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Filip Mattens Editor Meaning and Language: Phenomenological Perspectives 187 (cid:5)(cid:6)(cid:0)(cid:4) MEANINGANDLANGUAGE:PHENOMENOLOGICALPERSPECTIVES PHAENOMENOLOGICA SERIESFOUNDEDBYH.L.VANBREDAANDPUBLISHED UNDERTHEAUSPICESOFTHEHUSSERL-ARCHIVES 187 FILIP MATTENS (ed.) MEANING AND LANGUAGE: PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES EditorialBoard: Director:U.Melle(Husserl-Archief,Leuven)Members:R.Bernet(Husserl-Archief, Leuven)R.Breeur(Husserl-Archief,Leuven)S.IJsseling(Husserl-Archief,Leu- ven) H. Leonardy (Centre d’études phénoménologiques, Louvain-la-Neuve) D. Lories(CEP/ISP/CollègeDésiréMercier,Louvain-la-Neuve)J.Taminiaux(Centre d’étudesphénoménologiques,Louvain-la-Neuve)R.Visker(CatholicUniversity Leuven,Leuven) AdvisoryBoard: R.Bernasconi(MemphisStateUniversity),D.Carr(EmoryUniversity,Atlanta), E.S.Casey(StateUniversityofNewYorkatStonyBrook),R.Cobb-Stevens(Boston College),J.F.Courtine(Archives-Husserl,Paris),F.Dastur(UniversitédeParisXX), K.Düsing(Husserl-Archiv,Köln),J.Hart(IndianaUniversity,Bloomington),K. Held(BergischeUniversitätWuppertal),K.E.Kaehler(Husserl-Archiv,Köln),D. Lohmar(Husserl-Archiv,Köln),W.R.McKenna(MiamiUniversity,Oxford,USA), J.N.Mohanty(TempleUniversity,Philadelphia),E.W.Orth(UniversitätTrier), C.Sini(UniversitàdegliStudidiMilano),R.Sokolowski(CatholicUniversityof America,WashingtonD.C.),B.Waldenfels(Ruhr-Universität,Bochum) MEANING AND LANGUAGE: PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES edited by FILIP MATTENS Husserl-Archives,Leuven LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2008922893 ISBN978-1-4020-8330-3(HB) ISBN978-1-4020-8331-0(e-book) PublishedbySpringer, P.O.Box17,3300AADordrecht,TheNetherlands. www.springer.com Printedonacid-freepaper TypesetbyC.IernawithLATEX 2εin10ptGaramond AllRightsReserved (cid:1)c 2008Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyform orbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recordingorotherwise, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthePublisher,withtheexceptionofanymaterialsupplied specificallyforthepurposeofbeingenteredandexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveuse bythepurchaserofthework. Contents IntroductoryRemarks: NewAspectsofLanguageinHusserl’sThought F.Mattens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix I Aspects of Language and Meaning in Husserl 1 1 DasRätseldesAusdrucks: HusserlsZeichen-undAusdruckslehreindenManuskriptenfür dieNeufassungderVI.LogischenUntersuchung U.Melle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 AnUnpleasantbutFelicitousAmbiguity: SinnandBedeutunginHusserl’sRevisionsoftheLogicalInvesti- gations P.Vandevelde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 3 Husserl’sCritiqueofDoubleJudgments C.Ierna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 4 NoematicSinn: Generalmeaning-functionorpropositionalcontent? C.Beyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 5 HusserlstypisierendeApperzeptionunddiePhänomenologie dynamischerIntentionalität J.D.Balle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 v vi MeaningandLanguage:PhenomenologicalPerspectives 6 DeiktischeIdeationen: ÜberdiemitdenWörter„dies“und„so“vollziehbarenokkasio- nellenBezugnahmenaufidealeGegenständlichkeiten R.Sowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 II Reflections on the Constitutive Role of Language for Experience and Thought 125 7 DieSyntaxderErfahrung: Zu den sachhaltigen Voraussetzungen des Logischen und des Sprachlichen V.DePalma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 8 OntheOriginofthe“Language”ofFormalMathematics: AnIntentional-HistoricalInvestigationoftheDiscoveryofthe Formal B.Hopkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 9 DenkenohneSprache? ZurPhänomenologiealternativerRepräsentations-Systemeko- gnitiverInhaltebeimMenschenundanderenPrimaten D.Lohmar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 10 Idon’thavetheWords: ConsideringLanguage(andthelackthereof)throughthePheno- menologicalParadigmsofTemporalityandCorporeality L.M.Rodemeyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 III Phenomenology and its Language 213 11 LinguisticPhenomenology? J.Benoist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 12 Laphénoménalisationetsonexpression: Versl’originephénoménologiquedulangage D.Popa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 13 TheNecessityofCommunicatingPhenomenologicalInsights– anditsDifficulties D.R.Koukal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 CONTENTS vii 14 IntroducingTerms: PhilosophicalVocabulary,NeologismsandtheTemporalAspect ofMeaning F.Mattens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 Introductory Remarks: New Aspects of Language in Husserl’s Thought Filip Mattens Newthoughtsdemandnewwords.ThisisthemessageofKant’sIntroduc- tiontohissecondCritique.Thismessage,however,isnotanexpression ofphilosophicalcourageorcreativity.Rather,itwasinspiredbytheneed Kant felt to defend himself against the accusation of introducing a new languagetocompensateforalackoforiginalthinking.Essentially,thisre- proachsuggeststhatKant’svocabularyveilsthefactthathislanguagedoes notproperlyplaceitselfintheserviceofhisthinking.Similarreproaches havebeenaddressed,repeatedly,tothedisciplesofphenomenologicalphi- losophyingeneral;butalsotoHusserl,andnotinfrequentlyfromwithin hisownsphereofinfluence.Asacaseinpoint,onecanconsiderErnst Tugendhat’simputationofHusserl’stalkofGegenständlichkeitenandof theintroductionofthenotionNoema.Ratherthanbeingtakenasastep forwardinhisthinking,suchcoinagesarerejectedasobstinatelinguisticat- temptstoimmunizewhateverdoesn’tfitintohisinitialoriginalschemeof thought.Thesetermsthemselves,Tugendhatmaintains,areanexpression ofembarrassment.1 The possibility of such imputations itself rests on the putative sub- servienceoflanguagetothought.Accusationsofverbalism,justlikethe imputationofterminologicalbogussolutionsforphilosophicalproblems, implicitly assume that language not only runs the risk of, but likewise 1ErnstTugendhat,“PhänomenologieundSprachanalyse”,inPhilosophischeAufsätze (Frankfurta.M.:Suhrkamp,1992),p.8. ix x MeaningandLanguage:PhenomenologicalPerspectives offersanopportunitytoleadoneawayfromthinking.Inthefaceofthis temptation,the‘externalityoflanguagetothought’cannotremainamere noncommittalthesisbasedontheoreticalgrounds,butinevitablybecomes a crucial methodological issue for a philosophy that wishes to employ rigorousdescriptionscientifically.Toacertainextent,Husserlwaswell awareofthishimself,aswhenhedrewananalogybetweenthoughtless operation with inauthentic number presentations and the way we use language.Thereis,however,adecisivedifference,adifferenceneglected bytheideaofanideallanguage.Namely,whereasnumbersignspermit ustoworkwiththeutmostprecision,farbeyondournaturalcapacityof thought,linguisticexpressionsneedtobeadjustedasmuchaspossibleto thecontentofouractualthinking.Inthisrespect,onemightsay,philo- sophicalwritingismorelikedrawing;asonepencils,onemayapproach whatonehasinmindwithouteverreachingapointwhereprecisionnatu- rallycoincideswithcompletion.Paradoxically,theincompleteness,and evenmoreso,thesearchforprecisionthatittriggers,stimulatesandguides thecourseoffurtherthinking.Thislackofcompletenessliesattheorigin ofphilosophers’propensitiestocoinnewterms.Likewise,thewillingness toreformulatetheirthoughtshasitsorigininthefactthatproperthinking isrequiredtodoso.Inordertohighlighttheinterplaybetweenlanguage andoriginalthinking,IwouldliketoavailmyselfofaninsightofJames Dodd:“Theinterestindescription,bothphilosophicalandmundane,is itspotentialtoyieldconcepts,nottofixconcepts”.1 Theideathatlanguageisnotjustoneobjectofphilosophicalreflection amongothershaslongbecomeacommonplaceintwentiethcenturyphi- losophy.Languagehascometobeunderstoodasa‘conditionofpossibility’ forphilosophicalthinkingandhasbeenscrutinizedandassessedinthat capacity.Inthelightoftheseachievements,theoriginofthephenomeno- logicaltraditionissituatedinaneraofpre-criticalnaivety,insofarasthe positionoflanguageinphilosophyisconcerned. GiventhepremisesthatdominateHusserl’sviewonlanguageingen- eral, phenomenology may indeed not be the first approach one thinks 1Fromthefirst“HusserlMemorialLecture”deliveredbyJamesDoddattheHusserl- ArchivesLeuven,onMarch24th,2004.

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