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NICOLAS DE WARREN “HUSSERL AND THE PROMISE OF TIME:
SUBJECTIVITY IN TRANSCENDENTAL PHENOMENOLOGY”
Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-521-87679-7

Title in the language of publication: РЕЦЕНЗИЯ НА КНИГУ Н. ДЕ ВАРРЕНА
“HUSSERL AND THE PROMISE OF TIME:
SUBJECTIVITY IN TRANSCENDENTAL PHENOMENOLOGY”
Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-521-87679-7
Author: Sergei Nikonenko
Issue: HORIZON. Studies in Phenomenology.
Vol. 6, №1 (2017), 272-280
Language: Russian
Document type: Review
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Abstract
The review considers the clue aspects of the book. De Warren makes the main subject of research Husserl’s idea of subjectivity in relation to the problem of time-consciousness. Husserl’s system itself the author refers to the subjective idealism. Husserl’s subjectivity is treated as the constitution of the world in time-consciousness. De Warren tries to argue that the idea of temporality is important for Husserl’s understanding of the identity of the subject. Conducting a comparative analysis of the ideas of Husserl and Brentano, de Warren shows that Husserl was the first who achieved in phenomenology a clear understanding of the experience. Criticizing the views of Derrida, de Warren argues that Husserl insists on the definition of I as a self-sufficient subject in spite of the importance of the problem of Other. One of the main conclusions of the book is the following: the subject is the history of the constitutional exercise of his own temporality. But it is a matter for further discussions. In the opinion of the reviewer this conclusion seemed to be controversial, but it doesn’t reduce the impression of a fundamental, profound and subtle analysis of the phenomenological ideas of time and subjectivity.

Key words
Phenomenology, Husserl, subjectivity, time, consciousness, understanding.

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