Generative experience of time

Klaus Held

pp. 167-186

in: John Brough, Lester Embree (eds), The many faces of time, Berlin, Springer, 2000

Abstract

In¹ this century the attempt has been undertaken to make progress with the longstanding problem of time by posing the question as to how time is originally experienced. I would like to take up anew this question, one posed above all by the first thinkers of phenomenology, Husserl and Heidegger. In my opinion a phenomenological theory of time can only then have a claim to binding knowledge when it arises out of an original experience of time. An original experience of time I understand as that experience through which we as human beings first notice that there is such a thing as "time," an experience which may thus possibly occasion us to form the concept "time."

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Heidegger Martin