On the object of thought

Aron Gurwitsch

pp. 157-163

in: Aron Gurwitsch, The collected works of Aron Gurwitsch (1901–1973) II, Berlin, Springer, 2010

Abstrakt

In contrast to the objectivistic trend which, to a large extent, prevails in contemporary philosophy and psychology, phenomenology has insisted upon the orientation toward subjectivity, i.e., consciousness. It is to the defense and, if possible, the elaboration of this orientation that the present discussion is devoted. We propose to discuss a concept which is of central importance in this respect—namely, the concept of what may be called the "subjective object." Provisionally and roughly defined, it is the concept of the object not as it really is but as it appears to the experiencing subject's mind through a given act of consciousness. What is meant by this is called noema in Husserl's terminology.

Cited authors

Weber Max