On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (1893-1917)

460 Pages·1992·6.967 MB·English

by  Edmund Husserl, John Barnett Brough

ON THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE
CONSCIOUSNESS OF INTERNAL TIME
(1893-1917)
EDMUND HUSSERL
COLLECTED WORKS
EDITOR: RUDOLF BERNET
VOLUME IV
VOLUME I Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and
to a Phenomenological Philosophy
THIRD BOOK: Phenomenology and the
Foundations of the Sciences
VOLUME II Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and
to a Phenomenological Philosophy
FIRST BOOK: General Introduction to a Pure
Phenomenology
VOLUME III Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and
to a Phenomenological Philosophy
SECOND BOOK: Studies in the Phenomenology of
Constitution
VOLUME IV On the Phenomenology of the
Consciousness of Internal Time
(1893-1917)
TRANSLATIONS
PREPARED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
THE HUSSERL-ARCHIVES (LEUVEN)
EDMUND HUSSERL
ON PHENOMENOLOGY
ТНЕ
OF CONSCIOUSNESS
ТНЕ
OF INTERNAL TIME
(1893-1917)
TRANSLATED
ВУ
JOHN BARNETT BROUGH
SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
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Husser1, Edmund. 1859-1938.
[Zur Phiinomeno10gie des inneren Zeitbewusstseins. English]
Оп the phenomeno10gy of the consciousness of interna1 time
(1893-1917) / Edmund Husser1; trans1ated Ьу John Barnett Brough.
- (CoHected works; 4)
р. ст. У.
Trans1ation of: Zur Phiinomeno1ogie des inneren Zeitbewusstseins.
Inc1udes bibIiographica1 references and index.
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DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-3718-8
1. Time. 2. Time perception. 1. Brough, John В. 11. Tit1e.
ш. Series: Husser1, Edmund, 1859-1938. Works. Eng1ish. 1980; У. 4.
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CONTENTS
TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. XI
ON THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE
CONSCIOUSNESS OF INTERNAL TIME
(1893-1917)
A
LECTURES ON THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE
CONSCIOUSNESS OF INTERNAL TIME
FIRST PART: THE LECTURES ON THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF INTERNAL TIME
FROM THE YEAR 1905 3
INTRODUCTION 3
§ 1. The Suspension of Objective Time 4
§ 2. The Question about the "Origin of Time" 9
FIRST SECTION: BRENTANO'S THEORY OF THE ORIGIN OF TIME 11
§ 3. The Original Associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
§ 4. The Acquiring of the Future and Infinite Time 14
§ 5. The Modification of Representations through Temporal Characters 15
§ 6. Criticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
SECOND SECTION: ANALYSIS OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF TIME 21
§ 7. Interpretation of the Grasping of Temporal Objects as Momentary
Grasping and as Enduring Act ............. 21
§ 8. Immanent Temporal Objects and Their Modes of Appearance .. 25
§ 9. The Consciousness of the Appearances of Immanent Objects 27
§ 10. The Continua of the Running-Off Phenomena. The Diagram of
Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
§ 11. Primal Impression and Retentional Modification 30
§ 12. Retention as a Unique Kind of Intentionality 33
VI CONTENTS
§ 13. The Necessity that an Impression Precede Every Retention. Evidence
Pertaining to Retention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
§ 14. Reproduction of Temporal Objects (Secondary Memory) 37
§ 15. Reproduction's Modes of Accomplishment ..... ,39
§ 16. Perception as Presentation in Distinction from Retention and Recol-
lection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 40
§ 17. Perception as the Act That Gives Something Itself in Opposition to
Reproduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 42
§ 18. The Significance of Recollection for the Constitution of the Con-
sciousness of Duration and Succession ............ 44
§ 19. The Difference between Retention and Reproduction (Primary and
Secondary Memory or Phantasy) 47
§ 20. The .. Freedom" of Reproduction 49
§ 21. Levels of Clarity Pertaining to Reproduction 50
§ 22. Evidence of Reproduction ....... 51
§ 23. Coinciding of the Reproduced Now with a Past. Distinction between
Phantasy and Recollection ...... 52
§ 24. Protentions in Recollection .. . . . . . . 54
§ 25. The Double Intentionality of Recollection . . 55
§ 26. Differences between Memory and Expectation 57
§ 27. Memory as Consciousness of Having-Been-Perceived 59
§ 28. Memory and Image-Consciousness. Memory as Positing Reproduction 61
§ 29. Memory of the Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 62
§ 30. The Preservation of the Objective Intention in the Retentional
Modification ....................... 64
§ 31. Primal Impression and the Objective Individual Time-Point . 66
§ 32. The Role of Reproduction in the Constitution of the One Objective
Time .......... . 72
§ 33. Some A Priori Temporal Laws 73
THIRD SECTION: THE LEVELS OF CONSTITUTION PERTAINING TO TIME
AND TEMPORAL OBJECTS ...... . 77
§ 34. Differentiation of the Levels of Constitution 77
§ 35. Differences between Constituted Unities and the Constituting Flow 77
§ 36. The Time-Constituting Flow as Absolute Subjectivity . . . . . . 79
§ 37. Appearances of Transcendent Objects as Constituted Unities 79
§ 38. The Unity of the Flow of Consciousness and the Constitution of
Simultaneity and Succession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
§ 39. The Double Intentionality of Retention and the Constitution of the
Flow of Consciousness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
§ 40. The Constituted Immanent Contents 88
§41. Evidence Pertaining to Immanent Contents. Change and Constancy 89
§42. Impression and Reproduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
§43. Constitution of Physical-Thing Appearances and of Physical Things.
Constituted Apprehensions and Primal Apprehensions 95
§44. Perception of the Internal and Perception of the External 99
§ 45. Constitution of Nontemporal Transcendencies . . . . . 101
CONTENTS VII
SECOND PART: ADDENDA AND SUPPLEMENTS TO THE ANALYSIS OF TIME-
CONSCIOUSNESS FROM THE YEARS 1905-1910 . . . . . . . .. 105
Appendix : Primal Impression and Its Continuum of Modifications 105
Appendix II : Re-presentation and Phantasy. - Impression and Imagi-
nation .................... . 107
Appendix III The Nexus-Intentions of Perception and Memory. - The
Modes of Time-Consciousness . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Appendix IV Recollection and the Constitution of Temporal Objects
and Objective Time .............. . 113
Appendix V Simultaneity of Perception and the Perceived 114
Appendix VI The Grasping of the Absolute Flow. - Perception in a
Fourfold Sense ................ . 116
Appendix VII Constitution of Simultaneity ........... 119
Appendix VIII: The Double Intentionality of the Stream of Conscious-
ness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 120
Appendix IX Primal Consciousness and the Possibility of Reflection 122
Appendix X : Objectivation of Time and of Something Physical in
Time ..................... 124
Appendix XI : Adequate and Inadequate Perception . . . . . . .. 127
Appendix XII : Internal Consciousness and the Grasping of Experiences 130
Appendix XIII: Constitution of Spontaneous Unities as Objects in Imma-
nent Time. - Judgment as Temporal Formation and
Absolute Time-constituting Consciousness . . . . .. 133
B
SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS
SETTING FORTH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROBLEM
I. (ON THE INTRODUCTION OF THE ESSENTIAL DISTINCTION BETWEEN
" FRESH" MEMORY AND "FULL" RECOLLECTION AND ABOUT THE
CHANGE IN CONTENT AND DIFFERENCES IN ApPREHENSION IN THE
CONSCIOUSNESS OF TIME)
(From about 1893 to about 1901) 141
No. I. How Does the Unity of a Process of Change That
Continues for an Extended Period of Time Come to Be
Represented? (Intuition and Re-presentation) 141
No. 2. Evidence Pertaining to the Perception of Time, to Mem-
ory, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
No. 3. (Adequate Expectation) . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
No. 4. Meditation. (Perception, Memory, and Expectation) 159
No. 5. (Enduring Perception as Simple Act) (1898-1900) 160
VIII CONTENTS
No.6. <Brentano and the Question about the Evidence of
Memory) .................... 162
No.7. Intuition, Evidence of Being-Past - Mere Representation
of Being-Past. <Apparent Necessity of Assuming a Change
of Content in Primary Memory) .......... 162
No.8. Adequation by Means of Similarity. - Representation of
an Object and Representation of the Perception of the
Object. <What Is Still Given in Consciousness in" Faded"
Fashion [Functioning] by Means of Similarity as Pictorial
Representant of What Was Previously Perceived) 164
No. 9. Disputation. <The Presentness of Memory, the Being-Past
of What Is Remembered) ............. 166
No. 10. Old and First Observation that an Essential Difference
Exists between Original Consciousness of the Past and
Recollection ................... 169
No. II. Do the Momentary Phases of Perception Referring to the
Elapsed Parts of the Temporal Object Have the Character
of Imagination? ................. 170
No. 12. <The Evidence of Time-Consciousness) ....... 171
No. 13. Perception of Something Temporal and Perception of
Temporality ................... 175
No. 14. Whether the Intuitive Modification by Virtue of Which
Immediate Memory Comes into Being out of Perception
Can Be Understood as a Mere Change in the Presenting
Content. (Brentano may serve simply as an example
here) ...................... 176
No. 15. Time and Memory. (Perception of the Now, Memorial
Perception and Phantasy-Memory. Transferring of the
Differences into the Mode of Apperception) 178
No. 16. <What Can Be Given as Present in One Perception) 182
No. 17. <The Problem of the Consciousness of Modification) 183
No. 18. The Character of Memory. - Representation through Iden-
tity: What Is That Supposed to Mean? ....... 184
II. (THE SUSPENSION OF OBJECTIVE TiME, THE TEMPORAL OBJECT, THE
PHENOMENOLOGY OF OBJECTIVATION AND ITS ApORIAE)
< 1904 and the Beginning of 1905) 193
No. 19. <The Complete Exclusion of All Suppositions with
Respect to Objective Time) (l904) 193
No. 20. <Perception of Succession Presupposes Succession of Per-
ception) (Vacation, 1904) 195
No. 21. <Recognizing on the Basis of the Repeated Re-presenta-
tion of the Same Succession) (1904) 198
No. 22. Is (or How Is) Adequate Memory Possible? (Summer
Vacation, 1904) 202