Time and Spatial Models: Temporality in Husserl

Abstract

RECENT TREATMENTS OF TIME IN HUSSERL PURPORT TO GIVE ANACCOUNT OF THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF WHAT HUSSERLTERMS INNER TIME-CONSCIOUSNESS, THE IMMANENT TEMPORALITYTHAT IS THE PRIMAL CONSTITUTIVE SOURCE OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE.A MAJOR DIFFICULTY WITH THESE PRESENTATIONS OF HUSSERL'STIME-THEORY IS THAT THEY CONTINUE TO USE THEORETICALLYREDUCTIONIST MODELS FOR TIME, BASED ON A SENSE OF "FLOW"THAT IS DRAWN FROM OBJECTIVE-PHYSICAL SPACE AND OBJECTSEXTENDED THROUGH SUCH SPACE. SUCH TREATMENTS FAIL TOCAPTURE THE VERY HEART OF THE FLOWING-PROCESSING ITSELF. TOCLARIFY THIS POINT, THIS PAPER INVESTIGATES THE TWO-FOLDDESCRIPTION OF INNER TIME-CONSCIOUSNESS THAT GIVES THEPRIMARY SPATIAL MODEL OF FLOW--IN FACT, OF TWO INTERSECTINGFLOWS. NEXT, IT CONSIDERS THE MANNER IN WHICH ASPECTS OFIMMANENT TEMPORALITY ARE OVERLOOKED IN THIS SPATIAL MODEL.FINALLY, ANOTHER SPATIAL MODEL IS PROPOSED, ONE THAT CANHARNESS THE COMPLEXITY OF HUSSERL'S THEORY OF IMMANENTTEMPORALITY AND EXPLAIN THE VERY SOURCE OF PROCESS ASPROCESSING.