Concept
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Intersubjectivity
Concept · 2 readings
Intersubjectivity is the involvement of distinct subjects in the experience of a common world. Shared objects and coexistence do not imply identical access, agreement or justified norms.
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Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: experience, embodiment and a shared world · Lesson 4 of 9
How can another person be given to me?
Husserl explains how another person is given through the lived body, pairing and appresentation. The lesson follows his account without treating another person’s experience as something one possesses or copies.
Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: experience, embodiment and a shared world · Lesson 8 of 9
Sharing a world without sharing one perspective
Merleau-Ponty describes meeting others in a shared bodily and cultural world, and the lesson compares his account with Husserl’s. Sharing an object or an exchange, it shows, is not the same as sharing access, agreement or justified belief.
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Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: experience, embodiment and a shared world
Follow Husserl and Merleau-Ponty from the appearance of a familiar thing to time, bodily skill, expression and other people. Test what their descriptions establish, where their methods differ and what still needs evidence or an ethical argument.