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(1987) Search without idols, Dordrecht, Springer.
Husserl is true to form as a totalist. He prefers an alternate phenomenological world to the ordinary natural world in which we all live. To be sure, this alternate world is a theoretical and rational enterprise. But he prefers this world of total reason to the natural world we inhabit. The alternate world gives him a new "foundation for knowledge,' the freedom to live in the sphere of transcendental subjectivity, as well as absolute truth (with apodictic certainty). The world Husserl leaves behind him is not just doubtable; it is suspendable. One can bracket such a world, put it out of action, and make it completely inconsequential in the world of the mind. Husserl presents an elaborate methodology for making a "break' with this world in order to achieve extraordinary knowledge. The world of total reason is made possible by infinite transcendence, which mediates the journey from our world to an alternate one. This anonymous infinite transcendence is also central to the operations of the alternate world of total reason.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-3493-1_9
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Horosz, W. (1987). Husserl's world of infinite transcendence, in Search without idols, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 267-300.
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