{"id":958,"date":"2011-04-15T18:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T22:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.emory.edu\/gpse\/?p=958"},"modified":"2011-04-15T18:00:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T22:00:38","slug":"0415","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gpse\/2011\/04\/15\/0415\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHusserl\u2019s Eidetic Variation: A Puzzle\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Presentation by <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.emory.edu\/gpse\/students\/aaldea\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smaranda Aldea<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gpse\/files\/2011\/02\/husserl_thumb-211x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-961\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Location: <\/strong> Bowden Hall, Room 216<br \/>\n<strong>Date: <\/strong> 04.15.2011<br \/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong> 4.15pm &#8211; 5.30pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br \/>\nWhile Husserl made numerous references to <em>eidetic variation<\/em> in his programmatic texts he remained silent with respect to the foundation and nature of this process meant to culminate in the eidetic grasp of ideal structures. My paper is an attempt to break this silence by following a suggestion Husserl himself fleetingly made in <em>Ideas I<\/em> &#8211; that phenomenology and all eidetic thought stemmed from and were fueled by the imagination (Hua III\/1, 148). By exploring the structure of the imagination (<em>Phantasie<\/em>) as Husserl\u2019s analyses (Hua XXIII) revealed it, I stress two key points: that the imagination is not solely a type of singular act, but a primordial type of consciousness functioning as a horizon within which other acts, such as judgment, can unfold; and that, unlike perception, described primarily by Husserl in terms of <em>doxic modality<\/em>, <em>determinacy<\/em>, and <em>actuality (Hua XI), the imagination is marked by <em>doxic neutrality<\/em>, <em>freedom<\/em>, and <em>possibility<\/em>. Next, I argue that neutrality, freedom, and possibility are the main dimensions of <em>free imaginative variation<\/em>, and show that phenomenological eidetic variation, as inquiring process, relies on imaginative variation and renders the latter teleological. I close by exploring the nature of the shift from variation to eidetic intuition in terms of a movement beyond <em>Phantasie<\/em>, yet nevertheless fueled by it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presentation by Smaranda Aldea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-friday-philosophy-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gpse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}