Acta Structuralica

international journal for structuralist research

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Transcendental aesthetic and the problem of transcendentality

Vincenzo Costa(University Vita-Salute San Raffaele)

pp. 9-28

Abstract

The present paper sets out to delineate the phenomena, scope and characteristics of a transcendental aesthetic and to place it within the context of the transcendental-phenomenological project, with the ultimate aim of offering an interpretation of the notion of the transcendental in Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology. I shall try first of all to show that the phenomenological problem of foundation has nothing to do with a self-conscious subject, without shadows, entirely transparent. The problem of foundation has rather to do with the elaboration of a phenomenology that deals with the subjectivity of the subject. This is another way of saying that in order to frame a theory of transcendental experience we need a transcendental aesthetic that is amenable to the analysis of primordial constitution, namely to the most fundamental structures that rule the life of consciousness as transcendental life.

Publication details

Published in:

Depraz Natalie, Zahavi Dan (1998) Alterity and facticity: New perspectives on Husserl. Dordrecht, Kluwer.

Pages: 9-28

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-5064-4_1

Full citation:

Costa Vincenzo (1998) „Transcendental aesthetic and the problem of transcendentality“, In: N. Depraz & D. Zahavi (eds.), Alterity and facticity, Dordrecht, Kluwer, 9–28.