This paper is an attempt to reinterpret the concept of "kinesthetic consciousness", a central notion of phenomenology, and through it to open a new perspective onto the problem of intersubjectivity. In §1, I refer to the "map-phenomenon" as a typical example of "objective space" representation, and show that the concept of spatial objectivity already presupposes subjective experience. In §2, Husserl's theory of "kinesthetic consciousness" is introduced as the structure of this experience. In §3, I attempt a reinterpretation of this theory by showing that the "here" of kinesthetic consciotisness functions as a transcendental condition of world orientation, in contrast to the empirically localized 'here', which is merely a point in objective space. Finally, in §4, we find, according to this interpretation, that the most original intersubjectivity consists in the non-localized "here", which operates essentially and necessarily in the plural.
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