On Identity: A Study in Genetic Phenomenologyof A first attempt to formulate the phenomenological problem identity was originally made in my doctoral dissertation, "The Identity of the Logical Proposition," (Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, 1969). Further development of the problem, both direct and indirect, as well as extensive revision, has found expression in "The Foundation of Predicative Experience and the Spontaneity of Consciousness" (Life-World and Consciousness. Essays for Aron Gurwitsch, 1972), "Gurwitsch's Concept of Per ceptual Unity as the Basic Form of Rational Consciousness," (Social Research, April, 1975), and "The Refinement of the Concept of Constitution" (Research in Phenomenology, Vol. IV, 1974). These studies, in turn, formed the springboard for the present study of the problem of identity. No more than the other studies, this study far from claiming finality, is rather an ever-widening beginning of a phenomenological inquiry into the constitution of identity. I am enormously indebted to my friend and colleague, Professor Fred Kersten of the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay. No tribute is sufficient to acknowledge his invaluable assistance and counsel in the preparation of this work for publication. I would also like to thank Professor Werner Marx of the University of Freiburg for his sustaining encouragement in the later phase of this work. INTRODUCTION The purpose of this essay is to investigate the meaning of the concept of identity within a framework of the phenomenological theory of consciousness. |
Contents
From the Judgment to Judgmental Identity | 5 |
On the NonContradictory or Consistent Judgment | 13 |
The Identity of the Judgment | 23 |
Transcendental Identity | 30 |
The Genetic Return to Experience | 37 |
The Horizon and Ground of Experience | 55 |
The Temporal Structure of Identity | 71 |
The Object as Unity of Duration | 80 |
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act of identification activity of consciousness actual ad-infinitum appearing Aron Gurwitsch belief-consciousness belonging categories of signification character characterized clarification concept concerned condition consciousness of identity correlate determinations disclosed distinct judgment double formation Edmund Husserl enduring enological evidence of clarity exhibits Experience and Judgment explicating process explicit Formal and Transcendental Formal Ontology formation of sense foundation founded act fulfillment fundamental genetic given ground Ibid identifying synthesis inquiry intentional intentional object J. N. Findlay judging judgmental identity Logical Investigations normative object of perception objectivating operations original originary passive perceived perceptual consciousness perceptual experience perceptual process pertains phenomenological pre-given pre-predicative precognition predicative judgment predicatively formed present presupposition primordial priori laws productive of identity properties proposition realization reference relation revealed rience sciousness self-givenness sense and meaning signifies specific static analysis substratum temporal horizon thematizing reflection theme things tion Transcendental Logic true judgment ultimate unity of sense words world-horizon