A First Day of Realism: Hans Blumenberg and the Origin of the Phenomenological Correlation
Keywords
No Thumbnail Available
Authors
Issue Date
2022-06-01
Language
en
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Abstract
This article discusses Hans Blumenberg’s theory of the lifeworld and his concept of
the absolutism of reality to account for the origin of transcendental consciousness and
the phenomenological correlation between subject and world. Drawing on the work
of Husserl and Meillassoux, I first argue that phenomenology has failed to address this
origin: due to its idealist assumptions that always presuppose consciousness, it has
never properly reflected on the conditions that brought about this world-constituting
consciousness itself. Based on the writings of Blumenberg, I propose a revision of the
phenomenological framework which approaches consciousness and the subject-world
correlation as a historical result of the human condition. I first show how Blumenberg
develops a ‘genetic method’ to legitimate his speculative account of the origin of
consciousness and this is followed with an analysis of Blumenberg’s reinterpretation
of Husserl’s notion of the lifeworld and his own idea of an absolutism of reality.
Description
Citation
Supervisor
Faculty
Faculteit der Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen