Classical Phenomenology Applied to Gender Identity

This book explains the positions of Immanuel Kant, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger in relation to the unity and complexity of human being as gendered. It comprises a self-aware self-critical approach to qualitative appearances of human being. It provides the intellectual tools needed to understand the existential dimensions of what it is to be human. It presents the fine detail of the tension between Husserl and Heidegger during the years when they were colleagues – and shows how their views differed.

Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger focused on the unity and complexity of human beings, within the demand for justification by encountering the real world made by Immanuel Kant. The radical return to Kant that the original phenomenology made is the metaphysics of real sensuality and facticity. Metaphysics in this sense concerns starting science from real cognitions and experiences people have first-hand and second-hand, not what science alone shows to be the case. The original project was to make ideal a priori conclusions for an accurate understanding of natural and human reality.

The original theoretical project of pure psychology was to idealize the temporal being of consciousness as it exists socially and relationally between people, to understand others in social contexts and across historical time. This perspective exceeds the personal preservation of the sense of a unified sense of self, between birth and death. It concludes on the project of idealizing human roles and identities as they tangibly exist in multiple sense-fields. Ideal conclusions exist in the current practices of sciences. Mathematics, probability theories, logic and fundamental constant ideals are used in empirical quantitative sciences and empirical qualitative studies.