ON THE ACT OF PHENOMENOLOGIZING AS A CONCRETIZING KINESTHESIS

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to lay the ground for understanding the correlation between some forms of epochè and the reduction they open to, which corresponds, each time, to a richer type of concreteness. Our approach of phenomenological concreteness is mereological (i.e. within the very terms of the 3rd Logical Investigation). Therefore, after remembering some basic concepts of the husserlian mereology and their possible use within transcendental phenomenology, we try to grasp the specificity of the questions posed by Eugen Fink in his 6 th Cartesian Meditation. We shall expose the parts of the transcendental correlation and then account for the particular role played, “within” this concretion (i.e. that of the transcendental correlation), by this particular “part” which is the phenomenologizing ego (if not concrescent, yet indirectly concretizing). The phenomenologizing ego will be the antecedent “part” or term within this “whole” (lato sensu) consisting on the phenomenologizing kinesthesis. Thereafter, the consequent term of such a kinesthesis corresponds to the whole (this time stricto sensu) of the transcendental correlation. We thus intend to throw some light on the process of phenomenological reduction and set the basis for further investigations regarding the concrete articulation between epochè and reduction.