The Ways to the Transcendental Reduction

HERNÁN INVERSO

Carbondale

Conferencia; PRC Phenomenology Conference; 2019

Southern Illinois University

Husserl devised transcendental Phenomenology a lustrum after the publication of Logical Investigations as follows from the Seefeld manuscripts. From then on, reduction and the ways to achieve this have an important place not only in systematic works, but also in those aiming to spread Phenomenology among larger audiences. Many times in hindsight the problematic points in Husserl's statements have been interpreted in the light of his changing assessment of Cartesianism, which was later integrated into the broader question on the ways to the transcendental phenomenological reduction. In what follows we shall first deal with the discussion of Cartesianism and its supposed abandonment. We will then analyze the question of the identification, number and relation of the ways and their role in the methodological device. Finally, we will show that the question of the ways to the transcendental realm supports the hypothesis of a four-dimensional Phenomenology, since it illustrates the need to contemplate the relationship between different phenomenological strata. In this respect, by complementing the studies on the static, genetic and generative dimensions with Inapparence as a fourth-phenomenological stratum, we will sustain that not only Husserlian developments on exceedance but also some post-husserlian lines usually viewed as problematic become better included in a manner that strengthen Phenomenology as a whole.