Why the Noema?

LUIS ROMÁN RABANAQUE

Phenomenology 2005. Volume III: Selected Essays from Latin America - Part 2

Zeta Books

Lugar: Bucarest; Año: 2007; p. 447 - 465

After almost forty years of debate, the question is asked again: Why the Noema? We will try to advance an answer on the basis of: 1) Th e historical background of Husserl’s attempt to overcome Cartesianism; 2) Th e structure of the noema’s transcendence and ideality, which in turn leads to focus anew on the controversy between “traditional” and “analytic” interpretations; 3) Noematic constitution understood not as yielding “entities” but as a “network” of levels and strata, which include the role of the living body and the genetic dimension, both concerning primary passivity in the living present and secondary passivity or habituality.