The Idea of Phenomenology: A Translation of Die Idee der Phänomenologie Husserliana II: 8 (Edmund Husserl Collected Works) - Softcover

Husserl, Edmund

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ISBN 10: 0792355008 ISBN 13: 9780792355007

Publisher: Springer, 2000

Synopsis

3 same lecture he characterizes the phenomenology of knowledge, more specifically, as the "theory of the essence of the pure phenomenon of knowing" (see below, p. 36). Such a phenomenology would advance the "critique of knowledge," in which the problem of knowledge is clearly formulated and the possibility of knowledge rigorously secured. It is important to realize, however, that in these lectures Husserl will not enact, pursue, or develop a phenomenological critique of knowledge, even though he opens with a trenchant statement of the problem of knowledge that such a critique would solve. Rather, he seeks here only to secure the possibility of a phe­ nomenological critique of knowledge; that is, he attempts to secure the possibility of the knowledge of the possibility of knowledge, not the possibil­ ity of knowledge in general (see below, pp. 37-39). Thus the work before us is not phenomenological in the straightforward sense, but pre­ phenomenological: it sets out to identify and satisfy the epistemic require­ ments of the phenomenological critique of knowledge, not to carry out that critique itself. To keep these two levels of theoretical inquiry distinct, I will call the level that deals with the problem of the possibility of knowledge the "critical level"; the level that deals with the problem of the possibility of the knowledge of the possibility of knowledge the "meta-criticallevel.

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This text comprises a translation of five lectures delivered in 1907 at the University of Gottingen. In it the author lays out the philosophical problem of knowledge, indicates the requirements for its solution, and introduces the phenomenological method of reduction. For those interested in the genesis and development of Husserl's phenomenology, this text affords a glimpse into the epistemological motivation of his work, his concept of intentionality, and the formation of central phenomenological concepts that will later go by the names of "transcendental consciousness", the "noema", and the like.

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• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0792355008
• ISBN 13: 9780792355007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 77