Online a new article for the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology by Di Huang (East China Normal University).
Di Huang – “Presence and Absence in Expression: Meaning-Intention in the Revisions of the Logical Investigations”
JBSP (Received 29 Jul 2024, Accepted 20 Jan 2025, Published online: 03 Feb 2025).
Abstract: This paper examines Edmund Husserl’s revised account of expression in his 1913–1914 revisions of the Logical Investigations. Rejecting the Investigations’ thesis that linguistic meanings are constituted in a distinctive class of essentially non-intuitive meaning intentions, Husserl develops a new conception of empty intention, a new analysis of the intuitively fulfilled discourse and a phenomenology of the indicative tendency. While these revisions have been acknowledged, their motivation, connection, and significance remain under-explored in the existing literature. By comparing the Investigations and the Revisions, this paper shows how these developments fundamentally alter Husserl’s understanding of the relationship between language, thought, and intuition. The revised account of expression illuminates the dynamic interaction of these elements in the process of meaning-making, offering a balanced account of the interplay of presence and absence in our use of words.
Full article: https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2025.2458310
Di Huang, Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
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