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<p>In this paper, I address Husserl’s theory of intentionality focusing on the problems of attention. I claim that without phenomenological reduction the specific phenomenological content of modalizations – in intentional acts – would be hard to explain. It would be impossible to understand why constant external factors (for instance, variations in the intensity of a stimulus) are accompanied by fluctuations in attention. It would also be impossible to understand the reasons why only the lived experience of causality – which I sharply distinguish from causality in the psychophysical sense of the term – transforms attention into a factor that allows the understanding of a situation by the subject who lives that experience. I claim at last that only the genetic analysis of Husserl’s late Freiburg period, with its distinction between primary and secondary attention, gives a full account of the relation between the thematic object, focused on an intentional attentive act, and the horizon that surrounds the object and gives it its ultimate meaning.</p>
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In this paper, I address Husserl’s theory of intentionality focusing on the problems of attention. I claim that without phenomenological reduction the specific phenomenological content of modalizations – in intentional acts – would be hard to explain. It would be impossible to understand why constant external factors (for instance, variations in the intensity of a stimulus) are accompanied by fluctuations in attention. It would also be impossible to understand the reasons why only the lived experience of causality – which I sharply distinguish from causality in the psychophysical sense of the term – transforms attention into a factor that allows the understanding of a situation by the subject who lives that experience. I claim at last that only the genetic analysis of Husserl’s late Freiburg period, with its distinction between primary and secondary attention, gives a full account of the relation between the thematic object, focused on an intentional attentive act, and the horizon that surrounds the object and gives it its ultimate meaning.

The Husserlian Doctrine about the Modalities of Attention

Phainomenon

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In this paper, I address Husserl’s theory of intentionality focusing on the problems of attention. I claim that without phenomenological reduction the specific...

The Husserlian Doctrine about the Modalities of Attention

Published Online: Oct 08, 2022

Page range: 69 - 84

Received: Feb 01, 2015

Accepted: Sep 01, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2022-0005

Keywords
Attention, Horizon, Static and genetic phenomenology, Marginal consciousness

© 2022 Carlos Morujão, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

The Husserlian Doctrine about the Modalities of Attention

Published Online: Oct 08, 2022

Page range: 69 - 84

Received: Feb 01, 2015

Accepted: Sep 01, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2022-0005

KeywordsAttention, Horizon, Static and genetic phenomenology, Marginal consciousness

© 2022 Carlos Morujão, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Attention, Horizon, Static and genetic phenomenology, Marginal consciousness