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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2012

Pages: 49-60

Series: Husserl Studies

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Joona Taipale, "Twofold normality", Husserl Studies 28 (1), 2012, pp. 49-60.

Twofold normality

Husserl and the normative relevance of primordial constitution

Joona Taipale

pp. 49-60

in: Husserl Studies 28 (1), 2012.

Abstract

This article draws on Husserl's manuscripts from the 1920s and 1930s (especially on the as-yet unpublished D-manuscripts), arguing that each concrete experience is governed by an irreducible tension between two intersecting normative dimensions: primordial and intersubjective. Husserl's ideas of normality and normativity have gained a lot of attention in recent years, but the normative aspects of primordial constitution have not been properly taken into account. By arguing for the "normative tension" between the primordial and the intersubjective, this article contributes to filling in this lack. By doing so, it sheds new light on the debate concerning the relationship between genetic and generative phenomenology, challenging interpretations that exclusively render either the genetic-primordial or the generative-intersubjective as the constitutive absolute.

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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2012

Pages: 49-60

Series: Husserl Studies

Full citation:

Joona Taipale, "Twofold normality", Husserl Studies 28 (1), 2012, pp. 49-60.