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Making Sense of Husserl’s Notion of Teleology: Normativity, Reason, Progress and Phenomenology as ‘Critique from Within’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2017

Andreea Smaranda Aldea
Andreea Smaranda Aldea*
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Dartmouth College, USAAndreea.S.Aldea@dartmouth.edu
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Abstract

The paper examines Husserl’s notion of teleology through the lens of necessity and argues that there are two senses of teleology—historical and transcendental—at work in the task of phenomenology, especially as Husserl comes to conceive it in the Crisis. To understand not only how these two senses are related but also how their relationship shapes Husserl’s notions of normativity, reason, and progress, I argue that we must look closely at phenomenology as a distinctive form of critique, namely critique ‘from within’. What emerges is a philosophical stance that is fundamentally ambiguous: at once historical and transcendental-eidetic. This productive notion of ambiguity, I contend, differentiates Husserl’s conceptions of normativity, reason and progress from their Enlightenment guises.

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Hegel Bulletin , Volume 38 , Special Issue 1: Hegel and Phenomenology , May 2017 , pp. 104 - 128
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© The Hegel Society of Great Britain 2017 

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