Saulius Geniuša
Biographic Data
| ID | 4427768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saulius Geniuša |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saulius |
| FAMILY NAME | Geniuša |
| SIGNATURE | GENIUŠA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6086-8309 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What is sedimentation?
This introduction to the special issue “What is Sedimentation? Consciousness, History, Language” clarifies the central role of sedimentation in Husserlian and post-Husserlian phenomenology and sets the stage for the essays that follow. Borrowed from geology, sedimentation functions in phenomenology as a concept-metaphor for the temporal layering of experience, habit, and meaning, linking static, genetic, and generative phenomenology. It names bot…
Generative phenomenology and sedimentations
In the framework of Husserl’s phenomenology, we can distinguish three conceptions of sedimentation: static, genetic, and generative. After briefly sketching the static and genetic conceptions, this paper offers a detailed examination of generative sedimentations, showing how present consciousness is shaped not only by its own past but also by intersubjective and intergenerational formations. It distinguishes four partially overlapping frameworks …
Yearning for the Irretrievable: Nostalgia and Time
Situating phenomenological reflections on nostalgia within a historical context, I argue that Kant's temporalization of nostalgia remains incomplete. Bringing into question the widespread assumption that the object of nostalgia must be the past, I argue that nostalgia can be spoken of in three fundamental ways: as nostalgia for the past, for the present, and for the future. I further clarify the relation between the three forms of nostalgia here …
Nostalgia for the Past, Present and Future
In my response to the three commentaries, I emphasize the importance of philosophical reflections on nostalgia, and especially those that are oriented phenomenologically. I criticize the methodological commitments that underlie the approach taken by Constantine Sedikides and Tim Wildschut as well as their contention that nostalgia for the past is the only legitimate form of nostalgia. I reflect on the importance of various implications that James…
Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology of sedimentations
Although few other phenomenologists have provided a more insightful analysis of sedimentation than Alfred Schutz, the importance of his reflections remains heavily underappreciated. To counteract this deficiency, this paper develops a systematic account of Schutz’s phenomenology of sedimentations. While recognizing the Husserlian background that underlies Schutz’s investigations, the paper brings to light the novelty of Schutz’s account which, I …
The Origins of Sedimentation in Husserl 's Phenomenology
Husserl is the philosopher who transformed the geological metaphor of sedimentation into a philosophical concept. While tracing the development of Husserl's reflections on sedimentation, I argue that the distinctive feature of Husserl's approach lies in his preoccupation with the question concerning the origins of sedimentations. The paper demonstrates that in different frameworks of analysis, Husserl understood these origins in significantly dif…
Phenomenology of Solastalgia: From Transcendental Homelessness to Transcendental Placelessness
This article develops a phenomenological account of solastalgia, the distress experienced in response to environmental degradation, arguing that it is a disclosive emotion revealing a new transcendental topography of our time. After clarifying the conceptual ambiguities that affect the scope, affective structure, and temporal forms of the concept, the article distinguishes between perceptual, cognitive, and perceptual-cognitive solastalgia, and a…
Prolegomena to a phenomenology of mind-wandering
The Unconscious in Husserl’s Phenomenology
Although Husserl’s analyses of the unconscious are scattered throughout various writings, many of which have been published in Hua III/2, Hua VI, Hua X, Hua XI, Hua XV, Hua XVII, Hua XXXIX and Experience and Judgment , nowhere else has he addressed the unconscious in such fascinating detail as in the manuscripts collected in Hua XLII. The publication of this volume has made it patently clear that the unconscious has many meanings in Husserl. A cl…
Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Sedimentations
The paper explores the meaning of the phenomenological concept of sedimentation in the framework of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. The analysis I offer suggests that Merleau-Ponty initiates a transition from the constitutional problematic of sedimentations that we come across in Husserl’s phenomenology to the analysis of existential sedimentations. Merleau-Ponty accomplishes this transformation by binding the Husserlian conception of sedimentatio…
Destiny, Love and Rational Faith in Husserl’s Post World War I Ethics
Modes of Self-Awareness: Perception, Dreams, Memory
What Is Immersion? Towards a Phenomenology of Virtual Reality
Although the importance of the concept of immersion in game studies is indisputable, its meaning remains imprecise and ambiguous. My goal here is to develop a phenomenological clarification of this concept. I begin by clarifying how immersion has been understood in game studies. I further contend that immersion in digital games should be recognized as one modality of immersion among others. This basic realization allows one to open a dialogue bet…
Towards a Phenomenology of the Unconscious: Husserl and Fink on Versunkenheit
As a phenomenological concept, absorption refers to the ego's capacity to experience the world from a displaced standpoint. The paper traces the emergence and development of this concept in Husserl's and Fink's writings and demonstrates that while Fink conceived of absorption as a class of intuitive re-presentations, Husserl transformed it into a limit phenomenon, whose analysis calls for a new method. A careful study of absorption compels us to …
Conscious and Unconscious Phantasy and the Phenomenology of Dreams
My goal is threefold. First, building on the basis of Husserl’s phenomenology of the imagination, I will argue that phantasy is a specific type of intentional experience, which intends its objects as neutralized presentifications ( neutralisierte Vergegenwärtigungen ). Second, I will turn to dreams and argue that non-lucid dreams are unconscious phantasies , which cannot be conceived in the above-mentioned way. This realization will bring us to t…
Multiple Realities” Revisited: James and Schutz
Productive Imagination: Its History, Meaning and Significance
Hermeneutics and Phenomenology: Figures and Themes
The relationship between these two central theoretical and philosophical approaches, which we thought we knew, is more complex and interesting than our standard story might suggest. It is not always clear how hermeneutics—that is, post-Heideggerian hermeneutics as articulated by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, and a large number of thinkers working under their influence—regards the phenomenological tradition, be it in its Husserlian or various …
Between Phenomenology and Hermeneutics: Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy of Imagination
The origins of the phenomenology of pain: Brentano, Stumpf and Husserl
The Problem of Signs in Heidegger's Being and Time
The author argues that our ontological understanding of signs remains incomplete as long as it is limited to Heidegger's explicit analysis of signs in Being and Time. Besides focusing on §17 (the only section in this work that addresses signs explicitly), a full-scale evaluation of Heidegger's ontology of signs must also inquire into (1) the relation between signs and the question of the meaning of Being, as well as (2) the role signs perform on …
Is the Self of Social Behaviorism Capable of Auto-Affection: Mead and Marion on the ?I? and the ?Me
The purpose of this manuscript is to bring Mead's pragmatism into contact with Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology. Taking as its focus the question of the I-pole of the self, the paper points to the absence and the need of a concept like auto-affection in Mead's analysis of selfhood. A pragmatic appropriation of this concept does not undermine the social framework of selfhood because the most rudimentary self-givenness is immediate and direct, yet s…
The Unconscious in Husserl’s Phenomenology
Although Husserl’s analyses of the unconscious are scattered throughout various writings, many of which have been published in Hua III/2, Hua VI, Hua X, Hua XI, Hua XV, Hua XVII, Hua XXXIX and Experience and Judgment , nowhere else has he addressed the unconscious in such fascinating detail as in the manuscripts collected in Hua XLII. The publication of this volume has made it patently clear that the unconscious has many meanings in Husserl. A cl…
Destiny, Love and Rational Faith in Husserl’s Post World War I Ethics
Multiple Realities” Revisited: James and Schutz
Towards a Phenomenology of the Unconscious: Husserl and Fink on Versunkenheit
As a phenomenological concept, absorption refers to the ego's capacity to experience the world from a displaced standpoint. The paper traces the emergence and development of this concept in Husserl's and Fink's writings and demonstrates that while Fink conceived of absorption as a class of intuitive re-presentations, Husserl transformed it into a limit phenomenon, whose analysis calls for a new method. A careful study of absorption compels us to …
Between Phenomenology and Hermeneutics: Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy of Imagination
Is the Self of Social Behaviorism Capable of Auto-Affection: Mead and Marion on the ?I? and the ?Me
The purpose of this manuscript is to bring Mead's pragmatism into contact with Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology. Taking as its focus the question of the I-pole of the self, the paper points to the absence and the need of a concept like auto-affection in Mead's analysis of selfhood. A pragmatic appropriation of this concept does not undermine the social framework of selfhood because the most rudimentary self-givenness is immediate and direct, yet s…
The Problem of Signs in Heidegger's Being and Time
The author argues that our ontological understanding of signs remains incomplete as long as it is limited to Heidegger's explicit analysis of signs in Being and Time. Besides focusing on §17 (the only section in this work that addresses signs explicitly), a full-scale evaluation of Heidegger's ontology of signs must also inquire into (1) the relation between signs and the question of the meaning of Being, as well as (2) the role signs perform on …
The origins of the phenomenology of pain: Brentano, Stumpf and Husserl
Between Phenomenology and Hermeneutics: Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy of Imagination
Productive Imagination: Its History, Meaning and Significance
Hermeneutics and Phenomenology: Figures and Themes
The relationship between these two central theoretical and philosophical approaches, which we thought we knew, is more complex and interesting than our standard story might suggest. It is not always clear how hermeneutics—that is, post-Heideggerian hermeneutics as articulated by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, and a large number of thinkers working under their influence—regards the phenomenological tradition, be it in its Husserlian or various …
Multiple Realities” Revisited: James and Schutz
Conscious and Unconscious Phantasy and the Phenomenology of Dreams
My goal is threefold. First, building on the basis of Husserl’s phenomenology of the imagination, I will argue that phantasy is a specific type of intentional experience, which intends its objects as neutralized presentifications ( neutralisierte Vergegenwärtigungen ). Second, I will turn to dreams and argue that non-lucid dreams are unconscious phantasies , which cannot be conceived in the above-mentioned way. This realization will bring us to t…
Modes of Self-Awareness: Perception, Dreams, Memory
What Is Immersion? Towards a Phenomenology of Virtual Reality
Although the importance of the concept of immersion in game studies is indisputable, its meaning remains imprecise and ambiguous. My goal here is to develop a phenomenological clarification of this concept. I begin by clarifying how immersion has been understood in game studies. I further contend that immersion in digital games should be recognized as one modality of immersion among others. This basic realization allows one to open a dialogue bet…
Towards a Phenomenology of the Unconscious: Husserl and Fink on Versunkenheit
As a phenomenological concept, absorption refers to the ego's capacity to experience the world from a displaced standpoint. The paper traces the emergence and development of this concept in Husserl's and Fink's writings and demonstrates that while Fink conceived of absorption as a class of intuitive re-presentations, Husserl transformed it into a limit phenomenon, whose analysis calls for a new method. A careful study of absorption compels us to …
Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Sedimentations
The paper explores the meaning of the phenomenological concept of sedimentation in the framework of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. The analysis I offer suggests that Merleau-Ponty initiates a transition from the constitutional problematic of sedimentations that we come across in Husserl’s phenomenology to the analysis of existential sedimentations. Merleau-Ponty accomplishes this transformation by binding the Husserlian conception of sedimentatio…
Destiny, Love and Rational Faith in Husserl’s Post World War I Ethics
Prolegomena to a phenomenology of mind-wandering
The Unconscious in Husserl’s Phenomenology
Although Husserl’s analyses of the unconscious are scattered throughout various writings, many of which have been published in Hua III/2, Hua VI, Hua X, Hua XI, Hua XV, Hua XVII, Hua XXXIX and Experience and Judgment , nowhere else has he addressed the unconscious in such fascinating detail as in the manuscripts collected in Hua XLII. The publication of this volume has made it patently clear that the unconscious has many meanings in Husserl. A cl…
Yearning for the Irretrievable: Nostalgia and Time
Situating phenomenological reflections on nostalgia within a historical context, I argue that Kant's temporalization of nostalgia remains incomplete. Bringing into question the widespread assumption that the object of nostalgia must be the past, I argue that nostalgia can be spoken of in three fundamental ways: as nostalgia for the past, for the present, and for the future. I further clarify the relation between the three forms of nostalgia here …
Nostalgia for the Past, Present and Future
In my response to the three commentaries, I emphasize the importance of philosophical reflections on nostalgia, and especially those that are oriented phenomenologically. I criticize the methodological commitments that underlie the approach taken by Constantine Sedikides and Tim Wildschut as well as their contention that nostalgia for the past is the only legitimate form of nostalgia. I reflect on the importance of various implications that James…
Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology of sedimentations
Although few other phenomenologists have provided a more insightful analysis of sedimentation than Alfred Schutz, the importance of his reflections remains heavily underappreciated. To counteract this deficiency, this paper develops a systematic account of Schutz’s phenomenology of sedimentations. While recognizing the Husserlian background that underlies Schutz’s investigations, the paper brings to light the novelty of Schutz’s account which, I …
The Origins of Sedimentation in Husserl 's Phenomenology
Husserl is the philosopher who transformed the geological metaphor of sedimentation into a philosophical concept. While tracing the development of Husserl's reflections on sedimentation, I argue that the distinctive feature of Husserl's approach lies in his preoccupation with the question concerning the origins of sedimentations. The paper demonstrates that in different frameworks of analysis, Husserl understood these origins in significantly dif…
Phenomenology of Solastalgia: From Transcendental Homelessness to Transcendental Placelessness
This article develops a phenomenological account of solastalgia, the distress experienced in response to environmental degradation, arguing that it is a disclosive emotion revealing a new transcendental topography of our time. After clarifying the conceptual ambiguities that affect the scope, affective structure, and temporal forms of the concept, the article distinguishes between perceptual, cognitive, and perceptual-cognitive solastalgia, and a…
What is sedimentation?
This introduction to the special issue “What is Sedimentation? Consciousness, History, Language” clarifies the central role of sedimentation in Husserlian and post-Husserlian phenomenology and sets the stage for the essays that follow. Borrowed from geology, sedimentation functions in phenomenology as a concept-metaphor for the temporal layering of experience, habit, and meaning, linking static, genetic, and generative phenomenology. It names bot…
Generative phenomenology and sedimentations
In the framework of Husserl’s phenomenology, we can distinguish three conceptions of sedimentation: static, genetic, and generative. After briefly sketching the static and genetic conceptions, this paper offers a detailed examination of generative sedimentations, showing how present consciousness is shaped not only by its own past but also by intersubjective and intergenerational formations. It distinguishes four partially overlapping frameworks …
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