On the Phenomenology of Inner Time Consciousness

The scientific and philosophical research of Edmund Husserl, the founder of Phenomenology, on the Phenomenology of Inner Time Consciousness constitutes the final steps for the foundation of Phenomenology, in its chronological continuation, in terms of the state of Things and their movements in history. Time Consciousness, which is one of the most difficult subjects of phenomenology, is the most fundamental Consciousness since it is assumed in all Consciousness structures and forms. The phenomenological description of the structures of consciousness tries to overcome this difficult problem area, so that, on the one hand, it leads to an objective Orientation with the question of the possibility of the Comprehension of Time Objects such as Duration, Sound Duration, temporal happening, and on the other hand, by showing Consciousness as the absolute Subjectivity that temporalizes and establishes the entire temporal Appearance. Since it processes its flow, it has a subjective Orientation. The editing of this famous work was undertaken by Edith Stein, and the text was prepared for publication by Martin Heidegger for the yearbook "Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung" (1928), which consists of Husserl's manuscripts up to 1910. With these texts, Husserl introduces the basic concepts of phenomenological Reduction and Intentionality, while offering the opportunity to apply the phenomenological method of the analysis of Time Consciousness with all its precision and strictness. The importance of this initiative can only be expressed in the words of an ontologist, a hermeneutician, a thinker of 'another Beginning' or another relentless pioneer of the Phenomenology Movement.

The subject of the present research from start to finish is the temporal Establishment of a pure sensory Data and the Self-establishment of 'phenomenological Time' which forms the basis for such an Establishment. In addition, the revealing of the intentional character of Time Consciousness and the increasing fundamental clarification of Intentionality in general are decisive. This alone, apart from the specific content of the individual analyses, makes the present investigations the inevitable completion of the principled clarity of Intentionality, which was attempted for the first time in the "Researches on Logic". Even today, the phrase Intentionality is not a watchword, but rather the title of a central question.”

• Martin Heidegger

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