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Temporality and Historicity: Phenomenology of History Beyond Narratology

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The Many Faces of Time

Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology ((CTPH,volume 41))

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The main purpose of this paper is to clarify the significance which should be attributed to the phenomenology of history in comparison with the contemporary philosophy of history, especially “anti-realistic” narratology. Although the positive contributions of narratology in general, as a dominant position regarding the philosophical discussions about history, are undeniable, it can amount to an “anti-realistic” philosophy that negates the reality of past events. This paper is concerned to show, first, that the anti-realistic claim concerning the reality of the past is based on a false argument which lacks a subtle analysis of narrative, and then to show that the reality of the historical past can be clarified only through the mechanism of our temporal experience as it is analyzed by Edmund Husserl in his Analysen zur passiven Synthesis.1

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  1. Edmund Husserl, Analysen zur passiven Synthesis, ed. M. Fleischer, Husserliana XI (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1966).

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    Shigeto Nuki

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Nuki, S. (2000). Temporality and Historicity: Phenomenology of History Beyond Narratology. In: Brough, J.B., Embree, L. (eds) The Many Faces of Time. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9411-0_8

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