The Porosity of the Self : Husserl's Philosophy of Self and Personhood

and complex by highlighting its fundamentally permeable nature. The main argument of the book is that no one element of the self is experienceable in isolation, and that Husserl's understanding can equally accommodate the uniqueness of subjective experience as well as social, cultural, and historical in?ections, without yielding constitutive priority to one dimension over the other. This book is unique as it strives to encourage broad engagement with Husserl's work by simplifying some of his more complex texts using clear and accessible language. It shows how Husserlian phenomenology can provide a rich supplementary perspective for fields such as critical phenomenology and feminist philosophy, and offers a renewed way of engaging with Husserl's philosophy. [Publisher's text]