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| Experience: a) reflected perception, which can be compared with prior perceptions and can be processed linguistically. See also events, perception, sensations, empiricism. b) an event that is processed in the consciousness of a subject. No mere imagination. See also events, imagination, consciousness._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Edmund Husserl on Experience - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 71 Experience/"Erlebnis"/Husserl/Gadamer: Life is productivity par excellence for Dilthey. As life objectifies itself in sense formations, all understanding of meaning is "a retranslation of the objectivations of life into the spiritual vitality from which they have emerged". Thus the concept of experience forms the epistemological basis for all knowledge of the objective. Husserl/Gadamer: Similarly universal is the epistemological function which is part of the term of the experience in Husserl's phenomenology. In the 5th logical Gadamer I 72 investigation (second chapter), the phenomenological concept of experience is explicitly distinguished from the popular one. The unit of experience is not understood as a part of the real stream of experience of an "I", but as an intentional relationship. The sensory unit is also here a teleological one. There are only experiences as long as something is experienced and meant in them. Husserl also acknowledges non-intentional experiences but these enter into the sense unit of intentional experiences as material moments. In this respect, Husserl uses the concept of experience as a comprehensive title for all acts of consciousness whose essential constitution is intentionality.(1) >Experience/Natorp. Gadamer I 249 Experience/Husserl/Gadamer: (...) the detail of the experience - as much as it retains its methodological significance as an intentional correlate of a constituted meaning - [is] not a final phenomenological date (...). Every such intentional experience rather always implies a two-sided empty horizon of such an experience that is not actually meant in it, but to which a current mine can be directed at any time, and in the end it is evident that the unity of the stream of experience encompasses the whole of all such thematizable experiences. Gadamer I 250 Therefore the constitution underlies the temporality of consciousness of all constitutional problems. The stream of experience has the character of a universal horizon consciousness, from which only details are really given - as experiences. >Horizon/Husserl, >Stream of Consciousness/Husserl. Gadamer I 353 Experience/Husserl/Gadamer: [Husserl] has undertaken to elucidate the one-sidedness of the idealization of experience that is present in the sciences in always newly beginning investigations(2). [He] provides in this intention a genealogy of experience, which as experience of the life-world is still ahead of the idealization by the sciences. GadamerVsHusserl: However, it seems to me that he himself is still dominated by the one-sidedness that he criticizes. For he still projects the idealized world of exact scientific experience into the original experience of the world to the extent that he lets perception as an external, purely physical experience be the foundation for all further experience. Husserl: "Even if this sensual presence immediately attracts our practical or emotional interest, even if it is immediately present for us as something useful, attractive or repulsive - but all of this is based precisely on the fact that it is a substrate with simply sensual qualities that can be grasped by the senses, to which a path of possible interpretation leads at any time"(3). GadamerVsHusserl: Husserl's attempt to go back to the origin of experience in terms of sense and genetics and to overcome the idealization through science obviously has to struggle to a special degree with the difficulty that the pure transcendental subjectivity of the ego is not really given as such, but always in the idealization of language, which is already inherent in all acquisition of experience and in which the affiliation of the individual ego to a language community has an effect. 1. Cf. E. Husserl, Logische Untersuchungen II, 365 Note.; Ideen zu einer reinen Phänomenologie und phänomenologischen Philosophie, I, 65. 2. Cf. for instance the representation in „Erfahrung und Urteil“, p. 42, and in the work on the „Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phänomenologie“ p. 48ff.; 130ff. — (GadamerVsHusserl: It is a very different concept of foundation that is used here. Phenomenologically, perception seems to me to be a mere construction that corresponds to the derived concept of existence - and thus appears as a residual position of its scientific-theoretical idealization.) 3. Husserliana VI._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
E. Husserl I Peter Prechtl, Husserl zur Einführung, Hamburg 1991 II "Husserl" in: Eva Picardi et al., Interpretationen - Hauptwerke der Philosophie: 20. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart 1992 Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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