The impossibility of a phenomenological constitution of the other subject

pp. 103-119

in: Christopher Macann, Presence and coincidence, Berlin, Springer, 1991

Abstract

In the immediately preceding section we undertook a transposition of the transcendental coincidence of consciousness with itself into an ontological coincidence of the self with its body and this with a view to laying the ground for an original being-in-the-world of human being and, in accordance therewith, an original, ontological flux which would be nothing other than the process by which human being temporalizes itself in the very course of existing. This transposition was undertaken in accordance with the general rubric of a transformation of the doctrine of presence into a complementary doctrine of coincidence. It only remains to see whether we can effect the same transformation with regard to the problematic of the other.