ABSTRACT
What is the connection between experience and history? This chapter examines various aspects of experience, as described by phenomenology, that link it to history and the historical world. These are temporality, intentionality, world, intersubjectivity, and community. The emphasis in these descriptions is on the continuity of experience, but historical experience is marked as much, if not more, by discontinuity and rupture. The essay concludes by examining different types of discontinuity in the experience of history.
