ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the concept of open intersubjectivity. It shows that the idea of completely anonymous co-constitutors is an idealization. The chapter discusses the asymmetric structure of social perception and the sedimentation of experience, and challenge the assumption of the anonymity of the “anyone.” Edmund Husserl touches upon the depth-dimension in his account of typification. He argues that the ways in which we categorize things, environments, other people, situations, and actions builds on our past experiences of particular exemplars. Husserl illustrates the concept of “open intersubjectivity” by noting that the world appears as “being there for anyone”. He introduces the idea in connection with his theory of perceptual “appresentation” or “co-presentation”. To be sure, Husserl’s ambitious aim is to disclose the constitution of the objective world and unite the sciences, and his analyses concerning open intersubjectivity and appresentation mainly serve this purpose.
