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- Title
The "Living Present" in its Phases and Profiles: a Phenomenology of Phenomenology Augmented by Stylistics.
- Authors
Blum, Mark E.
- Abstract
My study of how 'a phenomenology of phenomenology' can be conducted, guided by the deliberations into this essential inquiry by Robert Sokolowski and Klaus Held, offers a methodology long known, even as neglected by phenomenologists. The suggested methodology for this greater rigor is attention to not only how one judges, but one's grammatical account-the 'registering of phenomena'-- in judging. Husserl as early as the Logical Investigations and Sokolowski three-quarters of a century later knew that a reflective study of how phenomenological judgments were made must use a methodology that attended the semantics and syntax of phenomenological judgment because the perceptive judgment itself is carried and shaped by lexical aspects that are otherwise not adequately discerned in their noetic causal determinations. Only by attending the sentential flow of grammatical articulation can the phases of a phenomenological finding, as well as the constitutive profiles of those phases, be adequately discerned. Phenomenological judgment is an event in itself as attention, perception, and judgment are a temporal movement of mind. One's ordinary judgment or the phenomenological rigorous judgment is a "lived experience" in that it is formed and impelled by the inner temporality that attention generates as it registers the phases and constitutive profiles of a phenomenon. The paradox of the nunc stans, 'the now at a distance,' is the ego's journey forward in judgment while attempting to chart the mental geography of that journey. Only a stylistics can discern the actual topography traversed in judgment accurately due to the opaqueness of mere perceptual attentiveness. Moreover, stylistic inquiry reveals characteristic styles in the judger. I examine the significance of an aggregative orientation of mind and grammar in contrast to a quantum orientation of mind and grammar in registering the same phenomenon, a constituting difference in phenomenological judgment Immanuel Kant first discerned.
- Publication
Philosophical Frontiers: A Journal of Emerging Thought, 2009, Vol 4, Issue 1, p83
- ISSN
1758-1532
- Publication type
Academic Journal