How to speak in(to) the sphere of planets: 1

Self-temporalization through derepresentation [Ent-Gegenwartigung], so to speak (through recollection), has its analogue in my self-alienation [Ent-Fremdung] (empathy as a derepresentation of a higher level-derepresentation of my primal presence [Ur-prasenz] into a merely presentified [vergegenwartigte] primal presence). Thus, in me, "another I" achieves ontic validity as copresent [komprasent] with his own ways of being self-evidently verified, which are obviously quite different from those of "sense" perception."

The concepts of "derepresentation" and "self-alienation" both indicate the reciprocity involved in these acts of re-presentation: it is not only a question of bringing something "absent" into "presence" i.e., depriving something if its otherness. It also works the other way around: the primal presence is "decentered" when the ego positions itself in a presence other than its own. Theunissen designates this decentering an "alternation" (Veranderung), and distinguishes the "immanent alteration" of recollection from the "transcendent alteration" of empathy (Foot Note 1). Through these forms of re-presentation it is possible for me to free myself from the absolute now and here of original presentation, and place myself in a position which is not strictly speaking mine. Thus, I turn myself into something which I am not, and gain access to perspectives other than that of original presentation. This ability to transcend the perspective of the ego is a necessary prerequisite for the constitution of objectivity. [...] It is only through acts of empathic re-presentation that intersubjectivity is constituted, and, through its multiplicity of perspectives, a "nature" common to a plurality of subjects (Foot Note 2).  

Venus: The atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface is 92 times that of the Earth.

1. Empathy and recollection are positing forms of re-presentational consciousness i.e., they intend their objects as existing or as having existed, but not as accessible through acts of presentational consciousness. [...] The most basic feature that they have in common is the nested structure, which makes possible the appearing of a second flow or track, of consciousness inside the first. In the case of empathy the additional track is the flow of the alter ego, in the case of recollection it is a past section of the ego's own experience.


2. Daniel Birnbaum, The Hospitality of Presence: Problems of Otherness in Husserl's Phenemenology, (New York: SternbergPress, 2008)