Husserl and the discovery of the Earth: Prolegomena to an archaeology of meaning/Husserl e a descoberta da Terra: Prolegomenos para uma arqueologia do sentido

In this article, I examine the transcendental function of the concept of earth for the constitution of spatiality and temporality in Edmund Husserl's late phenomenology. First, I analyze the problem of the bifurcation of experience between the apperception of the natural sciences and the experience of the life-world, showing how the epoche of the natural sciences resolves this paradox by imposing a limitation on the naturalist claim of hegemony over truth and knowledge. Next, I argue that the limitation of naturalism allows an eidetic differentiation of phenomena, establishing the possibility of an analysis of spatiality according to the genetic relationship between body (Korper), living body (Leib), and earth (Erde). In this case, the earth is not simply an object of experience, but a pre-subjective element of the conditions of possibility of experience. Finally, I show the consequences of the transcendental function of the earth for the analysis of temporality and historicity. On the one hand, Husserl's late phenomenology is characterized by a territorialization of meaning, in which the field of experience is rooted in the intersubjectivity of a plurality of territories organized in the same terrestrial space: territory and earth are horizons of possible experience that are in a relationship of crossing and intertwining, which indicates an overcoming of the classic division between nature and culture. On the other hand, this territorialization of meaning has an important consequence for phenomenological philosophy since it allows us to formulate the program of an archeology of meaning. Keywords: Phenomenology. Nature. Earth. Territory. Husserl. Merleau-Ponty. No presente artigo, examino a funcao transcendental do conceito de Terra para a constituicao da espacialidade e da temporalidade na fenomenologia tardia de Edmund Husserl. Primeiramente, analiso o problema da bifurcacao da experiencia entre a apercepcao das ciencias naturais e a experiencia do mundo da vida, mostrando como a epoche das ciencias naturais resolve esse paradoxo ao impor uma limitacao a pretensao de hegemonia do naturalismo sobre a verdade e o conhecimento. A seguir, argumento que a limitacao do naturalismo permite uma diferenciacao eidetica dos fenomenos, estabelecendo a possibilidade de uma analise da espacialidade segundo a relacao genetica entre corpo (Korper), corpo vivo (Leib) e Terra (Erde). Nesse caso, a Terra nao e simplesmente um objeto da experiencia, mas um elemento pre-subj