Vindicating Husserl's Primal I

TY - CHAP

T1 - Vindicating Husserl's Primal I

AU - Zahavi, Dan

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - This paper explores the complex answer to the question of whether the self is prior to the Other or the Other is prior to the self in Husserl’s phenomenology. Contrary to standard accounts of Husserl’s presumptive solipsism, this paper demonstrates how Husserl understands the self and the Other as essentially related while at the same time developing a notion of the primal ego. Informative and critical comparisons with Merleau-Ponty and Scheler are also developed in a defense of Husserl’s notion of the primal ego.

AB - This paper explores the complex answer to the question of whether the self is prior to the Other or the Other is prior to the self in Husserl’s phenomenology. Contrary to standard accounts of Husserl’s presumptive solipsism, this paper demonstrates how Husserl understands the self and the Other as essentially related while at the same time developing a notion of the primal ego. Informative and critical comparisons with Merleau-Ponty and Scheler are also developed in a defense of Husserl’s notion of the primal ego.

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-02018-1_1

DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-02018-1_1

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9783319020174

T3 - Contributions to Phenomenology

SP - 1

EP - 14

BT - Phenomenology in a New Key

A2 - Bloechl, Jeffrey

A2 - de Warren, Nicolas

PB - Springer Science+Business Media

ER -