/lit/ - Literature

>>19214034
Phenomenology is, in the simplest terms possible, the study of the foundational conditions of knowledge, science and philosophy. Husserl sometimes seems to infer that Pheno is anterior to philosophy, and that all philosophy up until it did not respect it's own impulse. Essentially, Phenomenology is philosophy taken as a rigorous science.
The main problem with Husserl is that he does not teach, he does not explain, he explores. At no point in his books will you actually see an example of a full phenomenological reduction (you can find them in much more obscure, untranslated journals). And the entire structure rests on this methodology which is never explicited fully (for good reasons, however).
The one way the analogy to buddhism works is that Phenomenology is a practice that takes an enormous amount of time, and completely changes your outlook on existence multiple time through its practice.
For a beginner, the recommended way is to spend a few months/years working on your eidetic reductions as you read and familiarize yourself with the LI and try tackling the Ideas.

>>19189630
I would guess ESL for protention/retention.

> The perception of the sound in the perception’s ever new now is not a mere having of the sound, even of the sound in the now-phase. On the contrary, we find in each now, in addition to the actual physical content, an adumbration …. If we focus reflectively on what is presently given in the actually present now with respect to the sound of the postilion’s horn, or the rumbling of the coach, and if we reflect on it just as it is given, then we note the trail of memory that extends the now-point of the sound or of the rumbling. This reflection makes it evident that the immanent thing could not be given in its unity at all if the perceptual consciousness did not also encompass, along with the point of actually present sensation, the continuity of fading phases that pertain to the sensations belonging to earlier nows. The past would be nothing for the most consciousness belonging to the now if it were not represented in the now; and the now would not be now … if it did not stand before me in that consciousness as the limit of a past being. The past must be represented in this now as past, and this is accomplished through the continuity of adumbrations that in one direction terminates in the sensation-point and in the other direction and in the other direction becomes blurred and indeterminate. (1991: 290)

> It belongs to the essence of perception not only that it has in view a punctual now and not only that it releases from its view something that has just been, while ‘still intending’ it in the original mode of ‘just-having-been’, but also that it passes over from now to now and, in anticipation, goes to meet the new now. The waking consciousness, the waking life, is a living-towards, a living that goes from the now towards the new now. (1991: 112)