Perception, Affectivity, and Volition in Husserls Phenomenology [Paperback]

This collection of essays by scholars from Europe, Asia, North America, and Latin America offers new perspectives of the phenomenological investigation of experiential life on the basis of Husserls phenomenology. Not only well-known works of Husserl are interpreted from new angles, but also the latest volumes of the Husserliana are closely examined. In a variety of ways, the contributors explore the emergence of reason in experience that is disclosed in the very regions that are traditionally considered to be irrational or pre-rational. The leading idea of such explorations is Husserls view that perception, affectivity, and volition are regarded as the three aspects of reason. Without affectivity, which is supposedly irrational, no rationality can be established in the spheres of representation and volition, whereas volitional and representational acts consistently structure the process of affective experience. In such a framework, it is also shown that theoretical and practical reason are inseparably intertwined. Thus, the papers collected here can be regarded as a collaborative phenomenological investigation into the entanglement and mutual dependency of the supposedly rational and the irrational as well as that of the practical and the theoretical. 

Percept, Feeling, Pragma: Some Static and Genetic Connections, Luis Rom?n Rabanaque.- Horizonality and Legitimation in Perception, Affectivity, and Volition, Roberto Walton.- Husserls Holistic Realism about Perception, Michael K. Shim.- How Husserl Can Reformulate the Discussion about the Conceptual Content of Perception, Pol Vandevelde.- The Most Beautiful Pearls: Speculative Thoughts on a Phenomenology of Attention (with Husserl and Goethe), Sebastian Luft.- Toward an A Priori Gef?hlsmoral: Husserl's Criticism of Hume?s Theory of Moral Sentiments, Mariano Crespo.- Affectivity and Individuation in Husserl and Margaret Mahler, Kristina Molók