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Nicolas de Warren

2 papers in the library · publishing 2026

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Are We Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On? Narrative and the Oneiric Imagination

Eidos A Journal for Philosophy of Culture August 15, 2026 Nicolas de Warren

This essay examines dreaming as a challenge to the dichotomy between narrative and episodic conceptions of the self.Drawing on Sartre's phenomenology of the imaginary, it argues that dreams elude both accounts: dream consciousness is episodic and pre-reflective -reflective awareness that one is dreaming would annihilate the dream -yet dreams are experienced, on Sartre's insight, as "a story...

The metaphor of sedimentation and the entanglement of metaphors in Husserl’s phenomenology of time-consciousness

Continental Philosophy Review April 30, 2026 Nicolas de Warren

Abstract This paper examines the different ways in which the metaphor and concept of sedimentation play a decisive function in Husserl’s phenomenology of time-consciousness. Through an examination of the different layers and implications of meaning in Husserl’s image of sedimentation, the entangled significance of this crucial metaphor is connected to other metaphors in Husserl’s thinking,...