

We know that Husserl had knowledge of the Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, which he had at least partly read in Hartenstein’s edition of Kant’s Sämtliche Werke. In the section called “On the inhibition, weakening, and total loss of the sense faculties,” Kant poses the problem of death in terms comparable to those of Husserl. Here, I argue that in his analysis of sleep, birth, and death in the so-called C-Manuscripts, Husserl makes a transcendental use of Kant’s non-transcendental anthropology. If we can say, along with Saulius Geniusas, that the C-manuscripts “mark the emergence of the problematic of birth, death, and sleep into the critical scope of Husserl’s phenomenology of time,” then we need to add that the analysis of the sense faculties in the Anthropological Didactic marks its period of gestation.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Table of Contents v
  3. Husserl, Kant, and Transcendental Phenomenology 1
  4. Section I: The Transcendantal and the A priori
  5. The Meaning of the Transcendental in the Philosophies of Kant and Husserl 23
  6. The Ethics of the Transcendental 41
  7. The Phenomenological a priori as Husserlian Solution to the Problem of Kant’s “Transcendental Psychologism” 57
  8. On the Naturalization of the Transcendental 83
  9. Kant, Husserl, and the Aim of a “Transcendental Anthropology” 101
  10. Section II: The Ego and the Sphere of Otherness
  11. Transcendental Apperception and Temporalization 127
  12. “The Ego beside Itself” 143
  13. Kant and Husserl on Overcoming Skeptical Idealism through Transcendental Idealism 163
  14. “Pure Ego and Nothing More” 189
  15. Towards a Phenomenological Metaphysics 213
  16. The Transcendental Grounding of the Experience of the Other (Fremderfahrung) in Husserl’s Phenomenology 235
  17. Section III: Aesthetic, Logic, Science, Ethics
  18. Aesthetic, Intuition, Experience 259
  19. Synthesis and Identity 279
  20. Questions of Genesis as Questions of Validity 303
  21. Philosophical Scientists and Scientific Philosophers 333
  22. A Phenomenological Critique of Kantian Ethics 359
  23. Section IV: Transcendental Philosophy in Debate
  24. Is There a “Copernican” or an “Anti-Copernican” Revolution in Phenomenology? 391
  25. Back to Fichte? 411
  26. “An Explosive Thought:” Kant, Fink, and the Cosmic Concept of the World 439
  27. Eugen Fink’s Transcendental Phenomenology of the World 455
  28. Amphibian Dreams 479
  29. Husserlian Phenomenology in the Light of Microphenomenology 505
  30. Index of Persons 523
  31. Subject Index 527
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110564280-008

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Table of Contents v
  3. Husserl, Kant, and Transcendental Phenomenology 1
  4. Section I: The Transcendantal and the A priori
  5. The Meaning of the Transcendental in the Philosophies of Kant and Husserl 23
  6. The Ethics of the Transcendental 41
  7. The Phenomenological a priori as Husserlian Solution to the Problem of Kant’s “Transcendental Psychologism” 57
  8. On the Naturalization of the Transcendental 83
  9. Kant, Husserl, and the Aim of a “Transcendental Anthropology” 101
  10. Section II: The Ego and the Sphere of Otherness
  11. Transcendental Apperception and Temporalization 127
  12. “The Ego beside Itself” 143
  13. Kant and Husserl on Overcoming Skeptical Idealism through Transcendental Idealism 163
  14. “Pure Ego and Nothing More” 189
  15. Towards a Phenomenological Metaphysics 213
  16. The Transcendental Grounding of the Experience of the Other (Fremderfahrung) in Husserl’s Phenomenology 235
  17. Section III: Aesthetic, Logic, Science, Ethics
  18. Aesthetic, Intuition, Experience 259
  19. Synthesis and Identity 279
  20. Questions of Genesis as Questions of Validity 303
  21. Philosophical Scientists and Scientific Philosophers 333
  22. A Phenomenological Critique of Kantian Ethics 359
  23. Section IV: Transcendental Philosophy in Debate
  24. Is There a “Copernican” or an “Anti-Copernican” Revolution in Phenomenology? 391
  25. Back to Fichte? 411
  26. “An Explosive Thought:” Kant, Fink, and the Cosmic Concept of the World 439
  27. Eugen Fink’s Transcendental Phenomenology of the World 455
  28. Amphibian Dreams 479
  29. Husserlian Phenomenology in the Light of Microphenomenology 505
  30. Index of Persons 523
  31. Subject Index 527
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