Ebook: Thing and Space: Lectures of 1907

This is a translation of Husserl's `Thing-lectures' (Dingvorlesung) of 1907, published posthumously in 1973. The lectures deal with the constitution of the thing as a res extensa, an extended spatial structure filled with sensuous qualities and not yet with substantial or causal properties. Key to this phenomenological account is the role of the kinaesthetic systems of the body in the constitution of both three-dimensional space and the thing in its identity, its manifold of possible movements, and its position in relation to the ego.
The `Thing-lectures' form part of the project of a `phenomenology and critique of reason' announced in a general introduction to the same lectures and published separately as The Idea of Phenomenology. There for the first time the idea of a transcendental phenomenology based on the principle of the phenomenological reduction was laid out. The lectures presented here thus form a striking example of the application of this idea to a concrete and fundamental field of research.

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This is a translation of Husserl's `Thing-lectures' (Dingvorlesung) of 1907, published posthumously in 1973. The lectures deal with the constitution of the thing as a res extensa, an extended spatial structure filled with sensuous qualities and not yet with substantial or causal properties. Key to this phenomenological account is the role of the kinaesthetic systems of the body in the constitution of both three-dimensional space and the thing in its identity, its manifold of possible movements, and its position in relation to the ego.
The `Thing-lectures' form part of the project of a `phenomenology and critique of reason' announced in a general introduction to the same lectures and published separately as The Idea of Phenomenology. There for the first time the idea of a transcendental phenomenology based on the principle of the phenomenological reduction was laid out. The lectures presented here thus form a striking example of the application of this idea to a concrete and fundamental field of research.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Fundamental Determinations of Outer Perception....Pages 7-17
The Methodological Possibility of the Analysis of Perception....Pages 19-34
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
The Elements of Perceptual Correlation....Pages 37-50
The Constitution of the Temporal and Spatial Extension of the Appearance....Pages 51-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
The Givenness of the Thing at Rest in Continuous Courses of Perception....Pages 73-88
The Possibility and Sense of an Adequate Perception of Spatial Things....Pages 89-115
Recapitulation. The Analyses of Perception in the Framework of the Phenomenological Reduction....Pages 117-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
The Phenomenological Concept of Kinaesthesis....Pages 131-138
The Correlation between the Visual Held and the Kinaesthetic Sequences....Pages 139-156
The Thing as Unity in the Kinaesthetically Motivated Manifold of Appearances....Pages 157-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Amplifications of the Oculomotor Field....Pages 173-189
The Typicality of the Modifications of Appearances in the Oculomotor Field....Pages 191-205
The Constitution of Space through the Conversion of the Oculomotor Held into an Expansional and Turning Manifold....Pages 207-217
Supplementary Considerations....Pages 219-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Qualitative Changes of the Perceptual Object....Pages 227-234
The Constitution of Mere Movement....Pages 235-245
Final Consideration....Pages 247-253
Back Matter....Pages 255-349

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This is a translation of Husserl's `Thing-lectures' (Dingvorlesung) of 1907, published posthumously in 1973. The lectures deal with the constitution of the thing as a res extensa, an extended spatial structure filled with sensuous qualities and not yet with substantial or causal properties. Key to this phenomenological account is the role of the kinaesthetic systems of the body in the constitution of both three-dimensional space and the thing in its identity, its manifold of possible movements, and its position in relation to the ego.
The `Thing-lectures' form part of the project of a `phenomenology and critique of reason' announced in a general introduction to the same lectures and published separately as The Idea of Phenomenology. There for the first time the idea of a transcendental phenomenology based on the principle of the phenomenological reduction was laid out. The lectures presented here thus form a striking example of the application of this idea to a concrete and fundamental field of research.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Fundamental Determinations of Outer Perception....Pages 7-17
The Methodological Possibility of the Analysis of Perception....Pages 19-34
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
The Elements of Perceptual Correlation....Pages 37-50
The Constitution of the Temporal and Spatial Extension of the Appearance....Pages 51-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
The Givenness of the Thing at Rest in Continuous Courses of Perception....Pages 73-88
The Possibility and Sense of an Adequate Perception of Spatial Things....Pages 89-115
Recapitulation. The Analyses of Perception in the Framework of the Phenomenological Reduction....Pages 117-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
The Phenomenological Concept of Kinaesthesis....Pages 131-138
The Correlation between the Visual Held and the Kinaesthetic Sequences....Pages 139-156
The Thing as Unity in the Kinaesthetically Motivated Manifold of Appearances....Pages 157-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Amplifications of the Oculomotor Field....Pages 173-189
The Typicality of the Modifications of Appearances in the Oculomotor Field....Pages 191-205
The Constitution of Space through the Conversion of the Oculomotor Held into an Expansional and Turning Manifold....Pages 207-217
Supplementary Considerations....Pages 219-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Qualitative Changes of the Perceptual Object....Pages 227-234
The Constitution of Mere Movement....Pages 235-245
Final Consideration....Pages 247-253
Back Matter....Pages 255-349
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