The Ark of Origin. Ptolemaic Madness and Deponence of the Transcendental in the Last Husserl

Abstract

The paper aims at discussing the cosmotheoretical proposal achieved by Husserl in the Umsturz (1934) through an adequate appreciation of the Ptolemaic madness proclaimed in this work. In the attempt to rehabilitate a special kind of immobility, Husserl’s disapproval of the modern Copernicanism, either in its ontological version or in its epistemological one, leads to improve the statue of the transcendental, developing it such as a deponent or a middle passive voice. However, this account shows some internal limits of the phenomenological approach, taking back to the ancient first philosophy to the point of renoving the Aristotelian conception of unmoved mover.