Facticity

Abstract: Part 1 From consciousness to world Division I - First philosophy - the problem of ego and alter ego ""progressive"" procedure and the turn towards immanence the absolute as facticity and the necessity of genetic analysis the ""other"" as the theme of first philosophy taking the fifth Division II - transcendental philosophy and the problem of world regressive procedure the lifeworld problematic transcendental concepts of the lifeworld. Part 2 Normality, abnormality, and normative territories - towards a generative phenomenology: Division III - a genetic phenomenology of normality and abnormality concordant and discordance the normal as the optimal and optimalizing comportment normalization and terrain Division IV - generativity as the matter of generative phenomenology introduction to the problematic of homeworld/alienworld liminal experience as appropriation - making ourselves at home liminal experience as appropriation - home economics liminal experience as transgression conclusion - generative phenomenology.

Abstract: Introduction to Phenomenological Research, volume 17 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe, contains his first lectures given at Marburg in the winter semester of 1923-1924. In these lectures, Heidegger introduces the notion of phenomenology by tracing it back to Aristotle's treatments of phainomenon and logos. This extensive commentary on Aristotle is an important addition to Heidegger's ongoing interpretations which accompany his thinking during the period leading up to Being and Time. Additionally, these lectures develop critical differences between Heidegger's phenomenology and that of Descartes and Husserl and elaborate questions of facticity, everydayness, and flight from existence that are central in his later work. Here, Heidegger dismantles the history of ontology and charts a new course for phenomenology by defining and distinguishing his own methods.

Abstract: Australia has recently witnessed the resurgence of what has been termed the ‘race debate’. The apparently high levels of popular support from ‘ordinary’ Australians for MP Pauline Hanson's contentious views on immigration, Australia's indigenous peoples and her foreign relations have been a major theme of this debate. This paper employs the framework of discursive psychology to examine, in her maiden speech to Parliament, the way in which Pauline Hanson's political rhetoric is precisely constructed in order to emphasize the ordinariness, reasonableness and commonsensical mass appeal of her views. Particular attention is paid to the discursive deployment of self-categorization to construct a version of herself as exemplifying ‘ordinary Australian-ness’. The potential for recent work in discursive psychology both to complement and to challenge aspects of social identity theory inspired studies of political rhetoric is discussed. The analysis presented suggests that not only is it unnecessarily reductionistic to construe identity in talk in terms of dichotomous mental states, but also that the discursive construction of self- and social categories, and the establishing of the facticity of a position, need not be construed as separate aspects of the task of racist political rhetoric, but may be understood as mutually supporting components of successful mobilization discourse.