THE COMMUNAL IDENTITY AS A GENERATIVE PROBLEM IN HUSSERL’S PHENOMENOLOGY
Community; Historicity; Generativity.
This dissertation addresses the communal identity as an object of the generative method. Before dealing with the primary objective of the research, the dissertation clarifies some relevant points. First, it demystifies intersubjectivity as a theme of Husserlian phenomenology through the analyses of Husserl's cartesianism. Second, it states the ways Husserl used to describe intersubjectivity. Third, it defines the structure of history as generative synthesis. Once these three objectives wore fulfilled, it is possible to refer to the community that has an identity as an intersubjective form, which is necessarily social-historical nature and needs to be studied in accordance with its constitution. The community that has an identity phenomenologically inquired has its genesis investigated. It appears as social-historical genesis established throughout generations. These generations are described as working together to preserve and transform the heritage they receive as being part of a community.