ABSTRACT
This chapter develops a phenomenology of the horizon that situates experience of any kind, of the given, to obey the horizon even while the horizon dilates in conjunction with life of the subject. In Experience and Judgment, Husserl highlights that horizonality activates a gestalt shift in the subject. The embodied mind and the world-horizon, as two distinct sides of experience, retain their original occupations, but simultaneously, their interchange remains an affair of mutual illumination and reciprocal stipulation. Husserl argues, in contrast to such bare empiricism, the ego fundamentally shapes the world even as the world is given as the excess of things. The living ego does so according to the intentional complex of the lifeworld. In his magisterial Essence of Manifestation, Henry associates the horizon with a tradition of modern philosophy that privileges the visible world at the expense of another domain of manifestation, what he calls the sublayer of manifestation of the invisible.
