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In this paper, I argue that Husserl ’s and Heidegger ’s views on the social embeddedness of human existence in everyday life are actually much closer than is commonly recognised. In contrast to Husserl ’s emphasis on the reflective individuality of the transcendental ego as a requirement of philosophical methodology, his analyses of everyday life, for instance in his Ideas II, show that he is well aware that personal life is essentially embedded in historical, cultural and social frameworks that provide the background for individuals beliefs, attitudes and actions. This parallels in important ways Heidegger ’s analysis of Dasein ’s essential character of ‘Being-with’ and of the ‘Man’ (the ‘everybody’) as the predominant mode of daily life. Both also stress the ability of persons or Dasein to step back and critically reflect on these default frameworks, thereby appropriating or modifying them as one’s own.
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German edition: Husserl 1976.
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German edition: Husserl 1952.
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German edition: Heidegger 1977.
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German edition: Husserl 1950.
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Cited with German page reference, which is included in the margins of the translation.
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See, for instance: “The world becomes a human world, divided into communities, the communities [each] related to a historical tradition that belongs essentially to it, in which a common culture arose that is accessible to every one of them and as a whole is identifiable, commonly valid for all” (Husserl 1952: 32).
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The ‘Kaizo’ articles were a series of articles Husserl composed in 1922 and 1923 for publication in the Japanese journal Kaizo. See Husserl 1989b: 3–121 (‘Fünf Aufsätze über Erneuerung’).
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German edition: Husserl 1954.
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Husserl 1989a.
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Nenon, T. (2015). Husserl and Heidegger on the Social Dimensions of the Life-World. In: Učník, Ľ., Chvatík, I., Williams, A. (eds) The Phenomenological Critique of Mathematisation and the Question of Responsibility. Contributions To Phenomenology, vol 76. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09828-9_11
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