Friday, December 8, 2017

Husserl and Intersubjectivity

"For Husserl, intersubjectivity is not some relation, within the world, that is to be observed from the outside; it is not something transcendent to consciousness, or some sort of system or structure in which consciousness would be found... The very opposite is the case: intersubjectivity is a relation between me and the other or others, and correspondingly, its treatment and analysis must necessarily take the I's relation to others as its point of departure."

Dan Zahavi, Husserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity, trans. Elizabeth A. Behnke (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2001) p. 79.

"intersubjectivity has to be understood transcendentally in terms of the ego having its other, its 'you', its 'we'. There can be no 'you' or 'we' except from the standpoint of an ego, and this gives the ego a certain primacy... There is an egoic core to the self which is essential to it at a level prior to intersubjective engagement."

Dermot Moran, Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 253-254.

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