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5Transcendental Phenomenology as Radical Immanent CritiqueIn María Del Del Rosario Acosta López & Colin McQuillan (eds.), Critique in German Philosophy: From Kant to Critical Theory, Suny Press. pp. 281-300. 2020.
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10Self-Othering, Self-Transformation, and Theoretical Freedom: Self-Variation and Husserl’s Phenomenology as Radical Immanent CritiqueIn Daniele De Santis (ed.), Edmund Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations: Commentary, Interpretations, Discussions, Verlag Karl Alber. pp. 429-458. 2023.
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21Phenomenology as Critique: Why Method Matters (edited book)Routledge. 2022.Drawing on Husserlian resources and existentialist and hermeneutical approaches, this book argues that critique is largely a question of method. It shows that phenomenological discussions of social and political problems draw from a tradition of radically critical investigations in epistemology, social ontology, political theory, and ethics.
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34We Have Only Just Begun: On the Reach of the Imagination and the Depths of Conscious LifeHusserl Studies 36 (3): 205-211. 2020.
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35Modality Matters: Imagination as Consciousness of Possibilities and Husserl’s Transcendental-Historical EideticsHusserl Studies 36 (3): 303-318. 2020.The paper contends that transcendental phenomenology is a form of radical immanent critique able to explicate the necessary structures of meaning-constitution as well as evaluate our present situation through the historically traditionalized layers of concrete, lived experience. In order to make this case, the paper examines the critical dimension of phenomenology through the lens of one of its core conditions for possibility: the imagination. Building on—yet also departing from—Husserl’s own an…Read more
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430Phantasie and Phenomenological Inquiry - Thinking with Edmund HusserlDissertation, . 2012.This dissertation explores and argues for the import of the imagination (Phantasie) in Edmund Husserl's phenomenological method of inquiry. It contends that Husserl's extensive analyses of the imagination influenced how he came to conceive the phenomenological method throughout the main stages of his philosophical career. The work clarifies Husserl's complex method of investigation by considering the role of the imagination in his main methodological apparatuses: the phenomenological, eidetic, a…Read more
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History, Critique, and Freedom: The Historical A Priori in Husserl and FoucaultSpringer, Continental Philosophy Review. 2016.
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299Transcendental Phenomenology as Radical Immanent Critique – Subversions and Matrices of IntelligibilityIn Colin McQuillan & María del Rosario Acosta (ed.), Critique in German Philosophy. forthcoming.
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66Imagination and Its Critical Dimension – Lived Possibilities and An Other Kind of OtherwiseNew Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 2 (XVII). 2019.Following Husserl’s analyses of perception and imagination, the paper introduces two basic modes of intelligibility – the normalizing and the imagining – and argues that they are deeply intertwined, despite radical qualitative differences between them. What sets these two modes apart are their distinctive teleological orientations. To show this, the paper looks closely at the ways in which we experience difference in these respective modes. This discussion requires, however, that we challenge Hu…Read more
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612Phenomenology as Critique: Teleological–Historical Reflection and Husserl’s Transcendental EideticsHusserl Studies 32 (1): 21-46. 2016.Many have deemed ineluctable the tension between Husserl’s transcendental eidetics and his Crisis method of historical reflection. In this paper, I argue that this tension is an apparent one. I contend that dissolving this tension and showing not only the possibility, but also the necessity of the successful collaboration between these two apparently irreconcilable methods guarantees the very freedom of inquiry Husserl so emphatically stressed. To make this case, I draw from Husserl’s synthetic …Read more
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42Making Sense of Husserl’s Notion of Teleology: Normativity, Reason, Progress and Phenomenology as ‘Critique from Within’Hegel Bulletin 38 (1): 104-128. 2017.The paper examines Husserl’s notion of teleology through the lens of necessity and argues that there are two senses of teleology—historical and transcendental—at work in the task of phenomenology, especially as Husserl comes to conceive it in theCrisis. To understand not only how these two senses are related but also how their relationship shapes Husserl’s notions of normativity, reason, and progress, I argue that we must look closely at phenomenology as a distinctive form of critique, namely cr…Read more
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54Comments on Johanna Oksala’s Feminist Experiences (review)Continental Philosophy Review 52 (1): 125-134. 2018.
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56Husserl’s Break from Brentano Reconsidered: Abstraction and the Structure of ConsciousnessAxiomathes 24 (3): 395-426. 2014.The paper contends that abstraction lies at the core of the philosophical and methodological rupture that occurred between Husserl and his mentor Franz Brentano. To accomplish this, it explores the notion of abstraction at work in these two thinkers’ methodological discussions through their respective claims regarding the structure of consciousness, and shows that how Husserl and Brentano analyze the structure of consciousness conditions and strictly delineates the nature and reach of their meth…Read more
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2191Husserl’s struggle with mental images: imaging and imagining reconsideredContinental Philosophy Review 46 (3): 371-394. 2013.Husserl’s extensive analyses of image consciousness (Bildbewusstsein) and of the imagination (Phantasie) offer insightful and detailed structural explications. However, despite this careful work, Husserl’s discussions fail to overcome the need to rely on a most problematic concept: mental images. The epistemological conundrums triggered by the conceptual framework of mental images are well known—we have only to remember the questions regarding knowledge acquisition that plagued British empiricis…Read more
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66History, critique, and freedom: the historical a priori in Husserl and FoucaultContinental Philosophy Review 49 (1): 1-11. 2016.
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