The tragedy of scientific culture

• Verfasst von: Arnold, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The tragedy of scientific culture
• Titelzusatz: Husserl on inauthentic habits, technisation and mechanisation
• Verf.angabe: Thomas Arnold
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: 19 April 2022
• Umfang: 14 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 19.12.2023
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Human studies
• Ort Quelle: Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V, 1978
• Jahr Quelle: 2022
• Band/Heft Quelle: 45(2022), 2, Seite 209-222
• ISSN Quelle: 1572-851X
• DOI: doi:10.1007/s10746-022-09621-x
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Authenticity
• Sach-SW: Habit
• Sach-SW: Inauthenticity
• Sach-SW: Mechanisation
• K10plus-PPN: 187646321X

Abstract

Habit and habitualisation play an important role in Husserl's phenomenology, yet one aspect of habituality has been somewhat overlooked, namely the dimension of authenticity/inauthenticity. While authenticity in Heidegger has received a lot of attention, inauthenticity in Husserl is less well researched, although, as I will show, it is of equal importance to his overall theorising. The central aim of this paper is to explore the authenticity/inauthenticity-distinction in the various domains of habitualisation and to establish its fundamental importance for Husserl. In the first, introductory part of this paper I offer a few remarks on how to understand and categorise Husserl's transcendental take on habits; I also introduce the important distinction between authentic and inauthentic habits and authenticity and inauthenticity in general. In the second part I present the problem of mechanisation as a form of inauthentic habitualisation as it appears in Husserl's phenomenologies of ethics and, more importantly, science. The third part concludes the paper with a reflection on how phenomenology is programmatically aimed against any form of inauthenticity, and on how it might or might not achieve this goal.