I and the Other Matter and Experience of time in Phenomenology

The aim of this study is to show how, in phenomenology, the relationship between solipsism and alterity is closely connected to the two concepts of matter and temporality. Openness to the Other has in fact two aspects: the first considers sensation and a perceived property as being endowed with a motor physiognomy; the second consists in considering the past as prior to the present, or the now. The subjectivity that emerges is temporal and to a large degree impersonal. In it the representational structure, or map-producing activity, is to a large degree reconfigured in favor of the motor and behavioral dimension. Similarly, focus on the essential character of subjectivity is progressively replaced by a search for processes of individuation starting from a common, inter-corporeal and integrated ontological dimension.