Acta Structuralica

international journal for structuralist research

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148021

Awareness of the perceptual world

Aron Gurwitsch

pp. 493-506

Abstract

The third class of facts that present themselves permanently to consciousness, at least in marginal form, pertains to the perceptual world. Whatever the theme of our mental activity, we cannot help being aware of a certain sector of the perceptual world, viz., our present perceptual environment, no matter how unconnected this sector may be, where relevancy is concerned, with that with which we are actually dealing. We may, for instance, remember a certain phase of our past and live in a "world of memory." Absorbed as we may be in this remembered world of the past, the present perceptual world in which at the moment we happen to find ourselves does not vanish from consciousness altogether.

Publication details

Published in:

Gurwitsch Aron (2010) The collected works of Aron Gurwitsch (1901-1973) III: The field of consciousness: theme, thematic field, and margin. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 493-506

DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3346-8_15

Full citation:

Gurwitsch Aron (2010) Awareness of the perceptual world, In: The collected works of Aron Gurwitsch (1901-1973) III, Dordrecht, Springer, 493–506.