<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper explores the role of appearance in Husserl’s theory of knowledge, stressing its importance and its necessity. Far from being an accident that clarity, evidence or reality can evacuate, appearance is constitutive of our experience and of our approach of its grounding principles. In the light of this idea of appearance, the contingent aspects of our lived experience become an expression of the sense-formation process supporting and transforming it. This paper is a contribution to a larger discussion – including, among others, Eugen Fink, Michel Henry and Jean-Paul Sartre – about the relationship between phenomenology and ontology, about the nature of our knowledge and our experience of freedom.</p></abstract>

This paper explores the role of appearance in Husserl’s theory of knowledge, stressing its importance and its necessity. Far from being an accident that clarity, evidence or reality can evacuate, appearance is constitutive of our experience and of our approach of its grounding principles. In the light of this idea of appearance, the contingent aspects of our lived experience become an expression of the sense-formation process supporting and transforming it. This paper is a contribution to a larger discussion – including, among others, Eugen Fink, Michel Henry and Jean-Paul Sartre – about the relationship between phenomenology and ontology, about the nature of our knowledge and our experience of freedom.

The Veil of Appearance Phenomenological Inquiries on Husserlian Methodology

Phainomenon

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This paper explores the role of appearance in Husserl’s theory of knowledge, stressing its importance and its necessity. Far from being an accident that...

The Veil of Appearance Phenomenological Inquiries on Husserlian Methodology

Published Online: Oct 14, 2021

Page range: 53 - 67

Received: May 23, 2018

Accepted: Jun 12, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2018-0003

Keywords
Intentionality, Appearance, Finitude, Experience, Husserl, Fink, Henry

© 2018 Delia Popa, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Veil of Appearance Phenomenological Inquiries on Husserlian Methodology

Published Online: Oct 14, 2021

Page range: 53 - 67

Received: May 23, 2018

Accepted: Jun 12, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2018-0003

KeywordsIntentionality, Appearance, Finitude, Experience, Husserl, Fink, Henry

© 2018 Delia Popa, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Intentionality, Appearance, Finitude, Experience, Husserl, Fink, Henry