The Functions of the “Primary (Living) Present” in the Husserl’s Late Phenomenοlogy

This paper examines the contensive and methodological functions of the “primary (living) present” in the Husserl's late phenomenology. In the first part of the paper transcendental being as a “concrete primarily living present” and transcendental life as a “Heraclitean streaming present” are thematized. In the second part I examine the role of an investigation into the living present in the context of a change of attitude. In the conclusion special attention is given to the primal fact of the “living present” and to the situation of “auto-discovery” in reflection.