SUBJECTIVITY, OPENNESS AND PLURALITY: ON THE BACKGROUND OF EDMUND HUSSERL'S PHENOMENOLOGICAL REDUCTION

There are many forms of subjectivity and intersubjectivity and this constitutes a complex problem in the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and in the philosophy inspired by it as well. This essay will look at this problem in the connection to the phenomenological reduction as methodological access to it, and to the interpretations of the thesis that subjectivity is intersubjectivity. This text will consider three ways of reading this thesis. The first and the most common possibility is to look at it from the side of subjectivity; the second possibility presents the argument from the side of intersubjectivity. The third way is paradoxical: to try to stay in the middle, to see that the ego and the other (alter) are connected inside and out, from the side of subjectivity and intersubjectivity. Then this essay will consider practical issues that are very important (existential) for key tasks of life of man among others, such as the phenomena of plurality, limit, alterity, and solitude, the absence of other on the one side, and on the other side density, the crowd, and the reduction of people to a summary, by which they lose their own uniqueness.