Abstract
“The theme” of issue 6 of B@belonline 2020, edited by Mariannina Failla and Alice Pugliese, collects the results of the work of a new generation of scholars, gathered for some years around two research experiences located in different times and spaces: the collective translation of the first section of volume XLII of Husserliana entitled Phänomenologie des Unbewusstseins und die Grenzprobleme von Geburt, Schlaf und Tod, and the establishment of the International Research Summer School on Genetic Phenomenology at the Institute for Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw as part of the International Network Genetic Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, coordinated by the phenomenologist and psychoanalyst Jagna Brudzińska. The choice of the word ‘horizon’ in the title wants to direct readers’ attention to the vision of phenomenology as a method of analysis that iterates innovation, as a search for normative recursiveness and, at the same time, openness to the new, to the different, to conflict, to perceptual checkmate.
The issue presents contributions ranging from the analysis of the concept of phenomenon to history, seen not only as the phylogenesis of consciousness, but also as a process of structuring cultural and social intersubjective relations, on which the conceptual instrumentation of science itself is based. In spite of their different approach, the attention of the essays is turned to the incidence of the existential dimension, effective on some specific cardinal concepts of phenomenology, as phenomenon, world, science.