From the personal experience to the experience

Abstract

The survival of phenomenology notwithstanding the attacks from structuralism and post-structuralism represents and indication of the vitality of the movement instituted by Edmund Husserl. The fact that Phenomenology can endure and stimulate the philosophical reflection means that, thanks to it, new possibilities for thinking have been or can be opened. The author considers that the axis of the phenomenological renewal can be stated in the following thesis: experience must be conceived and expressed, not as a lived experience (German Erlebnis, French vécu), but as an essay or proof (épreuve). While the term “Erlebnis” denotes the donation of sense by consciousness, the term essay or experience (Erfahrung) alludes to an event that consciousness bears, an event that emerges always as new, because it opposes any of our expectations. Following this threading-line, the author explores various spheres and issues of the phenomenological philosophy: time-consciousness, the socalled ‘phenomenological unconscious’, the expression of experience, and intends to sketch a phenomenology of language, emphasizing the relevance of poetical language and the expression of the other subject. The article succeeds in presenting a series of actual problems around a proposal treated in an original manner but rooted in potentialities o Husserlian transcendental Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and French Phenomenology.