Conclusion
The crisis of the sciences of which Husserl wrote can be formulated as a dichotomy: scientific objectivity alienated from life or the relativity of subjective engagement. The symmetry view on objectivity overcomes this dichotomy and shows how objectivity and engagement are two sides of the same coin. The symmetry view argues for an objectivity with a human face without handing it over to a radical scepticism or relativism. Every objectivity is the transcendent, sedimentated testimony of an immanent engagement.
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Edmund Husserl, Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy (Northwestern University Press, 1970).
Edmund Husserl, Logical Investigations, Volume 1 and Volume 2 (New Ed edition, Routledge, 2001).
Jacques Derrida, Edmund Husserl’s Origin of Geometry: An Introduction, John Leavey (trans.) (Reprint edition, University of Nebraska Press, 1989). Husserl’s text The Origin of Geometry (translated by David Carr) is included as appendix.
Jean Petitot, “Pour un platonisme transcendantal”, L’objectivité mathématique. Platonisme et structures formelles, M. Panza and J.-M. Salanskis (eds.) (Paris: Masson, 1995), pp. 147–178.
For a general account of the mathematical concept of symmetry, we like to refer to the most inspiring writings of H. Weyl: The classical groups, their invariants and representations, Princeton University Press, 1946. Symmetry, reprint edition: Princeton University Press, 1983.
Edmund Husserl, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: Studies in Phenomenology of the Constitution, R. Rojcewics and A. Schuwer (eds.) (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990).
Jacques Derrida, Edmund Husserl’s Origin of Geometry: An Introduction, John Leavey (trans.) (Reprint edition, University of Nebraska Press, 1989), p. 163.
Ibid., p. 163.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 164.
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Kolen, F. (2005). An Interpertation of Husserl’s Concept of Constitution in Terms of Symmetry. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of the Logos. Book One. Analecta Husserliana, vol 88. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3680-9_15
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