Husserl and Critical Phenomenology: an Analysis of Disruption of Mourning from Habits and Levels of Constitution

Authors

  • Camila Ramírez Clavería Univerzita Karlova

Abstract

Critical phenomenology appears as a groundbreaking discipline, which seeks to apply the classical analyses to concrete problems of everyday life such as structures of power, racialized bodies and gender studies, to name a few. According to this, this paper aims to conduct a re-reading of the Husserlian work with the purpose of describing what happens with the interruption of a specific cultural tradition: mourning someone who has passed away. This re-reading is performed in the frame of two contemporary Husserlian interpretations of great relevance, i.e., Lanei Rodemeyer’s on the levels of constitution and Dermot Moran’s on the levels of experience through habitus. In the light of this, it will be shown that the disruption of a tradition such as mourning not only affects subjectivity in its utmost depth, but at the same time goes through different levels of experience to connect to intersubjetivity.

Keywords:

critical phenomenology, levels of constitution, habits, tradition, disruption