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There exist remarkable parralelisms between the phenomenological time structure of associative remembering and that of narratives proposed by A. C. Danto as explaining our experience of history. Both show themselves as selective, segmentary, multi-dimensional time continua, and we can speak of "backward causality" in both cases. Consequently, contrary to the view that Husserl's phenomenology lacks the true concept of history, it is maintained that the phenomenological origin of historical consciousness must be discovered in the domain of remembering not in that of innate time-consciousness. The time structure of associative remembering may thus be regarded as a schematic function that provides a structure for time as it is lived.

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8218-6_27

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