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Epoché as Personal Transformation

On the Similarities between the Philosophical Change of Attitude and Religious Conversions

Heinämaa, Sara

Phänomenologische Forschungen, Bd. 2019 (2019), Iss. 2: S. 133–159

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Heinämaa, Sara

Abstract

This paper argues that the parallel that Husserl draws in The Crisis between the phenomenological epoché and religious conversions is not just a rhetorical device but involves a crucial methodological idea. By pointing to the depth-dimension of living consciousness and its possibilities of transformation, the parallel sheds light upon the ultimate task of the phenomenological- transcendental reduction. To argue for this this claim, the paper first explicates the two principal epoch