IngentaConnect The Fate of Phenomenology in Deconstruction: Derrida and Husserl*

Author: Schwab, Martin¹

Source: Inquiry, Volume 49, Number 4, August 2006 , pp. 353-379(27)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

This paper begins by presenting Lawlor's Derrida and Husserl: The Basic Problems of Philosophy, an account of how deconstruction emerges as Derrida discusses Husserl's phenomenology (I.). It then determines the genre of Lawlor's intellectual history. Lawlor writes a continuist narrative history of ideas and concepts (II.). In the subsequent main section the paper uses Lawlor's material to take a position in the debate between Husserl and Derrida (III.). This is done in three parts. The first part reconstructs Derrida's version of Husserlian time consciousness (III. 1). The second part proposes an alternative and revisionist reading of Husserl's theory of internal temporality. On this reading Husserl is a process theoretician of consciousness (III. 2). The third part juxtaposes Husserl and Derrida's critical views (III. 3), arguing that Husserl's fluxive theory of time consciousness does not suffer from the problems Derrida finds in his Husserl. The final section (IV.) points to relativizing consequences for deconstruction and identifies programmatic consequences for phenomenology.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/00201740600831463

Affiliations: 1: University of California‐Irvine

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