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Phenomenology for Consciousness Studies
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Course 1 · Module 3

Husserl: Time, Body, and Lifeworld

Explore Husserl's analyses of time-consciousness, the lived body, and the lifeworld, the parts of his work that most shaped later phenomenology and today's embodied approaches to mind. You'll learn how experience holds together past, present, and future; how the body you live differs from the body as a physical object; and why Husserl argued that science rests on a pre-scientific lived world shared with others. These ideas give you concepts for describing time, embodiment, and shared meaning that consciousness research still draws on.

Module objectives

  • Explain Husserl's analysis of time-consciousness in terms of primal impression, retention, and protention
  • Distinguish the lived body (Leib) from the physical body (Körper) and describe the role of kinaesthesis in perception
  • Describe the lifeworld and intersubjectivity as the ground of scientific knowledge

3 lessons · 28 items · 3h 39m

Lessons

  1. Lesson 1 Time, Body, Lifeworld: Time-Consciousness This lesson presents Husserl's account of how we experience time: every present moment holds the just-past (retention) and anticipates the about-to-come (protention). You'll be… 61111h 3m
  2. Lesson 2 Time, Body, Lifeworld: The Lived Body This lesson introduces Husserl's distinction between the lived body (Leib), the body as you live and sense it, and the physical body (Körper), the body as one object among others… 61111h 3m
  3. Lesson 3 Time, Body, Lifeworld: Lifeworld and Others This lesson covers Husserl's late account of the lifeworld, the pre-scientific world of everyday experience, and his argument that the sciences forget the lifeworld they depend… 611111h 33m

Further reading

These are the primary texts behind the ideas in this module. Reading them is optional: explore the ones that match your interests. You don't need them to complete the module, which explains their key ideas. Each entry gives the recommended edition, free options where they exist, and where to buy or borrow it.

  • Husserl, Edmund. (1931) 1960. Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology. Translated by Dorion Cairns. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
  • Husserl, Edmund. (1952) 1989. Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy. Second Book: Studies in the Phenomenology of Constitution. Translated by Richard Rojcewicz and André Schuwer. Collected Works 3. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
  • Husserl, Edmund. (1928) 1991. On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (1893–1917). Translated by John Barnett Brough. Collected Works 4. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
  • Husserl, Edmund. (1936) 1970. The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy. Translated by David Carr. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.