Posts Tagged ‘Origin of Geometry’
Now, we finished the last post off with the geometrical object acquiring a “living linguistic body”, and with this being the manner in which it became there for everybody. Now we need to have a closer look at this process.
Husserl not only lists the objects of science as ideal bodies, but, interestingly, the “constructions of [...]
Before we get on to Derrida’s commentary on the Origin, lets take a look at Husserl’s text.
The opening reference to Galileo puts us within the thinking of The Crisis. The specific question of the piece, ‘the origin of geometry’ is an unexpectedly historical one’. Husserl has no interest in the ‘historical’ first geometers, even if [...]
