The Origins of the Horizon in Husserl s Phenomenology

This is the first book-length analysis of the problematic concept of the horizon in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology. The author demonstrates the rightful centrality of the concept of the horizon, too often viewed as an imprecise metaphor of little importance.

The first book-length study of the concept of the horizon in phenomenology Traces the emergence of this notion in philosophy, arguing that the horizon-problematic originates in Husserl's phenomenology Systematic analysis of the horizon in the totality of Husserl's work including unpublished research Opens a fresh dialogue with hermeneutics by abandoning standard, thematic interpretations of the horizon?

Auteur

Saulius Geniusas was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1977. He received his B.A. in Philosophy at Vilnius University in Lithuania (1999), his M.A. in Philosophy at McMaster University in Canada (2002), and his PhD in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in the USA (2008). In 2006-2007, Geniusas received a research grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) that enabled him to spend an academic year at the Husserl Archive at the University of Cologne. During his graduate studies in New York, Geniusas received a few teaching fellowships that enabled him to offer courses in Philosophy at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts. In 2008 Geniusas defended his dissertation, The Origins of the Horizon in Husserl's Phenomenology, at the New School for Social Research. His dissertation was awarded the Hans Jonas Prize. Still in 2008, Geniusas joined the Department of Philosophy and Religion at James Madison University in Virginia, USA, as an Assistant Professor in Philosophy. At James Madison University, Geniusas offers upper-level courses in Continental philosophy, especially in phenomenology and hermeneutics. Geniusas has edited a few volumes in phenomenology as well as published close to twenty articles in a number of philosophy journals and Anthologies. His publications address the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and a number of other philosophers that are generally grouped under the heading of European philosophy.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.- ABBREVIATIONS.- CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION.- PART I: THE EMERGENCE OF THE HORIZON.- CHAPTER II: INDEXICALITY AS A PHENOMENOLOGICAL PROBLEM.- CHAPTER III: JAMES AND HUSSERL: THE HORIZON AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL AND A PHILOSOPHICAL THEME.- CHAPTER IV: THE WORLD-HORIZON IN IDEAS I.- CHAPTER V: THE STRUCTURES OF HORIZON-CONSCIOUSNESS IN IDEAS I.- PART II: THE HORIZONS OF TRANSCENDENTAL SUBJECTIVITY.- CHAPTER VI: THE STATIC AND GENETIC DETERMINATIONS OF THE HORIZON.- CHAPTER VII: THE REDUCTION AS THE DISCLOSURE OF THE HORIZONS OF TRANSCENDENTAL SUBJECTIVITY.- CHAPTER VIII: THE HORIZON AND THE ORIGINS OF SENSE-FORMATION.- CHAPTER IX: HUSSERL'S NOTION OF THE PRIMAL EGO IN LIGHT OF THE HERMENEUTICAL CRITIQUE.- PART III: THE WORLD-HORIZON AS THE WHEREFROM, WHEREIN,AND THE WHERETO OF EXPERIENCE.- CHAPTER X: THE WORLD-HORIZON AS THE WHEREFROM OF EXPERIENCE.- CHAPTER XI: THE WORLD-HORIZON AS THE WHEREIN OF EXPERIENCE.- CHAPTER XII: THE WORLD-HORIZON AS THE WHERETO OF EXPERIENCE.- CHAPTER XIII: CONCLUSION.