Varieties of Self-Awareness: New Perspectives from Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Comparative Philosophy (Contributions to Phenomenology, 121)

Editor’s Introduction
Contents
Part I: Possible, Impossible, and Fictional Self-Awareness
	Chapter 1: Husserlian Shadows in Plato’s Cave: Layers of Contingency and Fictional Variations on Self-Awareness
		A First Disclaimer: Plato’s Cave
		A Second Disclaimer: Phenomenological Self-Awareness
		A Third Disclaimer: Phenomenology and Poetical Fiction
		Republic VII (514b–517c): A Brief Reminder and a Neglected Detail
		A Twofold Challenge: Plato’s Poetical Fiction and Husserl’s Varieties of Self-Awareness
		Variation, Self, and Self-Awareness
		Martians, Giants, and Savvy Horses
		Conscious Prisoners
		Habitual Prisoners
		Human Prisoners
		Ghostly Prisoners, or: Are Plato’s Prisoners Real Humans After All?
		Ghostly Human Prisoners
		Shadow Self-Awareness for Ghostly Human Prisoners
		References
	Chapter 2: Ghosts of Ourselves: Self-Responsibility in Georg Simmel’s The View of Life
		Achsendrehung des Lebens
		Todesverflochtenheit des Lebens
		More Than Life
		Absolute Self-Responsibility
		References
	Chapter 3: Daydreaming and Self-Awareness
		Why Should Daydreams Be Interesting for Phenomenologists?
		What Is Daydreaming?
		Daydreaming and Self-Awareness
		Daydreaming, Self-Awareness, and Ichspaltung
		The Constitutive Function of Daydreaming
		Conclusion
		References
Part II: Embodied Self-Awareness: Incorporation, Kinesthesis, and Sexuality
	Chapter 4: Varieties of Incorporation: Beyond the Blind Man’s Cane
		Introduction
		Body-Schema Incorporation
		Body-Image Incorporation
		Seen-Body Incorporation
		Relations
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 5: Kinesthesis and Self-Awareness
		Introduction
		Husserl’s Concept of Kinesthesis in Ding und Raum
		Husserl’s Concept of Kinesthesis in Ideas II
		Husserl’s Trouble with the Concept of Kinesthesis in 1932
		Summary in Phenomenological Notation
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 6: The Pre-reflective Dimension of Self-Awareness and the Bipolar Structure of Existence: Merleau-Ponty’s Way from Body Schema to Sexual Schema
		Introduction
		Phenomenology’s Existential Turn and the Question of Intentionality
		From Intentionality of Act to Operative Intentionality
		Pathological Behavior as Behavior of Pre-reflective Life
		First Illustration of the Ambiguity of Existence by the Body Schema: Distinction Between Concrete Movement as Mode of Actuality and Abstract Movement as Mode of Possibility
		Further Illustration of the Ambiguity of Existence by the Sexual Schema and Sexual Intentionality
		Sexual Schema
		Sexual Intentionality and Sexual Self-Awareness
		Sexuality as Existence
		Sexuality and the Metaphysical Structure of Human Existence: The Dialectic of Autonomy and Dependence
		Sexuality as Ambiguous Atmosphere: Existence as the Non-bypassable Movement of Transcendence on the Basis of Facticity
		Conclusion
		References
Part III: Historical, Social, and Environmental Self-Awareness
	Chapter 7: Historical Self-Awareness
		Narrative
		Intersubjectivity and We-Intentionality
		Self-Awareness as Membership Awareness
		Historical Temporality
		Historical Self-Awareness
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: Individuation and Self-Awareness in Wilhelm Dilthey
		Introduction: Individuality and Self-Awareness
		Historical Life and Relational Individuality
		Dilthey’s Philosophy of Relational Individuality and Its Background
		Individuation and Becoming a Self: A Sketch
		Models of Subjectivity and Self-Awareness
		The Hermeneutics and Politics of Relational Individualism
		The Structural Formation of the Self and Self-Awareness
		Reflexive Self-Awareness and its Historicity
		Conclusion: Self-Reflective Life and the Critical Vocation of Philosophy
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9: Ecological Self-Awareness in the Anthropocene
		Introduction
		From Modernity to the Anthropocene
		De-centering the Human
		Nature’s Vulnerability and Human Responsibility
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part IV: Comparative Philosophy of Self-Awareness
	Chapter 10: Self-Awareness in Nishida as Auto-Realization qua Determination of the Indeterminate
		Introduction
		Pure Experience
		Intuition, Reflection, Volition
		Place
		The System of Universals
		The Determination of the Nothing
		The Other
		The Historical World and the Dialectical Universal
		The Religious Awareness of God or the Absolute
		The Incompleteness of the Infinite: The Absolute as Indeterminate
		Bibliography
	Chapter 11: How to Become Conscious of Consciousness: A Mediation-Focused Approach
		Introduction
		What Does It Mean to Think About Consciousness?
		What Makes Us Conscious of Consciousness?
		The Concept of Consciousness Is Mediated by the Negation of Consciousness
		Mediation by Refection
		The Fundamental Circularity Between Direct Consciousness and Reflection
		Forgotten Mediations and the Substantialization of Consciousness
		From Being to Mediation: The Methodological Implications of the Mediation-Focused Approach
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 12: Beyond Self-Representationalism: A Neo-Dignāgian Theory of Consciousness
		The Self-Representational Theory of Consciousness
		How Is Inner Awareness Possible?
		The Accumulation of Aspects
		Is Inner Awareness Itself Conscious?
		Objections and Replies
		Conclusion
		References
Index