Abstract
Traditionally the freedom of speech is associated with either the negative liberty or the positive opportunity to speak, or more widely; to express oneself in public. A phenomenological account of this political principle may go “back to the things themselves” in order to determine the essential features of experiencing the expression of the other as meaningful, or of how meaning is constituted in our own speech and writing. It would give and has already given, as I will show in this paper, an original account of the positive opportunity; of the “I can” of expression. But, it would be misleading to claim that phenomenology is restricted to a passive description of the exercise and violation of a certain norm.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Barbaras, R. 2004 [1991]. The Being of the Phenomenon – Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology (trans: Toadvine, Tand Lawlor, L.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Derrida, J. 1973, [1967]. Speech and phenomenon – And Other Essays on Husserl’s Theory of Signs (trans: Allison, D.B.). Evaston: Northwestern University Press.
Husserl, E. 1970a [1900]. Logical Investigations (trans: Findlay, J.N.). New York: Humanities Press.
Husserl, E. 1970b. The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy, ed. David Carr, Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
Husserl, E. 1970c. The Origin of Geometry in The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy, ed. David Carr, Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
Husserl, E. 1988. Cartesian Meditations: an Introduction to Phenomenology (trans: Cairns, D.). Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Husserl, E. 1989. Ideas pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and a Phenomenological Philosophy. Second Book (Ideas II). (trans: Rojcewicz R. and Schuwer, A.). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.
Lawlor, L. 2002. Derrida and Husserl – The Basic Problem of Phenomenology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Merleau-Ponty, M. 1964. The primacy of perception and other essays on phenomenological psychology, the philosophy of art, history and politics, ed. James M. Edie, Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
Merleau-Ponty, M. 1958, [1945]. Phenomenology of Perception (trans: Smith, C.). New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Merleau-Ponty, M. 1964. Signs (trans: McCleary, R.C.). Evaston: Northwestern University Press.
Steinbock, A. 1994. The new “Crisis” contribution: A supplementary edition of edmund husserl’s crisis texts. Review of Metaphysic 47:557–584.
Steinbock, A.J. 1995. Home and Beyond. Generative Phenomenology after Husserl. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
Steinbock, A. 1998. Temporality and the point: the origins and crisis of continental philosophy, In Self-awareness, Temporality, and Alterity – Central Topics in Phenomenology, ed. D. Zahavi, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academics.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Servan, J. (2011). Optimality in Virtual Space – The Generation of Diacritic Potential Through Language. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Transcendentalism Overturned. Analecta Husserliana, vol 108. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0624-8_29
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0624-8_29
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-94-007-0623-1
Online ISBN: 978-94-007-0624-8
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and LawPhilosophy and Religion (R0)