Unity Makes Strength. Transcendental Intersubjectivity, Technics, and the Institution of Objectivity: Husserl, Fink, and Merleau-Ponty
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia April 20, 2026 Riccardo Valenti
In this paper, I defend the claim that objectivity, in classical phenomenology, is best read as an instituted invariant: not a static given but the diachronic achievement of cooperative validation within transcendental intersubjectivity, mediated by technics—above all, writing and inscription—that ensure the iterability, transmissibility, and public critique of sense. The essay unfolds in five...