From ‘We’ to ‘I’ and Back: Still Learning from the New School (DOI: 10.2436/20.3001.01.11)

Abstract

After a sketch of the New School phenomenology led by Dorion Cairns, Aron
Gurwitsch, and Alfred Schutz in the 1950s and ‘60s, I follow Cairns and Schutz on how phenomenological reflection begins from intersubjectivity and the first person plural, moves by the egological reduction (or by another way) to individual subjectivity and the first person singular, and moves, finally, from there back to intersubjectivity and membership in social groups on the transcendental as well as worldly levels.

Key words: Phaenomenology, I, we.