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PHENOMENOLOGY and Dialectlcal MATERIALISM BOSTON STUDIES in the PHILOSOPHY of SCIENCE PHENOMENOLOGY AND DIALECTlCAL MATERIALISM BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE EDITED BY ROBERT S. COHEN AND MARX W. WARTOFSKY VOLUME 49 TRÄN DUC THAO PHENOMENOLOGY AND DIALECTICAL MA TERIALISM Translated by Daniel J. Hennan and Donald V. Morano Edited by Robert S. Cohen D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY A MEMBER OF THE KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLlSHERS GROUP DORDRECHT / BOSTON / LANCASTER / TOKYO übrary of Congress Cataloging in Publleation Data Tran, Duc Thao. Phenomenology and dialeetieal materialism. (Boston studies in the philosophy of seienee ; v. 49) Translation of: Phenomenologie et materialisme dialeetique. Bibliography: p. Ineludes index. 1. Phenomenology. 2. Dialeetieal materialsm. 3. Husserl, Edmund,1859-1938. I. Cohen, Robert Sonne. II. Title. III. Series. Q174.B67 vol. 49 [B829.5] 001'.0Is[146'.32] 85-35 ISBN-13: 978-94-010-8795-7 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-5191-4 DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-5191-4 Published by D. Reidel Publishing Company, P.O. Box 17,3300 AA Dordrecht, Holland. Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 160 Old Derby Street, Hingham, MA 02043, U.S.A. In all other eountries, sold and distribu ted by Kluwer Aeademic Publishers Group, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordreeht, Holland. Translated from Tran Duc Thao's Phimomim%gie et materialisme dialectique (Paris: Minh Tan, 1951: re-issued New York: Gordon & Breach Science Pubs., Inc., 1971). All Rights Reserved. © 1986 by D. Reidel Publishing Company. Softeover reprint ofthe hardeover 1st edition 1986 No part of the material proteeted by this copyright notiee may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, eleetronic or meehanical, inc1uding photoeopying, reeording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner. TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL PREFACE vii TRANSLATORS'FOREWORD xiii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xix AUTHOR'S PREFACE xxi PART ONE: THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL METHOD AND ITS ACTUAL REAL CONTENT CHAPTER ONE: THE INTUITION OF ESSENCES l. The Technique ofVariation 3 2. Pure Idealities and Empirical Idealities 6 3. The True Significance of the Notion of Essenee 8 4. Difficulties with the Objectivism of Essences. The Return to the Subject 9 CHAPTER TWO: THE THEMATIZATION OF CONCRETE CON­ SCIOUSNESS 5. The Return to Lived Experience in the Logische Unter- suehungen 13 6. The Discovery of the Reduction 20 7. The Exposition of the Ideen 29 8. The Critique of the Kantians 37 9. Fink's Reply. The Necessity of a Mare Radical Explanation 39 10. The Notion of Constitution. The Signification of Transcen- dental Idealism 43 Il. The Constitution of the World of the Spirit 47 12. The Notion of Object. Perception and Judgment 50 CHAPTER THREE: THE PROBLEM S OF REASON 13. Self-Evidence (Evidenee) and Truth 69 14. The problem of Error 73 15. [Self-] Evidence as Intentional Performance (Intentionale Leistung) 77 v vi TABLE OF CONTENTS 16. The Possibility of Enor as Contemporaneous with Truth 82 17. A Digression ~ The Theory of Evidence According to Descartes and the Problem of the Cartesian Cirele 87 18. Phenomenological Description as a Critique of Authenticity: Static and Genetic Constitution 90 19. The Constitution of the Formai Domain: Logic and Mathe- matics 99 20. The Genesis of Judgment 111 CHAPTER FOUR: THE RESULT OF PHENOMENOLOGY 21. The Genesis of Antepredicative Experience and Its Real Content 121 PART TWO: THE DlALECIlC OF REAL MOVEMENT INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO J. Consciousness and Matter 133 CHAPTER ONE: THE DIALECTlC OI' ANIMAL BEHA VIOR AS THE BECOMING OI' Sr:--JSF CERTAINTY 2. Phenomenological Givens and Real Givens 143 3. The Movement of the InternaI Sense 146 4. The Movement of the External Sense 156 5. Remarks on the Preceding Development: The Passage to the Dialectic of Human Societies 172 CHAPTER TWO: THE DIALECTlC OF HUMAN SOCIETlES AS THE BECOMING OF REAS ON 6. Use-Value and the Movement of Sacrifke 179 7. The Movement of Wealth and the Becoming of the Gods 189 8. Mercantile Economy and the Sacrifke of the Savior, God 194 9. Monetary Economy, the Transcendence of the Idea, and the Concept of Salvatian 201 10. Capitalistic Economy, the Power of Abstraction and the Proletarian Revolution 212 APPENDIX 2J9 NOTES 22J BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS C!TED 24J INDEX OF NAMES 243 EDITORIAL PREFACE Tran Duc Thao, a brilliant student of philosophy at the Ecole Normale Super­ ieure within the post-1935 decade of political disaster, born in Vietnam shortly after the F ir st World War, recipient of a scholarship in Paris in 1935 37, was early noted for his independent and originaI mind_ While the 1930s twisted down to the defeat of the Spanish Republic, the compromise with German Fascism at Munich, and the start of the Second World War, and while the 1940s began with hypocritical stability at the Western Front fol­ lowed by the defeat of France, and the occupation of Paris by the German power together with French collaborators, and the n ended with liberation and a search for a new understanding of human situations, the young Thao was deeply immersed in the classical works of European philosophy. He was al so the attentive but critical student of a quite special generation of French metaphysicians and social philosophers: Gaston Berger, Maurice Merleau­ Ponty, Emile Brehier, Henri Lefebvre, Rene le Senne, Jean-Paul Sartre, perhaps the young Louis Althusser. They, in their several modes of response, had been meditating for more than a decade on the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, which came to France in the thirties as a new metaphysical enlighten­ ment - phenomenology. With Husserl's phenomenology, there also came the powerful influences of a revived Hegel (of the Phellomeno!ogy) and of Martin Heidegger's existentialism, and, in a tangle of variants, there came a startling renewed investigation of Marx. The young Tran Duc Thao joined the search for objective truth, worked to overcome both psychologism and every weakening of knowledge by subjectivist limitation, investigated Hus­ serl's writings in print and in the fine arehives at Louvain (with the kindly help of H. L. van Breda). His progress was dialeetieal, Socratic and Hegelian, but also it was a material dialectic due both to his Marxist studies and to the grim tasks of the greater liberation in his social life-world - the liberation of Vietnam. Thao's themes drove him to the border of Husserl's thought, just as Thao saw Husserl himself driven toward the apparent relativism of the final Krisis manuscripts. The privileged, indeed most precious, phenomenological aetivity is that of 'constitution', for which there is the endless work of passing from naive certainty to the developed no-longer-naive certainties of intentional vii vm EDITORIAL PREFACE praxis. Such praxis has to be understood in so many ways of becoming, and especially of becoming aware: the awareness is of what is mine and what is the historical world; the praxes are sociaL political, symbolic, communicative. even philosophical. If to constitute is to act, the phenomenological re­ establishment of meaning must investigate the temporaI within action, both as the particular quality of a time-consciousness and as the dialectic of past, present and future: the past made present cannot be mine alone: the future yet to be chosen, 'constituted', must be inter-subjective and historical, so it is Husserl's future as 'horilOn'. For Tran Duc Thao, the human activity of 'constitution' in the present demands understanding, which retrospectively deals with genesis and prospectively with goals. Genetic understanding en­ tails materialist science, the investigation of the evolutionary biological foundation and historical development of consciousness, and especially of that practical consciousness which is language. Understanding of goal-directed present 'constitutive' action suggests a materialist science of intentional pos­ sibilities, a political economy of historically determined needs, desires, ideo­ logies, resources and alternatives. Whether the phenomenological method is capable ofleading to such under­ standing, whether that method can situate the social sciences so that they may rightly formulate their investigations, is shown to be doubtful in Part One of this book. Thao here, and in his articles of those same early years, sets aside the existentialist turn (effectively close to Lukacs's 1947 critique of the existentialist pessimism of 'dreadful freedom'); for Thao, the way forward must lead through the theory and practice of Marxism. What Marx­ ism may say to the philosopher at this point was roundly debated in France in the two decades after Liberation. For Tran Duc Thao, the Marxist heuris­ tic led to the question of clarifying the nature of production. Thus produc­ tion is the moment of constitution (and in Thao's later work we see how re­ presentation, gesture, and the embryology of language elaborates production at the origin of human mentality). But HusserL as Thao tells us in his care­ ful exposition, provided only a program: to go beyond the undoubted virtues of anti-formalism and anti-dualism, phenomenology would have to transcend its own analytic restrictions and enter upon analysis of the historical mater­ ialism of the subject, a critique of the forees pressing upon the subject as that subject's very life-world. Thao writes of 'the historical movement of reality' and at the conclusion of his Husserlian study he summarizes: ". the re is no longer any valid reason to refuse to (the) constituting subjectivity its predicates regarding reality". And why is this possible, why can we trans- EDITORIAL PR EF ACE IX cend the transcendental idealism? Because ". it is nature itself becoming­ subject" (I 29). In Part Two, Thao sketched his alternative to the 'radical contingency' of Husserl's Weltkonstitution (130). He wrestled then, and since (and how many others have done likewise), to argue, indeed to show, the plausibility of a non-reductive materialism.
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