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Husserl And Community, Sean Stephen Petranovich
Husserl And Community, Sean Stephen Petranovich
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This dissertation is on Edmund Husserl's concept of personal community. I argue that Husserl's concept of community is based on his formal theory of parts and wholes. More specifically, it is argued that the terms Husserl uses to describe features of community in his later writings are already established early in his philosophical career. The first three chapters of the dissertation focus on Husserl's unique conception of community in general. The final two chapters turn to political communities from a Husserlian standpoint.
In the first chapter, I investigate how Husserl's account of the ontological structure of community is tied to …