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Retention

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Retention concerns what has just passed within a temporal experience, rather than recollection or a lingering sensation.

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Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: experience, embodiment and a shared world · Lesson 3 of 9
How can a passing moment belong to a whole?
Husserl distinguishes retention of what has just passed from protention of what is coming, and both from recollection, which is another event. The lesson assesses what his description can establish about the unity of temporal experience.

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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.