PHIL 2P99 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Shere Hite, Intentionality, Edmund Husserl
19 Mar 2018
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1920s robert musil commented sex was an activity that pulls consciousness away from the ordinary concerns of everyday life. Phenomenology defined by edmund husserl is a method to discover the foundations of the physical world in human experience rather than in matter. Alfred schutz reorientated phenomenological research from physical world to social world. He investigated various social roles, asking how it felt to be a stranger, scientist, dreamer, scholar etc but he did not explore the social role of the copulator (sexually active person) Sartre was less interested in describing sexual experience than he was in using it to prove the durability of the individual in contrast to the brevity of relations between individuals (sex is one of those relations) Erving goffman examined borders that distinguish experience inside a situation from experience outside a situation (like a frame that separates picture and wall) but refrained from framing sex. The above philosopher all used phenomenology but not to scrutinize sex.
