Experience and evidence

Nam-In Lee

Seoul National University

pp. 229-246

in: Husserl Studies 23 (3), 2007.

Abstract

It is the aim of this paper to assess Levinas's criticism of Husserl's concept of evidence. In Sect. 1, I will summarize Levinas's criticism of Husserl's concept of evidence. In Sect. 2, I will delineate Husserl's concept of experience and in Sect. 3, I will try to define the concept of evidence in Husserl. In Sect. 4–6, I will assess Levinas's criticism of Husserl's concepts of evidence and show that Levinas's criticism of Husserl's concept of evidence is out of the mark, since it is based on a total misunderstanding of Husserl's concepts of evidence.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Levinas Emmanuel