ERSCHEINUNG IN DER SCHWEBE ZWISCHEN SEIN UND SCHEIN: VON HERBART ZU HUSSERL
The appearance in the oscillation between being and seeming: from Herbart to Husserl

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the dynamics of appearance, which is in a constant oscillation between being and seeming. This is an apodictical formal law of the life of consciousness: «so much seeming, so much being». In order to clarify this, we thematize a methodological proposal made by Johann Friedrich Herbart, which would be systematically applied by Edmund Husserl. The proposal consists in «leaving any object to oscillate between being and non-being». By developing this proposal, we examine phenomenological work as a praxis aiming at the «enrichment of sense» and a «self-transformation of subjectivity». We conclude the essay by providing some remarks on how phenomenology could fruitfully appropriate Herbart’s philosophical insights.

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