This book offers a fresh look at Edmund Husserl's philosophy as
a nonfoundational approach to understanding the self as an embodied
presence.
Contrary to the conventional view of Husserl as carrying on the
Cartesian tradition of seeking a trustworthy foundation for
knowledge in the "pure" observations of a disembodied ego, James
Mensch introduces us to the Husserl who, anticipating the later
investigations of Merleau-Ponty, explored how the body functions to
determine our self-presence, our freedom, and our sense of time.
The result is a concept of selfhood that allows us to see how
consciousness's arising from sensuous experiences follows from the
temporal features of embodiment.
From this understanding of what is crucial to Husserl's
phenomenology, the book draws the implications for language and
ethics, comparing Husserl's ideas with those of Derrida on language
and with those of Heidegger and Levinas on responsibility.
Paradoxically, it is these postmodernists who are shown to be
extending the logic of foundationalism to its ultimate extreme,
whereas Husserl can be seen as leading the way beyond modernity to
a nonfoundational account of the self and its world.
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