Sense and icon: The problem of Sinngebung in Levinas and Marion

From: Philosophy Today | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

It is probably no overstatement to say that phenomenology, in the Husserlian tradition, is ultimately concerned with the constitution of sense. The problematic of the constitution of sense, to put it simply, interrogates the birth of sense and the conditions of that creative act.' In the Third Book of the Ideen, Husserl writes that phenomenology

is the science of `origins,' of the 'mothers' of all cognition; and it is the maternal ground of all philosophical method: to this ground and to the work in it, everything leads back.2

It is important to note that this conception of phenomenology ...

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