Toward a phenomenology of difference?

Research in Phenomenology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 54-70

  De Beistegui, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 66149176615     PISSN: 00855553     EISSN: 15691640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156916400746605     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Aristotle, Metaphysics, 4.2.1003a33.
2. E. Husserl, Ideen zur einer reinen Phänomenologie und phänomenologischen Philosophie, Book 1: Allgemeine Einführung in die reine Phänomenobgie (1913), ed. Karl Schuhmann (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976),
3. translated by F. Kersten under the title Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, Book 1: General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1982). Henceforth cited as Ideas I, followed by German and English pagination.
4. E. Husserl, Ideen zur einer reinen Phänomenologie und phänomenologische Philosophie, Book 3: Die Phänomenologie und die Fundamente der Wissenschaften, ed. Marly Biemel (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1953), 77;
5. translated by Ted. E. Klein and William E. Pohl under the title Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, Book 3: Phenomenology and the Foundation of the Sciences (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1980), 66. Henceforth cited as Ideas III, followed by German and English pagination.
6. See Ideas I, §2.
7. For a sustained discussion of the two senses or aspects of imagination as phantasy (Phantasie) and image-consciousness (Bildbewußtsein), see E. Husserl, Phantasie, Bidlbewußtsein, Erinnerung: Zur Phänomenologie der anschaulichen Vergegenwärtigungen. Texte aus dem Nachlaß (1898-1925). ed. E. Marbach (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1980).
8. See also the discussion in Maria Manuela Saraiva, L'ima-gination selon Husserl (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1970)
9. and John Sallis, "Spacing Imagination" and "Intentionality and Imagination," both in Double Truth (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).
10. Kant, Kritik der reinen Vernunft, ed. Raymund Schmidt (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1956), A 598, B 626.
11. E. Husserl, Erfahrung und Urteil, ed. Ludwig Landgrebe (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 6th, expanded ed. 1985), 410,
12. translated by James S. Churchill and Karl Ameriks under the title Experience and Judgment (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973), 340. Henceforth cited as EU, followed by German and English pagination.
13. Aristotle, Categories, 5.3aff.
14. See also, and perhaps above all, Porphyrio's introduction to the Categories in his Isagoge in Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca, IV, 1, ed. by A. Busse (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1887),
15. and the henceforth canonical place ascribed to difference therein as, in Boethius' translation, "differentia specjfica" (See Isagoge, Translatio Boethii, ed. by L. Minio Paluello and B. G. Dod, Aristoteles Latinus I, 6-7 [Bruges/Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1966]).
16. I subscribe here to the analyses developed by J. Derrida in his La voix et le phénomène (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1967), and particularly to his description of the paradigmatic form of consciousness, as revealed in the Introduction. Yet I shall also wonder if the extent to which Husserl's later interpretation of the unity of the transcendental ego as temporal flow does not seriously undermine the possibility of holding onto a concept of consciousness as self-identical, self-present, and permanent.
17. See, for example, M. Heidegger, Beiträge zur Philosophie, GA 65 (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989),
18. G. Deleuze, Difference et répétition (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968), 301.
19. This type of work, initiated to a large extent by Gilbert Simondon in his seminal L'individu et sa genèse physico-biologique (Grenoble: Jérôme Millon, 1995),
20. originally published in 1964, has been taken up by various strands of contemporary French philosophy, both within phenomenology (see M. Richir, Phénomènes, temps et êtres [Grenoble: Millon, 1987],
21. Phénoménologie et institution symbolique [Grenoble: Millon, 1988],
22. La crise du sens et la phénoménologie [Grenoble: Millon, 1990]
23. and J. Garelli Rythmes et mondes [Grenoble: Millon, 1991])
24. and outside (see Deleuze, Différence et répétition, chaps. 4 and 5).
25. M. Heidegger, Sein und Zeit (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1927), 34.
26. "Phenomenologists do not refer to theses formally enunciated by Husserl; they do not devote themselves entirely to the exegesis of his texts . . . Rather than adhere to a certain number of fixed propositions, they agree to approach problems in a certain way" (E. Levinas, En découvrant l'existence avec Husserl et Heidegger [Paris: Vrin, 1988], 111).
27. See, for example, the beautifully named Heretical Essays (Prague: Petlice, 1975) by Patocka, perhaps the most unfaithfully faithful of all phenomenologist.