R. Gotesky: ‘Aloneness, Loneliness, Isolation, Solitude’

In this essay, Rubin Gotesky studies the condition of aloneness that acts as the foundation for alienation. Aloneness is an innate condition defined by the fact that each person is singular, residing in one conscience. However, we are social creatures with an innate capability and desire to connect to the others in which [...]

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Immanence(s), Transcendencies, and Absolute Being

*What I have written here is an attempt to make sense of our discussion and Husserl’s thought. While I would love to imagine that I was capable of getting Husserl in the first month, I hereby pragmatically stress that I am not in fact capable of such feats. What follows is therefore a particular interpretation, [...]

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Transcendent Vacillations

I’d like to clarify what I meant in class by the image of “vacillation” I put forth in our discussion of immanence, transcendence, and the pure ego. What I understand of the experience that people call “ego death” or “the phantasm of the eternal return” could be called an undulation between experience of ego and [...]

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Intentionality and Reflection

Class on 24 September … In the beginning of class we outlined several “moments of insight” regarding Husserlian phenomenology, key concepts that reveal more and more about the philosophy. This served as a sort of review of the previous class sessions. The concept of Fact and Essence and their inseparability, the Natural Attitude and its [...]

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Is reflection a choice?

I feel like we are speaking of reflection (ie, ideation) as a willed act; is this an accurate observation? If so, is it worth deconstructing the relation of intentionality to consciousness?

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