Institute of Philosophy SAS
Topic
Phenomenological analysis of passivity
PhD. program
Year of admission
2025
Name of the supervisor
doc. Mgr. Jaroslava Vydrová, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
Annotation
The goal of the dissertation will be to explore the issues of passivity, attention, and the capacity of recognition based on the phenomenological analysis elaborated by Edmund Husserl (in the relevant texts of Husserliana). The thesis will trace these concepts in analyses of passive syntheses and constitutions, how are they constituted by the pre-reflective givenness of the world that is part of subjectivity. This theme is also presented, for example, by P. Ricœur on the basis of Husserl's elaboration of the concept of the life-world, which figures as a background that modifies subjective acts. This topic has also been addressed by other phenomenologists, such as A. J. Steinbock, D. Zahavi and others. The elaboration of the dissertation presupposes knowledge of phenomenological philosophy and the ability to work with German primary sources.