Phenomenology and the Problem of History: A Study of Husserl's Transcendental Philosophy

Contents

Preface to the New Edition xi 6 / Husserl's New Concept of the World: The LifeWorld 134 The Concept of the Life-World 136 The Earlier Concept of World: the Ideas 142 Mter the Ideas ISO The Cartesian Meditations 154 7 / Life-World, Historical Reduction, and the Structure of the Crisis 162 The Old and the New Conceptions of World 164 Is the Life-World Compatible with Transcendental Phenomenology? 172 Is the Historical Reduction Compatible with Transcendental Phenomenology? 178 A Note on the Composition of the Crisis 181 A Tentative Conclusion 185 8 / Ambiguities in the Concept of the Life-World 190 The Cultural and the Perceptual Worlds 194 Do Cultural and Perceptual Worlds Have Anything in Common? 200 A Possible Solution to the Problem 207 9 / Experience and Judgment and the Problem of Historicism 212 A Major Problem Raised by Experience and Judgment 219 The Rejection of Reflection 225 Summary 231 10 / Historical Relativity and Transcendental Philosophy 237 From Historical Reduction to Historicism 238 Historicism and Skepticism 246 The Problems of "Partial Historicism" 252 II I The Project of Transcendental Philosophy 260 Reflection and Historical Reduction 261 Philosophy and the Tradition 267 Index 279 ...