TY - CHAP
T1 - Anxiety and Identity
T2 - Beyond Husserl and Heidegger
AU - Senderowicz, Yaron
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2011, Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In this paper I claim that the individualizing role that Heidegger assigned to ‘anxiety’ reveals his attempt to resolve a fundamental problem related to Husserl’s transcendental ‘I.’ I show that Husserl’s problem consists in the impossibility of distinguishing between the individual essence of a particular pure ego and the eidos ‘pure ego’ on the basis of the available phenomenological procedures. I suggest that anxiety, attests to this failure. Yet in contrast to the pure ‘I,’ anxiety is not a representation of a self. Rather, it is a practical mode of self-awareness rooted in care that uncovers one’s own authentic ability-to-be. Nevertheless, I clarify why, given the conceptual background that Husserl and Heidegger share, the appeal to anxiety and authentic ability-to-be cannot escape the need to posit a representation of the self that has features similar to those of the pure ‘I.’
AB - In this paper I claim that the individualizing role that Heidegger assigned to ‘anxiety’ reveals his attempt to resolve a fundamental problem related to Husserl’s transcendental ‘I.’ I show that Husserl’s problem consists in the impossibility of distinguishing between the individual essence of a particular pure ego and the eidos ‘pure ego’ on the basis of the available phenomenological procedures. I suggest that anxiety, attests to this failure. Yet in contrast to the pure ‘I,’ anxiety is not a representation of a self. Rather, it is a practical mode of self-awareness rooted in care that uncovers one’s own authentic ability-to-be. Nevertheless, I clarify why, given the conceptual background that Husserl and Heidegger share, the appeal to anxiety and authentic ability-to-be cannot escape the need to posit a representation of the self that has features similar to those of the pure ‘I.’
KW - Cartesian Meditation
KW - Individual Essence
KW - Intentional Experience
KW - Logical Investigation
KW - Perceptual Object
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85114927885&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-94-007-1503-5_10
DO - 10.1007/978-94-007-1503-5_10
M3 - ???researchoutput.researchoutputtypes.contributiontobookanthology.chapter???
AN - SCOPUS:85114927885
SN - 9789400715035
SN - 940071503X
T3 - Contributions To Phenomenology
SP - 141
EP - 156
BT - Philosophy's Moods
A2 - Kenaan, Hagi
A2 - Ferber, Ilit
PB - Springer
CY - Dordrecht
ER -