Husserlian constitution differs from Nietzschean construction of reality.
Evidence
Husserl’s concept of constitution should not be mixed up with the Nietzschean concept of construction, which is central in the philosophy of Foucault and his feminist followers such as Judith Butler (1990, 1993). Th e Husserlian concept does not involve any sense of creation. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 400
Categorization
- DEFINE: Distinguishes the phenomenological concept of constitution from poststructuralist construction — a key terminological line in the Continental tradition.
- XREF: Resonates with the reading purpose’s interest in Beauvoir’s phenomenology being confounded with Butler-style constructionist feminism. — connects to: Husserlian protentions cannot explain consciousness’s surpassing of itself toward the not-yet. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 383