Crisis And Husserlian Phenomenology A Reflection On Awakened Subjectivity Kenneth Knies by Kenneth Knies 9781350145214, 9781350145245, 1350145211, 1350145246 instant download after payment.

The experience of realizing that something has slipped our notice is a common one and yet it has profound implications for how phenomenology – or the study of consciousness – relates to everyday life. When we reflect, we have a heightened ability to recognize and take note, but in the process of realization we become culpable for our failure to do so. Is this failure a form of naiveté then? Using quotidian examples, Kenneth Knies develops an original account of naiveté as a failure to take notice and suggests that humans are responsible for this failure because they have assumed a naïve position on the basis of the information that was not, but should have been available to them.
For Edmund Husserl, the philosopher is responsible for recovering this naïve position from a wakeful perspective, so that owing to the magnitude of this task, they themselves are a subject of crisis. By placing Husserl in dialogue with other key thinkers in Continental philosophy such as Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Derrida, Kenneth Knies interrogates how transcendental subjectivity, or pure consciousness is discovered and what exactly it is responsible for. In doing so, he provides a thorough text suitable for advanced students and scholars interested in Continental philosophy, phenomenology, problems of responsibility and the philosophy of history.