Two Reviews: Julia V. Iribarne. 'La intersubjetividad en Husserl: Bosquejo de una teoria'. Karl Schuhmann. 'Husserls Staatsphilosophie' [Book Review]
Abstract
Three distinctive traits may be emphasized in Husserl’s phenomenology of
intersubjectivity. First, the unity pervading a multiplicity of subjects is
considered as the outcome of a process of unification, that is, the result of
the constitutive processes of a plmality of subjects. According to Husserl,
all supra-individual unities must be explained as grounded on the single
subjectivities. This point is stressed in both books, particularly by K.
Schuhmarm (pp. 4849, 62). Secondly, it must be borne in mind that the
unification is conceived of as the unfolding of the “horizon of others”
belonging to each single subjectivity. This explication can be accomplished
in a diversity of strata involving different levels of intersubjectivity, such as
empathy, social action, higher order personalities and the final end of the
universe of monads. Iribame has underlined and attempted to make clear
the unfolding of inte