Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: First Book: General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology

Edmund Husserl

Springer Science & Business Media, Sep 30, 1983 - Philosophy - 401 pages

the Logische Untersuchungen,l phenomenology has been conceived as a substratum of empirical psychology, as a sphere comprising "imma nental" descriptions of psychical mental processes, a sphere compris ing descriptions that - so the immanence in question is understood - are strictly confined within the bounds of internal experience. It 2 would seem that my protest against this conception has been oflittle avail; and the added explanations, which sharply pinpointed at least some chief points of difference, either have not been understood or have been heedlessly pushed aside. Thus the replies directed against my criticism of psychological method are also quite negative because they miss the straightforward sense of my presentation. My criticism of psychological method did not at all deny the value of modern psychology, did not at all disparage the experimental work done by eminent men. Rather it laid bare certain, in the literal sense, radical defects of method upon the removal of which, in my opinion, must depend an elevation of psychology to a higher scientific level and an extraordinary amplification ofits field of work. Later an occasion will be found to say a few words about the unnecessary defences of psychology against my supposed "attacks.

Contents

• III: 5
• IV: 7
• V: 8
• VI: 11
• VII: 12
• VIII: 14
• IX: 15
• X: 17
• XI: 18
• XII: 20
• XIII: 23
• XIV: 24
• XV: 26
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• XX: 33
• XXI: 35
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• XXX: 53
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• LXXX: 177
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• XC: 211
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• C: 236
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• CXXX: 300
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• CXXXVIII: 326
• CXXXIX: 329
• CXL: 331
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• CXLV: 342
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• CXLVIII: 349
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• CL: 353
• CLI: 355
• CLII: 359
• CLIII: 363
• CLIV: 364
• CLV: 366
• CLVI: 371
• CLVII: 372

About the author

Born to Jewish parents in what is now the Czech Republic, Edmund Husserl began as a mathematician, studying with Karl Theodor Weierstrass and receiving a doctorate in 1881. He went on to study philosophy and psychology with Franz Brentano and taught at Halle (1887--1901), Gottingen (1901--16), and Freiburg (1916--29). Because of his Jewish background, he was subject to persecution by the Nazis, and after his death his unpublished manuscripts had to be smuggled to Louvain, Belgium, to prevent their being destroyed. Husserl is the founder of the philosophical school known as phenomenology. The history of Husserl's philosophical development is that of an endless philosophical search for a foundational method that could serve as a rational ground for all the sciences. His first major book, Philosophy of Arithmetic (1891), was criticized by Gottlob Frege for its psychologism, which changed the whole direction of Husserl's thinking. The culmination of his next period was the Logical Investigations (1901). His views took an idealistic turn in the Ideas Toward a Pure Phenomenology (1911). Husserl wrote little from then until the late 1920s, when he developed his idealism in a new direction in Formal and Transcendental Logic (1929) and Cartesian Meditations (1932). His thought took yet another turn in his late lectures published as Crisis of the European Sciences (1936), which emphasize the knowing I's rootedness in "life world." Husserl's influence in the twentieth century has been great, not only through his own writings, but also through his many distinguished students, who included Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, Eugen Fink, Emmanuel Levinas, and Roman Ingarden.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy: First Book: General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology; Volume 2 of Husserliana: Edmund Husserl – Collected Works
• Author: Edmund Husserl
• Translated by: F. Kersten
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media, 1983
• ISBN: 9024728525, 9789024728527
• Length: 401 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology