Among daily things: early phenomenology and the appearance of the sensible world

Abstract

This paper aims to describe the mode of appearance of die sensible world, understood as the first basis on which human life is effectively placed among concrete things. We will try to distinguish the level of immediate daily presence of the outside world from the way the outside World has traditionally been conceived, namely

as a mere "objective" manifestation. In this context, We will draw upon phenomenological descriptions of perception which appear mainly in philosophical and psychological works of early 20th century, and which were influenced by Edmund Husserl's studies on perception. On this basis, we inquire how the sensible world appears in daily lite without the character of "epistemic truth". Our purpose dins is to understand die outside world in an intimate relationship with a vital situation in winch life itself opens its own basis tor living.