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DECONSTRUCTING PRESENCE: RETHINKING THE INTENTIONALITY OF THE SUBJECT ON THE BASIS OF THE EXISTENTIALITY OF DASEIN

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2014
Abstract/Description:
Having begun from the assumption that our most fundamental way to relate to the world stems from an 'I think' and that consciousness is at the center of this act, Edmund Husserl sets himself up for a very narrow and specialized view of human experience. In the end, such assumptions in the philosophical tradition and their terms often remain unquestioned and ingrained in a paradigm of discourse. My aim is to move beneath these assumptions -using Heidegger's and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological work- so as to, first, explicitly undermine the scope of Husserlian intentionality at its foundation and, second, decenter the subject in contemporary phenomenological literature. An account of human experience in terms of inner intentional content, I argue, yields an incomplete and misleading picture of our human involvements and we must ultimately move beyond the subject and its logic. The way we are always already being-in-the-world and embodied in the phenomenal texture of everydayness leaves the cogito one step behind.
Title: DECONSTRUCTING PRESENCE: RETHINKING THE INTENTIONALITY OF THE SUBJECT ON THE BASIS OF THE EXISTENTIALITY OF DASEIN.
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Name(s): Diaz, Edgar, Author
Strawser, Michael, Committee Chair
University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Date Issued: 2014
Publisher: University of Central Florida
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: Having begun from the assumption that our most fundamental way to relate to the world stems from an 'I think' and that consciousness is at the center of this act, Edmund Husserl sets himself up for a very narrow and specialized view of human experience. In the end, such assumptions in the philosophical tradition and their terms often remain unquestioned and ingrained in a paradigm of discourse. My aim is to move beneath these assumptions -using Heidegger's and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological work- so as to, first, explicitly undermine the scope of Husserlian intentionality at its foundation and, second, decenter the subject in contemporary phenomenological literature. An account of human experience in terms of inner intentional content, I argue, yields an incomplete and misleading picture of our human involvements and we must ultimately move beyond the subject and its logic. The way we are always already being-in-the-world and embodied in the phenomenal texture of everydayness leaves the cogito one step behind.
Identifier: CFH0004709 (IID), ucf:45398 (fedora)
Note(s): 2014-12-01
B.A.
Arts and Humanities, Dept. of Philosophy
Bachelors
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Subject(s): Dasein
Subject
Body
Ego
Hyle
Care
Worldhood
Embodiment
Being-in-the-world
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004709
Restrictions on Access: campus 2019-12-01
Host Institution: UCF

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