Home and Beyond
Generative Phenomenology After Husserl

Anthony J. Steinbock (Author)

9780810113206

Paperback / softback, published 20 December 1995

368 pages
22.7 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.498 kg

At a time in which many philosophers have concluded that Husserl's philosophy is exhausted, but when the alternatives to Husserl appear to be exhausted as well, this work aims to presents an innovative approach to Husserlian phenomenology. The author implicitly attacks the most fundamental criticism aimed at Husserl: that his philosophy is intrinsically formalistic, unable in principle to deal with concrete matters of life and how to live it. This study of the problems and themes of a generative phenomenology, normality and abnormality, and the sociohistorical concepts of homeworld and generative phenomenology, opens doors for a philosophy of the social world while casting new light on work done by Husserl himself.

Part 1 From consciousness to world Division I - First philosophy - the problem of ego and alter ego
""progressive"" procedure and the turn towards immanence
the absolute as facticity and the necessity of genetic analysis
the ""other"" as the theme of first philosophy
taking the fifth Division II - transcendental philosophy and the problem of world
regressive procedure
the lifeworld problematic
transcendental concepts of the lifeworld. Part 2 Normality, abnormality, and normative territories - towards a generative phenomenology: Division III - a genetic phenomenology of normality and abnormality
concordant and discordance
the normal as the optimal and optimalizing comportment
normalization and terrain
Division IV - generativity as the matter of generative phenomenology
introduction to the problematic of homeworld/alienworld
liminal experience as appropriation - making ourselves at home
liminal experience as appropriation - home economics
liminal experience as transgression
conclusion - generative phenomenology.