Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology

CONTENTS

CONTENTSI IX PREFACE Xlll ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 1 INTRODUCTION 1 Edmund Husserl: A Biographical Sketch 5 The Husserl Archives 7 Periodizations of Husserl's Development 9 Outline of Husserl's Phenomenology 28 CHAPTER ONE Introduction to the Encyclopaedia Article 28 Text 30 Synopsis 32 Commentary 32 The Origin of Husserl's Phenomenology 39 Phenomenology as Descriptive Psychology: Husserl's Original View 47 DIVISION ONE: Phenomenological Psychology 48 CHAPTER TWO Pure Science of Nature and Pure Psychology 48 Text 50 Synopsis 51 Commentary 51 The Genesis of the Idea of Phenomenological Psychology 52 Husserl's View on Empirical Psychology: "Eidetic Psychology" 56 Husserl's View on Empirical and Eidetic Sciences 57 Fact and Essence 62 Regional Ontologies and Phenomenology 68 Empirical Psychology, Pure Psychology, and Psychophysiology 74 CHAPTER THREE The Purely Psychical as Given in Experience: Intentionality 74 Text 80 Synopsis 82 Commentary 82 Experience, Intuition, Evidence 88 Experience of the Purely Psychical 91 Intentionality 92 Intentionality in Logical Investigations 94 Intentionality in the Later Works 96 Static Description of Intentionality 101 Dynamic Description of Intentionality 104 Intentional Analysis 110 CHAPTER FOUR The Field of the Purely Psychical, the Phenomenological Reduction, and Genuine Inner Experience 110 Text 116 Synopsis 118 Commentary 118 Phenomenological Reduction 118 Necessity of the Phenomenological Reduction 120 Description of the Phenomenological Reduction 128 CHAPTER FIVE The Eidetic Reduction: Phenomenological Psychology as an Eidetic Science 128 Text 132 Synopsis 132 Commentary 132 Eidetic Intuition 134 Eidos and Ideation 134 Introduction 135 Naturalistic Misconceptions 137 Existence and Our Knowledge of Essences 139 The Method of Free Variation 144 CHAPTER SIX The Function of Phenomenological Psychology for Empirical Psychology 144 Text 150 Synopsis 152 Commentary 152 The Function of Phenomenological Psychology for Empirical Psychology 155 Constitution 155 Historical Introduction 160 Constitutional Problems 165 Constitutional Problems Pertaining to the Ego 173 DIVISION TWO: From Phenomenological Psychology to Transcendental Phenomenology 174 CHAPTER SEVEN The Transcendental Problem: . Its Origin and Its Quasi-Solution by Psychologism 174 Text 184 Synopsis 188 Commentary 188 On the Origin of Psychologism and the Need for a Transcendental Turn 199 On the Meaning of the Term "Transcendental" in Kant and HusserI 206 CHAPTER EIGHT The Transcendental Reduction 206 Text 212 Synopsis 214 Commentary 214 The Transcendental Reduction 218 Absolute Consciousness as the Theme of Transcendental Phenomenology 221 Natural and Transcendental Reflection 224 The Doctrinal Content of the Transcendental Reduction 228 CHAPTER NINE Pure Psychology as Propaedeutic to Transcendental Phenomenology 228 Text 232 Synopsis 233 Commentary 233 On the Phenomenological-Psychological and Transcendental Reductions in Hussed's Crisis 234 The Reductions in the Period between 1925 and 1931 236 The Reductions in the Last Sections of Crisis 240 Critical Reflections 245 DIVISION THREE: Transcendental Phenomenology as First Philosophy 246 CHAPTER TEN Transcendental Phenomenology as Ontology: Its Function for the Eidetic and the Empirical Sciences 246 Text 252 Synopsis 254 Commentary 254 Transcendental Phenomenology and Other Forms of Knowledge 254 Phenomenology and Ontology 258 Phenomenology and the Sciences 261 Constitutional Problems Pertaining to the Transcendental Ego Itself .261 The Problem of the Self-constitution of the Transcendental Ego 269 Transcendental Idealism 270 Time and Consciousness of Time 270 Some Historical Observations 272 Analysis of Our Consciousness of Inherently Temporal Objects 277 Intersubjectivity 277 The Problem of Intersubjectivity: Attempts at a Solution 281 The Sphere of Transcendental Being as Monadological Intersubjectivity 300 CHAPTER ELEVEN Phenomenology as the All-embracing Philosophy and the Science of the Ultimate and Highest Problems 300 Text 304 Synopsis 305 Commentary 305 First and Second Philosophy 311 On Husserl's Conception of Metaphysics 313 The Function of Transcendental Phenomenology for the Life of Humanity 318 CHAPTER TWELVE The Phenomenological Resolution of All Philosophical Antitheses 318 Text 322 Synopsis 323 Commentary 323 Toward the Resolution ofAll Philosophical Antitheses: Husserl's Transcendental Idealism 329 The Concern of Transcendental Phenomenology with the Life-world 329 The World as an Important Theme for Phenomenological Analysis 335 The Life-world in Crisis 347 EPILOGUE 349 BIBLIOGRAPHY 357 INDEX ...