A1 Journal article (refereed)
Epoché as Personal Transformation : On the Similarities between the Philosophical Change of Attitude and Religious Conversions (2019)

Heinämaa, S. (2019). Epoché as Personal Transformation : On the Similarities between the Philosophical Change of Attitude and Religious Conversions. Phänomenologische Forschungen. https://doi.org/10.28937/1000108363

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All authors or editors: Heinämaa, Sara

Journal or series: Phänomenologische Forschungen

ISSN: 0342-8117

Publication year: 2019

Publisher: Felix Meiner Verlag

Publication country: Germany

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.28937/1000108363

Persistent website address: https://meiner.de/epoche-as-personal-transformation.html?previd=14898

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Abstract

This paper argues that the parallel that Husserl draws in The Crisis between the phenomenological epoché and religious conversions is not just a rhetorical device but involves a crucial methodological idea. By pointing to the depth-dimension of living consciousness and its possibilities of transformation, the parallel sheds light upon the ultimate task of the phenomenological- transcendental reduction. To argue for this this claim, the paper first explicates the two principal epoch

Keywords: phenomenology; consciousness (mental properties); crises; transcendentalism (American philosophy)

Free keywords: Husserl, Edmund

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Reporting Year: 2020

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