ABSTRACT
Many phenomenologists have a general sense of Husserl’s phenomenology of inner time-consciousness, but it is easy to get lost in his abstract analyses. Beginning with a review of the essential components of Husserl’s structure of inner time-consciousness, this chapter then turns to a consideration of how Husserl’s analyses of “passive synthesis” add depth to his understanding of time-consciousness. We then examine how the structure of time functions at several levels – from the lowest level of hyletic flow, through the sedimentation of experiences in passive synthesis, and into objective and intersubjective constitution. Although Husserl’s work on inner time-consciousness is often quite abstract, it seems clear that it underlies his analyses in almost all (if not all) of his phenomenological analyses.
