Phenomenology and Embodiment: Husserl and the Constitution of Subjectivity

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments This work was written mainly in 2006–9 in Helsinki and Copenhagen, and an earlier version of it was accepted as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Helsinki in 2009. In many ways, the process of writing was positively influenced by the dialogue with several colleagues and friends, and I am thankful for all the collegiality, critique, and encouragement that I came to experience. I want to express my gratitude first and foremost to Sara Heinämaa, who generously commented on and discussed the book in various phases. I am very much indebted also to Rudolf Bernet, David Carr, Steven Crowell, Anthony Steinbock, and Dan Zahavi for their thoughtful comments on earlier versions of the book. I am further grateful to Anthony Steinbock for initiating the publication process, and I thank the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments, as well as Jane Bunker, Liz Hamilton, and Nathan MacBrien for carrying the project forward at Northwestern University Press. I am much obliged to Dieter Lohmar for the access to Husserl’s unpublished manuscripts at the Husserl-Archives in Cologne. Yet another thanks is directed to the executive committee of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology, the activities of which I became strongly involved with while writing the book. I also want to thank the Academy of Finland, the Emil Aaltonen Foundation, the University of Helsinki, and the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen for providing the material conditions for writing this book. I am grateful to the director of the Husserl-Archives in Leuven, Ullrich Melle, for permission to quote from Husserl’s unpublished manuscripts , and I also thank Springer Science+Business Media for permission to reuse some material that previously appeared in my article “Twofold Normality: Husserl and the Normative Relevance of Primordial Constitution ,” Husserl Studies 28, no. 1 [2012]: 49–60. A very special thanks goes to my closest colleagues in Helsinki, Jussi Backman, Timo Miettinen, Simo Pulkkinen, and Mirja Hartimo, without whom I hardly would have ever written this book, and to the whole staff of my current academic base camp, the Center for Subjectivity Research. x A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S Last but not least, I want to thank my wife, Eveliina, and my daughters Pihla and Veera: your loving presence repeatedly restores my perspective on life, and I thus dedicate this book to you. Copenhagen, June 2013 P H E N O M E N O L O G Y A N D E M B O D I M E N T ...