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Thus far the three orders of existence under discussion have been considered separately. A full account must deal with all of the relations which exist among them, but here we shall confine ourselves to that between our embodied existence and the perceptual world.
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- 1.
Cf. pp. 482 ff. above.
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pp. 484 ff. above.
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This role of perception as a condition or presupposition of movements is quite in line with our view that every function, of any kind whatsoever, presupposes points of application that cannot be supplied except by perception.
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We cannot here discuss the role of kinesthetic experiences in the constitution of space. This problem occupied Husserl’s mind during the last years of his life, as appears from the posthumously published “Grundlegende Untersuchungen zum phänomenologischen Ursprung der Raumlichkeit der Natur” in Philosophical Essays in Memory of Edmund Husserl, ed. Marvin Farber (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1940) and “Notizen zur Raumkonstitution” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. I (1940), pp. 21 ff. and 217 ff. In considering these manuscripts, we must keep in mind that, as Schutz, the editor of the latter, has pointed out (p. 21), they form “a first recording of a great inspiration,” rather than an organized elaboration intended for publication.
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Husserl, Cartesian Meditations, pp. 97 f. and 99 f.
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Husserl, Ideen, §53.
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Ibid., §§27 ff. and Erf u. Urt., §7; cf. also Landgrebe, “The World as a Phenomenological Problem,” pp. 39 ff.
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pp. 482 f. above.
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pp. 485 f. above.
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Cf. pp. 493 ff. above.
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Kurt Koffka, Principles of Gestalt Psychology (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1935), pp. 322 ff.
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Husserl, Cartesian Meditations, pp. 116 f. and 123, “Notizen zur Raumkonstitution,” pp. 24 f.; cf. also Landgrebe, “The World as a Phenomenological Problem,” pp. 45 f.
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James, Essays in Radical Empiricism, p. 86n.
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Cf. Alfred Schutz, “Phenomenology and the Social Sciences” and “Scheler’s Theory of Intersubjectivity and the General Thesis of the Alter Ego” in Collected Papers, vol. I.
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Gurwitsch*, A. (2010). The [Somatic] Ego in the Perceptual World. In: Zaner, R. (eds) The Collected Works of Aron Gurwitsch (1901-1973). Phaenomenologica, vol 194. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3346-8_16
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