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The Genesis of Knowledge and the Foundation of the Sciences

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The Sense of Things

Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana ((ANHU,volume 118))

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In this chapter, I deepen the account of the genesis of knowledge through Husserl’s archaeological investigations, which ultimately allow us to uncover the pre-categorial level analyzed, in a particular way, in his discussions of the life world.

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  1. 1.

    Edmund Husserl, Ms. A VII 21, Lebenswelt, ihr Apriori (1933).

  2. 2.

    Edmund Husserl, Ms. BI 21, Wissenschaft und Leben. Weg in die Philosophie der Praxis her (1918–1931).

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    I develop such an argument in my book Il senso del sacro. Dall’arcaicità alla desacralizzazione [The Sense of the Sacred: From the Archaic to Desacralization], (Rome: Castelvecchi, 2014).

  4. 4.

    Edmund Husserl, Ms. Trans. A VII 20, “Möglichkeit der Ontologie (1930)”, transcribed by M. Biemel, page 66.

  5. 5.

    Edmund Hussserl, Ms. Trans. B I 27, 1) Aufgabe der Klärung; 2) Unzugänglichkeit der positive Wissenschaften: Idee der Wissenschaft (1924–1926).

  6. 6.

    Edmund Husserl, Ms. trans. B I 33, “Beilage zu den Vormeditationen: Warum selbst exacte positive Wissenschaft zu keiner Endgültigkeit führen können. Kritik der positive Wissenschaft. Weg III (1922–1923)”.

  7. 7.

    See EP I and EP II.

  8. 8.

    Edmund Husserl, Ms. trans. B I 33, op. cit.

  9. 9.

    Edmund Husserl, Ms. Trans. A VII 14, “Transzendentale Aesthetik (1920–1926), “transcribed by C. Schröder.

  10. 10.

    Ibid., 84.

  11. 11.

    Edmund Husserl, Ding und Raum. Vorlesungen 1907 (Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973). English translation: Thing and Space, trans. and ed. by Richard Rojcewicz, (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997).

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Bello, A.A. (2015). The Genesis of Knowledge and the Foundation of the Sciences. In: The Sense of Things. Analecta Husserliana, vol 118. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15395-7_4

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