The External World – Whole and Parts: A Husserlian Hermeneutics of the Early Ontology of Hedwig Conrad-Martius

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Abstract

This paper is dedicated to the elucidation of the phenomenal experience of the I that is at the foundation of the realistic phenomenology of Hedwig Conrad-Martius (hereafter: CM) (1888-1966). The discussion focuses on CM's early book On the Ontology and Doctrine of Appearance of the Real External (1916). The author deciphers the modes of the involvement of the “I” in the appearances of the real external world and extricates from CM's analysis of the external world two dispositions of the I: “passive self-inclusiveness” and “active consciousness”. Her argument is that they respond to the two spheres of the objects of the external world. Against the sensible (sinnfällige) object, the “I” is passive and self-including, responding to the phenomenality of objects. However, regarding covert objects, the I is active and directed beyond itself, to the concealed essence that is covered over by the phenomenal layer of things.
Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationThe New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy
EditorsRodney K.B. Parker, Ignacio Quepons
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter16
Pages99-123
Volume16
ISBN (Print)9781138601369
StatePublished - 2018

Publication series

NameThe New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy

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