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The objective of this essay is to explore the relationship between Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology and Merleau-Ponty’s existential phenomenology with respect to the problem of solipsism. We will try to demonstrate that if we remain faithful to Husserl’s own conception of the scope of phenomenology, we will inevitably be led to an existential phenomenology and to recognise the impossibility of a complete reduction.
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Wait, E.C. (1999). How to Wake up from Descartes’ Dream or the Impossibility of a Complete Reduction. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Life — The Outburst of Life in the Human Sphere. Analecta Husserliana, vol 60. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2083-0_26
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