From Affectivity to Subjectivity: Husserl’s Phenomenology Revisited

Cover......Page 2
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction: Meditating on Husserl\'s Phenomenology......Page 13
§1.1 The imaginative and anthropological motive......Page 20
Natural ways to the reduction?......Page 22
A proposal to broaden the debate......Page 24
Phantasy, reflection, eidetics......Page 25
Thinking as playing......Page 32
§1.2 The hermeneutical motive......Page 36
Derrida\'s intervention......Page 37
\"Pure I\" and the totality of the \"monad\"......Page 39
Ricoeur\'s extension......Page 44
Totality and understanding......Page 45
From static to genetic analysis......Page 49
Genetic analysis and the event of the incomprehensible......Page 51
§2.1 Affecting oneself......Page 52
Affection and the body......Page 55
Proto-ethical nature of affection......Page 60
Higher forms of affection......Page 68
§2.2 Affection and tenderness......Page 72
Sensation and affection......Page 75
Gehlen: Bodily communication......Page 80
Longing......Page 83
Levinas\'s extension......Page 85
§2.3 Affection and longing......Page 89
Remarks on Husserl and Fichte......Page 90
Fichte\'s extension......Page 94
Sensing......Page 97
§2.4 Affecting the other......Page 101
Husserl\'s theory of intersubjectivity......Page 104
Kinaesthetic affectivity......Page 109
Non-delayed imitation as joining in......Page 113
Mirroring......Page 115
Mirroring and imitation......Page 117
§3.1 Subjective life......Page 121
Presentification, phantasy, memory......Page 122
Theoretical unavailability......Page 130
Practical availability......Page 140
§3.2 Conclusion: Husserl\'s phenomenology revisited......Page 144
Notes......Page 148
Bibliography......Page 171
Index of Concepts......Page 180