História e Verdade(s), vol. 23

JEFFREY ANDREW BARASH
Self-knowledge: behind phenomenology.

Phenomenology as Husserl conceived of it attempted to found the coherence of personal identity on the pure structural cohesion of individual temporal experience. This article calls for an overcoming of the phenomenological perspective in the belief that pure individual time-consciousness can never account for the meaningful constitution of the world, since individual time-consciousness is everywhere interwoven with a socially-instituted temporal awareness which cannot be derived from the pure structures of individual temporal experience. For this reason, Husserl's insights into internal time-consciousness need to be reconsidered in light of a socially-instituted historical dimension of collective temporal awareness.