Publisher Page. Table of Contents. The book traces a philosophical genealogy seen seldom, if ever, in Anglophone scholarship. In this sense, the book complements its philosophical finesse with accurate historical work and sometimes daring philological speculation.
On Husserlian Legacies will be of interest to phenomenologists working on Husserl, as well as those whose scholarship concerns any or all three French philosophers. The assumption is that. At the same time, this theoretical disagreement does not make the history of the body analyzed in the book any less relevant or legitimate. The book is divided into three chapters.
The first treats the transition, pioneered by our three thinkers, from epistemology to life as the central theme of phenomenology. This is not simply a historical account, however. As such, phenomenology in France cannot but move away from the Bergsonism that tacitly reigned at that time.
This does not allow a true follower of Husserl to account for the situation of the living , worldly , historical human being during the process of reduction.
For Sartre, phenomenology offers a third way that would evade both subjective idealism and scientific naturalism, and can even prepare the way for a new philosophy of emotion and passivity. This, for Sartre, is the true sense of the reduction: the elimination of the ego as the last psychical remainder that characterizes consciousness as self-positing. After all, if the ego is absolutely self-transcendent, then it is a worldly thing posited along with the rest and, as such, it must be excluded.
