On the difference between transcendental and empirical subjectivity

David Carr

pp. 175-191

in: Robert Stufflebeam (ed), To work at the foundations, Berlin, Springer, 1997

Abstract

From the time his phenomenological method was fully developed, Husserl always distinguished between transcendental subjectivity and its empirical or "mundane" counterpart. In this, as in many other things, Husserl's work was influenced by Kant and the neo-Kantians, who made a similar distinction. In this paper I want to examine this distinction, primarily in its Husserlian form, and consider some of its implications.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund