PHENOMENOLOGY OF PERCEPTION Aalborg Universtetsbibiotek '530000983429-— ANAL029102551 CONTENTS Preface pase vi INTRODUCTION: TRADITIONAL PREJUDICES ‘AND THE RETURN TO PHENOMENA. 1 The Sensation’ asa Unit of Experience 3 2 “Associaton” andthe "Projection of Memories a 3 “Altetion’ and Judgement 6 “4 The Phenomenal Field 2 PART ONE: THE BODY Experience and objetve thought. The problem of the body 67 1 The Body as Object and Mechanistic Pysology 2 2 The Experience ofthe Body and Classical Psychology 90 13 The Sputalty of One's own Body and Motity 38 4 The Syatheis of One's own Boy 8 5 The Body in its Sexual Being 134 6 The Body as Expression, and Speech m4 PART TWO: THE WORLD AS PERCEIVED “The theory of the body i already a theory of perepton 20 1 Sense Experience 207 2 Space 2 3 The Thing andthe Natural World 9 “4 Other Selves and the Human World a6 PART THREE: BEING-FOR-ITSELF AND BEING-IN-THE-WORLD AARON UNWERSITETSCENTER 1 The Cogito ms ‘iverstetbiolkel 2 Temporality aio 3 Freedom 4 Bibliography as Index aPREFACE WHAT is phenomenology? It may seem strange that this question has still tobe asked alfa century after the ist works of Husser. The fact remains that thas by no means been answered. Phenomendlogy is the study of essences; and according toi all problems amount to finding defiitions ofesences: the cessence of perception, orthe essence ‘of consciousness, for example. But phenomenology it also a pio ‘sophy which puts essence back int existence, and doesnot expect to arsive at an understanding of man and the world from any stating point other than that oftheir actiiy. It isa transcendental pil Sophy which places in abeyance the asertions arising out of the natural attitude, the beter to understand them; but itis leo a pilo- Sophy for which the world is alway ‘already there’ before reflection begins—as'an inalienable presence; andallits efforts are concentrated ‘upon reachieving a direct and primitive contact with the world, and endowing that contact with a philosophical status Iti the search for 8 philosophy which shall bea ‘rigorous science’, but it also offers aa Account of space, time and the world as we live them. It tries to give 8 direct description of our experience asi is, without taking aceount of its psychological origin and the causal explanations which the Scientist, the historian or the sociologist may beable to provide. Yet ‘Huser in his last works mentions a “genetic phenomenology’ and ‘even a ‘constructive phenomenology’ One may try to do away with these contradictions by making a distinction between Huser’ and Heidegger's phenomenologies; yet the whole of Seln und Zeit springs from an indication given by Huser! and amounts to no more than an ‘explicit account ofthe ‘natlcher WeltbegrfT” ofthe ‘Lebenswelt which Husser, towards the end of his lif, identified as the central theme of phenomenology, with the result that the contradiction te= appears in Husser!’s own philosophy. The reader pressed for time will be inlined to pve up the idea of covering a doctrine which says everything, and will wonder whether a philosophy which cannot Aefine is scope deserves all the discussion which has gone on around it, and whether he isnot faced rather by a myth or & fashion 1 Méstation cartenner op, 20. 1 Sete opsblahel Si Wedaaton creme, ete by Bagn Pak 0 ido erper as tndy rated =<