The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness

An exploration of the terrain of consciousness in the light of its temporality from the father of phenomenology. The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness is a translation of Edmund Husserl’s Vorlesungen zur Phänomenologie des inneren Zeitbewußtseins . The first part of the book was originally presented as a lecture course at the University of Göttingen in the winter semester of 1904–1905, while the second part is based on additional supplementary lectures that he gave between 1905 and 1910. The pervading theme of these essays and lectures is the temporal constitution of a pure datum of sensation and the self-constitution of “phenomenological time” which underlies such a constitution. Husserl identifies two categories of temporality—retention and protention—and outlines how temporality provides the form for perception, phantasy, imagination, memory, and recollection. He demonstrates a distinction between cosmic and phenomenological time and explores the relevance of phenomenological time for the constitution of temporal objects. The ideas Husserl developed here are explored further in his Ideas and were pursued until the end of his philosophical career. “As an addition to the small body of Husserl’s writings now available in English (Ideas 1931; Meditations, 1960), this book is essential to even a small collection of source works on contemporary philosophy.” — Choice Part One -- The Lectures On Internal Time-consciousness From The Year 1905 -- Introduction -- Section One: Bretano's Theory Concerning The Origin Of Time -- Section Two: The Analysis Of Time-consciousness -- Section Three: The Levels Of Constitution Of Time And Temporal Objects -- Part Two -- Addenda And Supplements To The Analysis Of Time-consciousness From The Years 1905-1910 -- Appendix I: Primal Impression And Its Continuum Of Modifications -- Appendix Ii: Presentification And Phantasy-impression And Imagination -- Appendix Iii: The Correlational Intentions Of Perception And Memory -- The Modes Of Time-consciousness -- Appendix Iv: Recollection And The Constitution Of Temporal Objects And Objective Time -- Appendix V: The Simultaneity Of Perception And The Perceived -- Appendix Vi: Comprehension Of The Absolute Flux -- Perception In The Fourfold Sense -- Appendix Vii: The Constitution Of Simultaneity -- Appendix Viii: The Double Intentionality Of The Stream Of Consciousness -- Appendix Ix: Primal Consciousness And The Possibility Of Reflection -- Appendix X: The Objectivation Of Time And Of The Material In Time -- Appendix Xi: Adequate And Inadequate Perception -- Appendix Xii: Internal Consciousness And The Comprehension Of Lived Experiences -- Appendix Xiii: The Constitution Of Spotaneous Unities As Immanent Temporal Objects -- Judgment As A Temporal Form And Absolute Time-constituting Consciousness. Edited By Martin Heidegger. Translated By James S. Churchill. Introd. By Calvin O. Schrag. Translation Of Vorlesungen Zur Phänomenologie Des Innern Zeitbewusstseins. Includes Bibliographical References.

The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness is a translation of Edmund Husserl's Vorlesungen zur Phänomenologie des inneren Zeitbewußtseins. The first part of the book was originally presented as a lecture course at the University of Göttingen in the winter semester of 1904–1905, while the second part is based on additional supplementary lectures that he gave between 1905 and 1910. In these essays and lectures, Husserl explores the terrain of consciousness in light of its temporality. He identifies two categories of temporality—retention and protention—and outlines how temporality provides the form for perception, phantasy, imagination, memory, and recollection. He demonstrates a distinction between cosmic and phenomenological time and explores the relevance of phenomenological time for the constitution of temporal objects. The ideas Husserl developed here are explored further in his Ideas and were pursued until the end of his philosophical career.

The ideas presented in The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness were origionally presented as lectures that were given between 1904-1910 during which Husserl explored the terrain of consciousness in light of its temporality.