Presentations and evaluations
A new look at Husserl's distinction between objectifying and non‐objectifying acts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7771306 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Staiti (0000-0002-1235-7109, Dipartimento di Discipline Umanistiche, Sociali e delle Imprese Culturali Unità di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Parma Parma Italy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-91 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0966-8373 • E-ISSN: 1468-0378 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ejop.12913 |
| OpenAlex | W4388638721 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
In this paper, I take a fresh look at Husserl's key distinction between objectifying and non‐objectifying acts, which roughly amounts to a distinction between presentational and evaluative experiences. My goal is to provide a clear and unified reconstruction of Husserl's argument for the thesis that non‐objectifying acts are necessarily founded in objectifying acts, a thesis that is highly controversial in and beyond Husserlian scholarship. In the first section, I reconstruct Husserl's view in the Logical Investigations , according to which only objectifying acts establish an independent intentional relation to their objects, and argue that it is justified by the positing function of objectifying acts. In the second section, I address two problematic interpretations of this view and, after criticizing them, I present what I take to be Husserl's core argument for his position. In the third section, I turn to the revision of the view of the Logical Investigations that Husserl proposes in the wake of his transcendental turn, especially in Ideas I and II . On Husserl's revised view, all acts are objectifying, including emotional acts [ Gemütsakte ]. This revision has led scholars to consider Husserl's view aporetic. I propose an alternative interpretation that dispels the purported aporia . I conclude with some remarks on the costs and benefits of my reading, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of Husserl's view in general
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Political science · Presentational and representational acting · Scholarship · Computer Science · Law · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy and Historical Thought · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |