Ichfremdheit: Blaustein's Criticism of the Husserlian Concept of Hyletic Data in the Light of Husserl's Late Philosophy
2023
Abstract
The concept of sensuous hyle is one of Husserl's most widely discussed ideas. Beside such thinkers as Ingarden, Patočka, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre or Henry, one of the critics of the hyletic data theory was Leopold Blaustein.
In his 1928 doctoral dissertation on Husserl, Blaustein describes and critically discusses Husserl's concept of hyletic content. In my paper, I would like to reconstruct Blaustein's criticism and pose a question not so much about its interpretative legitimacy-as Blaustein in his doctoral thesis focuses almost exclusively on the presentation of Husserl's views from Logische Untersuchungen-but rather about its substantive persuasiveness in the light of Husserl's late philosophy.