Protention in Husserl’s Phenomenology

Nikos Soueltzis completed his PhD in philosophy at the University of Patras, Greece, in 2017. While he was working on his PhD, he visited the Husserl Archives at the University of Cologne as guest researcher. As a PhD student, he participated in a research project on “Habit and Skill” financed by the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology. In 2017 he was awarded the Directors’ Memorial Prize offered by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology (CARP) at the 48thHusserl Circle Annual Meeting. He has served as adjunct lecturer at the University of Patras and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has translated in Greek Husserl’s Vorlesungen zur Phänomenologie des inneren Zeitbewusstseins (Crete University Press, forthcoming) and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Crete working on his personal project: “Time and Body. The experience of bodily temporality as the basis of body’s physicality:a phenomenological analysis,” financed by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY). His main research interests include: phenomenology of time-consciousness and memory, phenomenology of bodily awareness, phenomenology of self-awareness. He currently explores the broad region of phenomena that fall under the rubric of “bodily temporality.”

• Introduction.- Part 1. Phenomenology of Time-Consciousness.- Chapter 1. Preliminary Remarks.- Chapter 2. Phenomenological Reduction and Suspension of Objective Time.- Part 2. Phenomenological Analysis of Retentional Consciousness.- Chapter 3. Retention or Primary Memory.- Part 4. Phenomenological Analysis of Protentional Consciousness.- Chapter 4. Protention as Phenomenon.- Chapter 5. Elements of a Material Analysis of Protention.- Chapter 6. Protention and Affectivity — The Affective Relief.- Chapter 7. Protention and Instincts.- Chapter 8. Experiential Elements of the Affective Relief and the Role of Protention.- Chapter 9. Conclusions.- Index.