Schematizzare il tempo

Motivazione e costituzione del mondo intersoggettivo

Abstract

This article examines the Husserlian notion of “motivation” by comparison with Kant’s doctrine of Schematism, so that its temporal frame, which is also, immediately, its intersubjective and worldly fold, could come to light. Such an insight will eventually lead to recast the dogmas of transcendental philosophy.We argue that motivations – as a third synthesis, dealing with imagination, in addition to primary memory (perception) and secondary memory (reproduction) – mediate and organize the flux of retentions and protentions by means of external supports, that Bernard Stiegler calls “tertiary retentions”. Their peculiarity lies in the fact that they do not belong to the ego’s lived experiences, since they rather set up a sort of transductive constitution between the subject and its intersubjective community, the intersubjective community and its cultural inherited milieu. Thus, motivations establish an order of non-deterministic and non-naturalistic sense-giving and sense-emerging.