To browse Academia. The paper explores the intersection of phenomenology and eros, presenting eros both as a domain for phenomenological inquiry and as a foundational element of phenomenology itself. It argues for a comprehensive understanding of phenomenology as a continuous self-grounding that encompasses various domains of experience, highlighting the complexity of human finitude in relation to infinity as facilitated by eros.
The author discusses the intricate relationship between the body, consciousness, and the world, emphasizing that neither objectivism nor subjectivism can fully encapsulate human experience. Ultimately, the paper posits that the erotic experience embodies a reciprocal relationship, which must be integral to phenomenological investigation. Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes.
Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But, he adds: in bodies. Phenomenology is the study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the firstperson point of view. The central structure of an experience is its intentionality, its being directed toward something, as it is an experience of or about some object.
An experience is directed toward an object by virtue of its content or meaning which represents the object together with appropriate enabling conditions. Phenomenology as a discipline is distinct from but related to other key disciplines in philosophy, such as ontology, epistemology, logic, and ethics.
Phenomenology has been practiced in various guises for centuries, but it came into its own in the early 20th century in the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and others. Phenomenological issues of intentionality, consciousness, qualia, and first-person perspective have been prominent in recent philosophy of mind.
