Understanding the present

Urimpression vs. living present

pp. 23-46

in: Lanei Rodemeyer, Intersubjective temporality, Berlin, Springer, 2006

Abstract

Husserl's earliest structure of temporalizing consciousness, discussed prior to 1908, was somewhat different from what he developed later, and it was also more problematic. We will give merely an overview of this earlier temporal structure here, turning primarily to the careful and extremely helpful analyses carried out by John Brough²⁷ and Rudolf Bernet²⁸. Both lay out this early schematic of temporalizing consciousness for us and also describe how Husserl turned to develop a structure that would work better with his system of phenomenology.