Abstract

To begin, this chapter explains the relationship between the different levels of constituting consciousness and how we move between them in, for example, the constitution of an object. In doing so, this chapter shows that horizons of expectation are a necessary element of passive constitution, and hence are necessary for the subject to have a 'world' in the phenomenological sense. In making clear the difference between protention and expectation, this chapter describes the distinction in modes of givenness between intuition (given to consciousness) and absolute consciousness (givenness of consciousness). This distinction is not only central to any attempt to move Husserl beyond Kant (and therefore any attempt to understand the nature of phenomenology itself, as a discipline), but also prefigures the later discussion of the subject as both constituting and constituted.

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