Delia Popa, “Between Self-Identification and Self-Objectivation: Alienation, Reification, and Reactivation”, in: Andreea Smaranda Aldea, Delia Popa (eds.), Doing a Phenomenology of Political Life, Springer, 2025.
In this paper, I examine the way in which temporal reconfigurations of experience open new arenas of subjectivation and question our established positions from the standpoint of a process of sense-formation, whose dynamic undergirds the whole field of experience. By investigating these transformations, I am interested in thinking about the way in which contingent turns, discoveries, and events participate in the phenomenological foundation of subjective life, shaping its system of reality and determining its freedom. Investigating the problem of the ego in Husserl’s phenomenology, I examine its self-objectification and its self-variation, insisting on the formation of its material historicity in relationship to a reification inscribed in the modes of production and reproduction of our society.