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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.

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Author:   Edmund Husserl ,  R. Rojcewicz
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998
Volume:   7
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.661kg
ISBN:  

9789048149131

ISBN 10:   9048149134
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Thing and Space. Lectures of 1907.- Section I The Foundations of a Phenomenological Theory of Perception.- 1. Fundamental Determinations of Outer Perception.- 2. The Methodological Possibility of the Analysis of Perception.- Section II Analysis of Unchanged Outer Perception.- 3. The Elements of Perceptual Correlation.- 4. The Constitution of the Temporal and Spatial Extension of the Appearance.- Section III Analysis of the Kinetic Synthesis of Perception. Changes in Perception and Changes in Appearance.- 5. The Givenness of the Thing at Rest in Continuous Courses of Perception.- 6. The Possibility and Sense of an Adequate Perception of Spatial Things.- 7. Recapitulation. the Analyses of Perception in The Framework of the Phenomenological Reduction.- Section IV The Significance of the Kinaesthetic Systems for the Constitution of the Perceived Object.- 8. The Phenomenological Concept of Kinaesthesis.- 9. The Correlation Between the Visual Field and the Kinaesthetic Sequences.- 10. The Thing as Unity in the Kinaesthetically Motivated Manifold of Appearances.- Section V The Transition from the Oculomotor Field TO Objective Space. the Constitution of Three-Dimensional, Spatial Corporeality.- 11. Amplifications of the Oculomotor field.- 12. The Typicality of the Modifications of Appearances in the Oculomotor Field.- 13. The Constitution of Space Through the Conversion of the Oculomotor Field Into an Expansional and Turning Manifold.- 14. Supplementary Considerations.- Section VI The Constitution of Objective Change.- 15. Qualitative Changes of the Perceptual Object.- 16. The Constitution of Mere Movement.- Final Consideration.- Supplementary Texts.- A. Essays.- I. Systematic Constitution of Space. Husserl’s Draft.- A. Sense-fields and kinaesthetic systems.- B. Levels of theconstitution of space.- II. Systematic Constitution of Space. Edith Stein’s Elaboration.- §1. Necessity of a location for each body.- §2. Sense-fields and kinaesthetic field.- §3. The significance of the various kinaesthetic systems for the constitution of space.- §4. Significance of kinaesthetic sequences for the constitution of Objective rest and movement.- §4a. I am moved; my body.- §5. Null-orientation of the kinaesthetic systems.- §6. Basic distinction within the kinaesthetic systems and within the constitution of space. Closed visual space and infinite Objective space.- §7. Further distinctions in the kinaesthetic systems and in the constitutive levels.- §8. The pre-eminence of the null-position. The optimum of the visual field.- §9. Interrelations among the kinaesthetic systems in question.- B. Appendices.- Appendix I: Husserl’s Critical Remarks on the Course of Thought and the Progression of the Lectures, Compiled by the Editor.- Appendix II (to §1): On the Doctrine of the Levels of Givenness of Things.- Appendix III (to §§20FF.); The Special Position of the Spatial Feature (Determination of Space).- Appendix IV (to §§49FF.): The Kinaesthetic Systems of Monocularity and Binocularity.- Appendix V (to §54): Strata in the Constitution of the Thing.- Appendix VI (to §54): Motivational Nexuses and Apperception.- Appendix VII (to §76): Empty Space.- Appendix VIII (to §78): Problem of the Quality That Fills Space.- Appendix IX (to §§82F.): On the Constitution of Movement and Rest.- Appendix X (to §83): Subjective Self-Movement AND Objective Corporeal Movement.- Appendix XI (to §83): Visual Space and Objective Space.- Appendix XII (to Essay I): On the Constitution of Riemannian Things.- Appendix XIII (to Essay II, §4A): Active and PassiveLocomotion.

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