The passive syntheses of time

Philip Turetzky

pp. 177-202

in: Yuval Dolev, Michael Roubach (eds), Cosmological and psychological time, Berlin, Springer, 2016

Abstract

In his later work Husserl explored a genetic phenomenology which underpinned the static phenomenology of his earlier work. Genetic phenomenology explored the genesis of the possibility of judgments as arising out of the fundamental horizon of temporality occurring within primary passivity. This project was taken up by Deleuze in the exploration of a more comprehensive and detailed genesis of individuation and generic difference. In doing so Deleuze described three passive syntheses of time which he presents in a regressive order from conditioned to condition. However, Deleuze's exposition of the most fundamental of especially the third passive synthesis of time is notoriously under described. This essay presents an experimental description which attempts, by reversing the order of exposition of the three syntheses and describing them in the order of genesis, rather than the order of the regress of conditions, to produce a more complete explication of the third passive synthesis and so to account for its genetic dynamism.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Deleuze Gilles