Motivational analysis in Husserl's genetic phenomenology

Alice Pugliese

Università degli Studi di Palermo
Università degli Studi di Palermo

in: Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Andrea Staiti (eds), The promise of genetic phenomenology, Studia Phaenomenologica 18, 2018.

Abstract

The paper discusses motivation as the inner lawfulness of consciousness and a central methodological principle of genetic phenomenology, highlighting the problem of its ambiguous status oscillating between a historical-empirical and a transcendental account of consciousness. The focus on motivation allows for the practical character of intentionality to emerge, thus presenting genetic phenomenology as a more comprehensive approach to subjective life which takes into account its constitutive indeterminacy.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund