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When Husserl explicitly construed his phenomenology as first philosophy, he knew that he was placing himself into a long tradition in Western philosophy.1 One can witness the emergence of this project of phenomenology as first philosophy already in the first decade of the twentieth century, in the wake of the establishing phenomenology as mathesis universalis.
*Thanks go to the following colleagues who have given me helpful feedback on earlier versions of this paper: Ullrich Melle, Rochus Sowa, Dieter Lohmar, Henning Peucker, Thane M. Naberhaus, Volker Peckhaus, Daniel Dwyer, Steven G. Crowell, as well as the members of my graduate seminar on Early German Idealism in the spring of 2009 at Marquette University, who continued to pose penetrating questions, which, hopefully, helped me clarify my thoughts. All translations from the German, unless otherwise noted, are mine. Any remaining shortcomings are entirely my fault.
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Luft*, S. (2010). Phenomenology as First Philosophy: A Prehistory. In: Mattens, F., Jacobs, H., Ierna, C. (eds) Philosophy, Phenomenology, Sciences. Phaenomenologica, vol 200. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0071-0_6
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