Generative Worlds. New Phenomenological Perspectives on Space and Time accounts for the phenomenological concept of generativity. In doing so, this book brings together several recent phenomenological studies on space and time. Generative studies in phenomenology propose new ways of conceiving space, time, and the relation between them. Edited by Luz Ascarate and Quentin Gailhac, the collection reveals new dimensions to topics such as the generation of life, birth, historicity, intersubjectivity, narrativity, institution, touching, and places, and in some cases, the contributors invert the classical definitions of space and time. These transformative readings are fruitful for the interdisciplinary exchange between philosophy and fields such as cosmology, psychology, and the social sciences. The contributors ask if phenomenology reaches its own concreteness through the study of generation and whether it manages to redefine certain dimensions of space and time which, in other orientations of the Husserlian method, remain too abstract and detached from the constitutive becoming of experience.

Si le concept husserlien de passivite a fascine toute une generation de philosophes (Merleau-Ponty, Landgrebe, Levinas, Henry), il a rarement fait l'objet d'une etude qui adopte la perspective du fondateur de la phenomenologie. Husserl considere que la passivite appartient sans reste a la sphere de la constitution et qu'elle consolide par consequent son transcendantalisme. Loin d'etre un domaine de sens irreductible a la rationalite, elle represente meme le fondement des operations de la pensee categoriale. C'est en son sein que doivent etre cherchees les sources des formes superieures de la logique. Toute passive et preconsciente qu'elle soit, l'experience antepredicative appartient donc pour Husserl au sujet transcendantal. Ce travail s'attache ainsi a montrer que la genese du categorial a partir de l'experience passive entre dans le projet general de Husserl d'asseoir la phenomenologie sur le socle originaire de l'experience du monde.