Some noetico-noematic analyses of action and practical life

Lester Embree

pp. 157-210

in: John Drummond, Lester Embree (eds), The phenomenology of the noema, Deventer, Kluwer, 1992

Abstract

Action and practical life and, for that matter, evaluation have received little attention in the literature of constitutive phenomenology thus far. This seems part of the intellectualism of modern philosophy in which Husserl and his followers and especially most of his interpreters have participated. Thus, recent discussions of the noema have emphasized hyletic data, sense, manners of givenness, thinking, and signification. Nevertheless, that there is a place for the description and justification of evaluation and action in phenomenology is clear at least as early as the discussion of normative and practical disciplines in the early chapters of the "Prolegomena" of the Logical Investigations (1900–1901). The philosophical significance of these themes for philosophical ethics and politics is obvious.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund