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extended to apply to a “transcendental
subject”. All this was meant to provide the necessary scientific objectivity to
the kind of philosophy which Husserl was developing, and it was suggested that
this would achieve a certainty of knowledge that even the “normal” sciences
could barely approach. As one commentator described it:
…
it appears that all non-philosophical sciences start from a complex of
presuppositions which are not clarified in these sciences themselves.
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page096from Building Ideas
In one sense this notion of a scientific
philosophy could be seen as part of the continuing Enlightenment “project”,
with many disciplines including even the new social sciences still under
pressure to fit the definitions of objectivity. The method that Husserl adopted
for his study of phenomena and the ways that they present themselves to the
mind were also reminiscent of the Descartes’ thought process, in his earlier
search for the foundations of true knowledge. Like Descartes, Husserl began by
abandoning all previous experience, regarding it as doubtful, uncertain or
misleading and, having suspended his preconceptions he would “bracket off” a
particular object, allowing him to contemplate it detached from its context.
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page095from Building Ideas
the dictionary definition adds some clarity
to the issue it still leaves much room for debate. The word itself translates
as the study of how phenomena appear to the consciousness, based on the Greek
words phaino and logos. Phaino means “to show” or “come to appearance” and is
also the root word of phantom and fantasy, while logos can mean “reason”, “word”
or “speak”, hence its use in the sciences for “the study of”.
The Meaning of “Being” – From Husserl to
Heidegger
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page094from Building Ideas
Today”, this split is actually brought
about by a false opposition between purposeful and purpose-free objects. He was
writing in response to the call by Adolf Loos for an architecture that was free
of “unnecessary” ornament, but this definition of what was necessary in the
design of a building was seen by Adorno as fundamentally problematic. He described
how the two issues were historically connected – such that ornament often
derived from construction – and, by the same token, how supposedly “pure”
technical objects soon acquired symbolic significance for their users. In the
latter case this would apply to large scale structures, like the Eiffel Tower
or the Brooklyn Bridge, and on a smaller scale this can also be seen in people’s
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page093from Building Ideas
3
The Return of the Body
Phenomenology in Architecture
In Chapters 1 and 2 the problematic status
of architecture as a discipline was presented as an argument between what the
writer C. P. Snow referred to as the “two cultures”, of science and the arts.1
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