{"agent_id":"husserl","agent_name":"Edmund Husserl","slug":"intersubjectivity-and-the-fifth-cartesian-meditation","label":"Intersubjectivity and the Fifth Cartesian Meditation: does the analogical apperception of the Other avoid solipsism, or did Husserl never escape the transcendental ego?","topic":"Intersubjectivity and the Fifth Cartesian Meditation","question":"Does the analogical apperception of the Other avoid solipsism, or did Husserl never escape the transcendental ego?","position":"The Other is constituted within transcendental consciousness through *analogical apperception* of the alien body as a *Leib* like my own — the perceived body of the other resembles my own lived body in its expressive movements, and a *pairing* (*Paarung*) associates them so that the other body is apperceived as bearer of an I like my own. The result is *transcendental intersubjectivity* — the structurally already- shared world that any objective experience presupposes. The Cartesian Meditations Fifth Meditation gives the most-Cartesian formulation; the late research manuscripts (Hua XIII-XV) develop a far more substantial *generative phenomenology* of historical, cultural, and intergenerational intersubjectivity that the Fifth Meditation only hints at.","paragraphs":[[{"t":"The Other is constituted within transcendental consciousness through *analogical apperception* of the alien body as a *Leib* like my own — the perceived body of the other resembles my own lived body in its expressive movements, and a *pairing* (*Paarung*) associates them so that the other body is apperceived as bearer of an I like my own.","n":[1]}],[{"t":"The result is *transcendental intersubjectivity* — the structurally already- shared world that any objective experience presupposes.","n":[]},{"t":"The Cartesian Meditations Fifth Meditation gives the most-Cartesian formulation; the late research manuscripts (Hua XIII-XV) develop a far more substantial *generative phenomenology* of historical, cultural, and intergenerational intersubjectivity that the Fifth Meditation only hints at.","n":[2,3,4,5]}]],"texts":"Cartesian Meditations Fifth Meditation §§42-62 on the analogical apperception of the alien body, the pairing (Paarung), and the constitution of the Other; the three Husserliana volumes on intersubjectivity (Hua XIII, XIV, XV, ed. Iso Kern, 1973) on the late genetic and generative material; Ideas II §§43-50 on the constitution of the other as psychic subject; Crisis §§47-55 on transcendental intersubjectivity and the lifeworld. Reception: Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943), Part Three on the look — the most influential solipsism charge; Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity (1961) on the Other as exceeding the alter ego structure; Michael Theunissen, The Other (1965/1984) — the canonical comparative study (Husserl-Heidegger-Sartre-Buber); Dan Zahavi, Husserl und die transzendentale Intersubjektivität (1996) and Husserl's Phenomenology (2003) chapter 3.","works":["Cartesian Meditations Fifth Meditation §§42-62 on the analogical apperception of the alien body, the pairing (Paarung), and the constitution of the Other","the three Husserliana volumes on intersubjectivity (Hua XIII, XIV, XV, ed. Iso Kern, 1973) on the late genetic and generative material","Ideas II §§43-50 on the constitution of the other as psychic subject","Crisis §§47-55 on transcendental intersubjectivity and the lifeworld"],"reception":"Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943), Part Three on the look — the most influential solipsism charge; Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity (1961) on the Other as exceeding the alter ego structure; Michael Theunissen, The Other (1965/1984) — the canonical comparative study (Husserl-Heidegger-Sartre-Buber); Dan Zahavi, Husserl und die transzendentale Intersubjektivität (1996) and Husserl's Phenomenology (2003) chapter 3.","status":"Sartre's *Being and Nothingness* (1943) Part Three on the look became the dominant reading of Husserl's intersubjectivity as solipsistic — the Other as alter ego, derivative from the primordial self. Levinas's *Totality and Infinity* (1961) extended the worry from a different angle: the Other exceeds the alter ego structure altogether. Theunissen's *The Other* (1965) provides the comparative study. Zahavi's *Husserl und die transzendentale Intersubjektivität* (1996) shows that the solipsism charge rests on reading only the Fifth Meditation and ignoring the late research manuscripts (Hua XIII-XV); the late material treats intersubjectivity as transcendentally prior to the constituted ego, not derivative from it.","era":"1859-1938","discipline":"Philosophy","refs":[{"n":1,"work":"Cartesian Meditations","page":"pp. 159–160","canonical":"","quote":"Quite rightly, therefore, we speak of *perceiving* someone else and then of perceiving the Objective world, perceiving that the other Ego and I are looking at the same world, and so forth — though this perceiving goes on exclusively within the sphere of my ownness.","label":"Cartesian Meditations, pp. 159–160"},{"n":2,"work":"Cartesian Meditations","page":"p. 146","canonical":"","quote":"Ultimately we always get back to the *radical differentiation* *of apperceptions* into those that, according to their genesis, belong purely to the *primordial sphere* and those that present themselves *with the sense* *\"alter ego*\" and, *upon* this sense, have built a new one — thanks to a genesis at a higher level. 51.","label":"Cartesian Meditations, p. 146"},{"n":3,"work":"Cartesian Meditations","page":"pp. 147–148","canonical":"","quote":"This overlaying can bring a total or a partial coincidence, which in any particular instance has its degree, the limiting case being that of complete \"likeness\".","label":"Cartesian Meditations, pp. 147–148"},{"n":4,"work":"Cartesian Meditations","page":"p. 154","canonical":"","quote":"On the contrary, the analogically apprehended object and its indicated system of appearances are indeed *analogically adapted* to the analogous appearance, which has awakened this whole system too.","label":"Cartesian Meditations, p. 154"},{"n":5,"work":"Cartesian Meditations","page":"pp. 143–144","canonical":"","quote":"How does the motivation run? What becomes uncovered as involved in the very complicated intentional performance of the appresentation, which does in fact come about? Initial guidance can be furnished by the verbal sense, *an Other:* an Other Ego. \"Alter\" signifies alter ego.","label":"Cartesian Meditations, pp. 143–144"}],"answer":null,"siblings":[{"slug":"anti-psychologism-and-the-autonomy-of-logic","label":"Anti-psychologism and the autonomy of logic: are the laws of logic ideal and apodictic, or are they psychological regularities?"},{"slug":"intentionality-and-the-noesis-noema-structure","label":"Intentionality and the noesis-noema structure: is the noema an intensional sense in the Fregean manner, or the object itself in its mode of givenness?"},{"slug":"the-transcendental-reduction-and-transcendental-idealism","label":"The transcendental reduction and transcendental idealism: does the epoché yield a constituting subjectivity that grounds the world, or does it lose the world it brackets?"},{"slug":"inner-time-consciousness-retention-protention-and-the-absolu","label":"Inner time-consciousness, retention/protention, and the absolute flow: does the privilege of the living present rest on a metaphysics of presence that retention itself undermines?"},{"slug":"embodiment-leib-vs-k-rper","label":"Embodiment, Leib vs. Körper: is the lived body structurally distinct from the body considered as object, or is this distinction collapsible?"},{"slug":"the-lifeworld-the-crisis-of-european-sciences-and-the-husser","label":"The lifeworld, the Crisis of European Sciences, and the Husserl-Heidegger break: does the late phenomenology recover the meaning-foundation of science, or is it a relapse into philosophical anthropology that Heidegger's existential analytic surpasses?"}]}