Aesthetic, Intuition, Experience

Abstract

This article approaches the relationship between Kant and Husserl’s transcendental philosophies from the point of view of the transcendental aesthetic. The phenomenological conception of the transcendental aesthetic is rebuilt by studying its relationship with transcendental analytic, then with transcendental logic. The first perspective shows not only that Husserl’s concept of a transcendental aesthetic aims at a double-leveled task, but that the second level implies a non-kantian integration of causality along with time and space in the aesthetic frame. On this basis, it is possible to see Husserl as a heir of Schopenhauer’s critique of Kant’s philosophy. The second perspective shows that Husserl has always seen the transcendental aesthetic as the first step of a new type of logic, defined at first as a “real logic” then as a “world-logic”, which is the transcendental logic itself in a genetic point of view, describing the world’s “history” within the subject’s intentional life.