Abstract
Taking the problem of perception and illusion as a leading clue, this article presents a new phenomenological approach to perception and the world: “holism of experience.” It challenges not only Husserl’s transcendentalism, but also what remains of it in Heidegger’s early thought, on the grounds that it is committed to the skeptical inference: “Since we can always doubt any perception, we can always doubt perception as a whole.” The rejection of such an implicit inference leads to a relational paradigm of Being-in-the-World that differs from Heidegger’s on many points.
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Heidegger (1999, p. 61) [Below Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe is abbreviated GA #, p. #].
Ibid., p. 5.
Heidegger (1992, p. 157); GA 20, p. 211.
Boehm (1959, p. 486).
Ingarden (1975, p. 21). [“Streichen wir das reine Bewusstsein, so streichen wir die Welt.”].
BT, pp. 246–247; SZ, p. 202.
BT, p. 271 [trans. slightly modified—Tr.]; SZ, p. 229.
GA 56/57, p. 92.
Heidegger (1988 p. 170); GA 24, p. 241.
BT, pp. 255–256; SZ, p. 212.
BT, p. 251; SZ, p. 208.
BT, p. 34; SZ 13.
Heidegger (1988, p. 216); GA 24, p. 308.
Heidegger (1988, p. 166); GA 24, p. 237.
Heidegger (1984, p. 169); GA 26, p. 217.
Husserl (1997, p. 12); Hua 16, p. 15.
Husserl (1997, p. 13); Hua 16, p. 16.
Husserl (1982, p. 332); Hua 3.1, p. 320.
Husserl (1973, p. 17); Hua 1, p. 57.
Qtd. by Merleau-Ponty (1962, p. 334).
Ibid., p. 340 [trans. modified—Tr.].
Merleau-Ponty (1962, pp. 344, 339, 342, respectively).
Ibid., xvi.
Ibid., p. 207. See also BT, p. 251: “But what distinguishes this assertion [“the external world is Really present-at hand”] is the fact that in realism there is a lack of ontological understanding. Indeed realism tries to explain Reality ontically by Real connections of interaction between things that are Real.”
Merleau-Ponty (1962, pp. 49, 363–364, 369); “The return to perceptual experience… puts out of court all forms of realism,” Ibid., p. 47.
Heidegger (1984, p. 192); GA 26, 248–249.
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Romano, C. Challenging the transcendental position: the holism of experience. Cont Philos Rev 44, 1–21 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-011-9165-x
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