Husserl held that perceived objects actively move, attract, and repel subjects

Evidence

In his phenomenological investigations into the constitution of nature, Husserl argues that perceived objects (objects given in sense-perception) are not neutral but attract our attention and move us in many diff erent ways. We see things with tempting and inviting qualities— colorful things, for example, that arrest and capture our attention and make us turn toward them. We also perceive unpleasant things that drive us away, make us turn and move further away: harsh voices, sharp smells, restless movements, bright light. So we are not indiff erent to the things that we encounter in perception but are clearly infl uenced by them: they stir us, prod us, pull us, and provoke us. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 353

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s Continental scholarship on Sartre’s account of affectivity, and to Merleau-Ponty’s lived-body phenomenology in Phenomenology of Perception. — connects to: Husserl reconciled affective perception with transcendental constitution by positing two levels of activity — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 354; Primary perception is organized around attraction and repulsion affecting bodily movement — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 362; Meat Joy’s affective reach depended on physically engaging spectators’ senses — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 602

Broader Connections

• Husserl reconciled affective perception with transcendental constitution by positing two levels of activity #expands (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 354
• Primary perception is organized around attraction and repulsion affecting bodily movement #exemplifies (0.82) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 362
• Meat Joy’s affective reach depended on physically engaging spectators’ senses #exemplifies (0.72) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 602