Abstract This essay concerns two distinct topics in Husserlian phenomenology. The first is “image consciousness” [ Bildbewusstsein ], which concerns the experiential nature of our encounters with pictures and other depictive objects. The second is “historicity” [ Geschichtlichkeit ], which refers to how human subjects, prior to any detailed knowledge of history, are in some sense always already...
Abstract This article takes as its starting point the recent work of Frank Ankersmit on subjective historical experience. Such an experience, which Ankersmit describes as a ‘sudden obliteration of the rift between present and past’ is connected strongly with the Deweyan theory of art as experiential, which contains an account of aesthetic experience as affording a similar breakdown in the...