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In this chapter, the leading questions of this research are introduced. Beginning with some remarks concerning the fact that, in Husserl’s texts as well as in the literature commenting these texts, the analyses concerning time and space are more often than not kept separate from one another, the question as to how we shall conceive of their relationship is formulated. After introducing the interpretation of the relationship between spatiality and temporality in terms of analogies and parallelisms, which Husserl defends in some of his texts, I briefly expose my suggestion that such an understanding may be unsatisfactory both with respect to the description of such a relationship and with respect to the thematization of its role within experience. Consequently, following one insight of Husserl’s regarding the spatio-temporal configuration of experience, the hypothesis is formulated that the relationship between spatiality and temporality could be better understood as “intertwining”.
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An exception to the tendency of keeping separate the phenomenological analyses of space and time is represented by Richir and Welton. From two different perspectives, both authors thematize the interweaving of lived spatiality and temporality. More precisely, Richir conceives of this interweaving as the relation between temporal affectivity and the transcendence of space in the light of what he calls “phenomenological schematism”. According to Richir (1989, 2006), the reference to spatiality avoids the aporia of a merely formal account of temporality. Welton (2002), on the other hand, stresses the co-originality of spatiality and temporality with regard to the kinesthetic and temporalizing experience of the bodily subject. His argument comes in many ways close to the one I will make in the last chapter of this book. Also, Larrabee (1989, 1994) addresses the problem of the relationship between space and time. Yet, primarily focusing on formalized space and time, her view differs from the one adopted in this book.
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Hua XIX/1, p. 267/(Husserl 2001c, p. 25).
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Hua XIX/1, p. 270/(Husserl 2001c, p. 27).
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Hua III/1, pp. 347–348/(Husserl 1983, pp. 360–362).
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Hua XVI, p. 66/(Husserl 1997, p. 55).
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“But here we must not overlook spatiotemporal configuration […]. It is prior to space and time themselves insofar as these are understood as identical persistent forms within which (as the form of space demands) all objects are spatial, are in their places, having a situation, by virtue of their spatial shape; as object determining, this configuration is “spatial form in situation” – and (as the form of time demands) within which all times are durations, peculiar to the objects as determinations.” (Husserl 1946, p. 337)/(Husserl 1981b, p. 246).
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Hua XVI, p. 65/(Husserl 1997, p. 55).
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Summa, M. (2014). Introduction. In: Spatio-temporal Intertwining. Phaenomenologica, vol 213. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06236-5_1
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