Abstract
Phenomenology is not confined to Edmund Husserl’s philosophy. That it comprises more is one of the main points I want to establish in this book. But it would not even be correct to say that all of Edmund Husserl’s own philosophy is phenomenology. For it was not until Husserl had nearly reached the age of forty that his philosophical thinking matured into his conception of phenomenology. Nevertheless it remains true that the central figure in the development of the Phenomenological Movement was, and still is, Edmund Husserl. Hence a discussion of his phenomenology will have to be the center of this history of the Movement.
I attempt to guide, not to instruct, but merely to show and to describe what I see. All I claim is the right to speak according to my best lights — primarily to myself and correspondingly to others — as one who has lived through a philosophical existence in all its seriousness.
Die Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phänomenologie (1936) (Husserliana VI, 17)
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Major Works
Über den Begriff der Zahl (1887).
Philosophie der Arithmetik vol. I (1891).
Logische Untersuchungen vol. I (1900), vol. II (1901); second revised edition in 3 vols. (1913).
Translations: Russian (1909), Spanish (1929), French (1959) “Philosophie als strenge Wissenschaft,” Logos I (1910), 289-314.
Translations: Spanish (1951); French (1955) by Q. Lauer; English (Crosscurrents VI (1956), 227-46, 325-44) by the same translator — fair, not free from errors; Italian (1958).
Ideen zu einer reinen Phänomenologie und phänomenologischen Philosophie vol. I (1913); new posthumous edition in Husserliana III; vol. II and III edited in Husserliana IV and V (1952).
Translations of vol. I: English (1931) by W. R. Boyce Gibson — fair, not always accurate; Spanish (1949); Italian (1950); French (1950) by Paul Ricoeur — to be recommended not only for its excellence, but for a helpful introduction and new glossary. For a condensed English account of Ideen II and III see PPR XIII (1953), 394-413, 506-514 (Alfred Schuetz).
Article “Phenomenology” in Encyclopaedia Britannica (14th ed.), vol. 17, 699-72 — a rather free translation of a still unpublished German [1] original.
Formale und transzendentale Logik (1929).
Translations: French (1957) by Suzanne Bachelard Cartesianische Meditationen (1931); published posthumously in Husserliana I (1950).
Translations: French (1931, i.e., before the German original) by J. Pfeiffer and E. Levinas — some errors; Spanish (1942); English by Dorion Cairns (1960) mostly very faithful; Japanese (1956).
Die Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phänomenologie, Parts I and II (1936); all extant parts in Husserliana VI (1954).
Translations: French (Part I and II only, in Études philosophiques IV (1949), 127-159, 229-301. — For a condensed English account see PPR XVI (1956), 380-399, and XVII (1957), 370-398 (Aron Gurwitsch).
Posthumous Publications
Erfahrung und Urteil. Untersuchungen zur Genealogie der Logik. Prepared by Ludwig Landgrebe (1939).
Die Idee der Phänomenologie. Fünf Vorlesungen (1907). Husserliana II.
Erste Philosophie (1923/24). Husserliana VII and VIII.
Monographs in French and German
BERGER, GASTON, Le Cogito dans la Philosophie de Husserl. Paris, Aubier, 1941.
Influential introduction with excellent annotated bibliography. CELMS, THEODOR, Der phänomenologische Idealismus Edmund Husserls. Riga, 1928.
A thorough critical study by a Latvian student of Husserl in Freiburg.
DIEMER, ALWIN, Edmund Husserl. Versuch einer systematischen Darstellung seiner Phänomenologie. Meisenheim am Glan, Hain, 1956.
A remarkable attempt to distill Husserl’s final philosophical position [4] from his writings and posthumous manuscripts.
LANDGREBE, LUDWIG, Phänomenologie und Metaphysik. Hamburg, Schröder, 1949.
Contains a memorial address and three important essays on major aspects of Husserl’s philosophical development.
LAUER, QUENTIN, Phénoménologie de Husserl. Essai sur la genèse de l’in tentionnalité. Paris, Presses Universitaires, 1955.
Contains a detailed study of Husserl’s full-fledged phenomenology, based chiefly on the texts published during his lifetime, and some criticisms. No attempt is made to trace the genesis of Husserl’s thought [5] back to its pre-phenomenological origins.
Important Articles in German
BECKER, Oskar, “Die Philosophie Edmund Husserls” Kantstudien XXXV (1930), 119-150.
Becker was at the time comparatively close to both Husserl and Heidegger. [1].
FINK, EUGEN, “Die phänomenologische Philosophie Edmund Husserls in der gegenwärtigen Kritik,” Kantstudien XXXVIII (1933), 319-383 An influential article, which bears Husserl’s imprimatur.
——, “Was will die Phänomenologie Edmund Husserls?” Tatwelt X (1934), 14-32.
——, Article “Husserl, Edmund” in Ziegenfuss, Werner, Philosophen lexikon, Berlin, de Gruyter 1949, I, 569-576.
The wording of the text and Husserl’s letter to Marvin Färber (The Foundations of Phenomenology, p. 17) suggest Fink’s authorship rather than Husserl’s.
——, “Das Problem der Phänomenologie Edmund Husserls” Revue internationale de Philosophie I (1938), 226-270.
Part of an uncompleted book, which was to attempt an independent interpretation of Husserl’s philosophy.
——, “Operative Begriffe in Husserl’s Phänomenologie,” Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung XI (1957), 321-37.
Large Studies in English
FARBER, MARVIN, The Foundation of Phenomenology. Edmund Husserl and the Quest for a Rigorous Science of Philosophy. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1943.
Contains valuable reports on his early writings and paraphrases of Logische Untersuchungen; critical of his later development.
——, ed., Philosophical Essays in Memory of Edmund Husserl. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1940.
Some expository but mostly critical essays on Husserl, often striking out in new directions.
LAUER, QUENTIN, S.J., The Triumph of Subjectivity. An Introduction to Transcendental Phenomenology. New York, Fordham University Press, 1958.
Mostly a condensed and slightly rearranged version of the French work mentioned above; some additions about other phenomenologists, which cannot be recommended. The book introduces Husserl’s main themes up to the Cartesian Meditations, but omits such items as the Lebenswelt.
OSBORN, ANDREW D., The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl in its Development from his Mathematical Interests to his First Conception of Phenomenology in Logical Investigations (Ph. D. Thesis, Columbia). New York, International Press, 1934.
Contains much important material on Husserl’s early development.
WELCH, E. PARL, The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl. The Origin and Development of His Phenomenology (Ph. D. Thesis, University of Southern California). New York, Columbia University Press, 1941.
Deals with Husserl’s work up to the Ideen. Extensive bibliography, not always reliable. Not to be recommended: see PPR II (1942), 219-32.
Articles in English
Ames, van Meter, “Mead and Husserl on the Self,” PPR XV (1954), 320–31.
Adorno, T. W., “Husserl and the Problem of Idealism,” Journal of Philosophy, XXXVII (1940), 5–18.
BAR-HILLEL, “Husserl’s Conception of a Purely Logical Grammar,” PPR XVII (1957), 362–69.
BECK, MAXIMILIAN, “The Last Phase of Husserl’s Phenomenology,” PPR I (1941), 479–91.
Discussion by Dorion Cairns (I, 492–98) and rejoinder (I, 498).
CAIRNS, DORION, “Results of Husserl’s Investigations,” Journal of Philosophy, XXXVI (1939), 236-238. (A remarkable attempt to state Husserl’s 27 most important insights in capsule form).
CHANDLER, ALBERT, “Professor Husserl’s Program of Philosophic Re-[1] form,” Philosophical Review XXVI (1917), 634–48.
Fulton, James Street, “Husserl’s Significance for the Theory of Truth,” Monist XLV (1935), 264–306. (Perceptive introduction, aware of the difficulties.).
Fulton, James Street, “The Cartesianism of Phenomenology,” Philosophical Review XLIX (1940), 283–308. (Excellent comparison between Descartes and Husserl).
GIBSON, W. R. BOYCE, “The Problem of Real and Ideal in the Phenomenology of Husserl,” Mind XXXIV (1925), 311–333.
GOTESKY, RUBIN, “Husserl’s Conception of Logic as Kunstlehre in the Logische Untersuchungen,” Philosophical Review XLVII (1938), 375–387 (Ph. D. thesis, New York University, 1939).
HAMILTON, KENNETH G., “Edmund Husserl’s Contribution to Phi sophy,” Journal of Philosophy XXXI (1939), 225–232.
HOOK, SIDNEY, “Husserl’s Phenomenological Idealism,” Journal of Philosophy XXVII (1930), 365–380.
KAUFMANN, FRITZ, “In memoriam Edmund Husserl,” Social Research VII (1940), 61–91.
LANZ, HENRY, “The New Phenomenology,” Monist XXXIV (1924), 511–527. (By a Russian philosopher, who had published on Husserl before coming to the States).
MERLAN, PHILIP, “Time Consciousness in Husserl and Heidegger,” PPR VIII (1947), 23–53.
MOHANTY, J. N., “‘The Object’ in Husserl’s Phenomenology,” PPR XIV [2] (1954), 343–53.
REINHARDT, KURT, “Husserl’s Phenomenology and Thomist Philosophy,” New Scholasticism XI (1937), 320–31.
SALMON, C. V., “The Starting Point of Husserl’s Philosophy,” [3] Proceedings of the Aristotelian Philosophy, XXX (1929). 55–78.
SPIEGELBERG, HERBERT, “Husserl’s and Peirce’s Phenomenologies: Coincidence or Interaction,” PPR XVII (1957), 164–85.
SPIEGELBERG, HERBERT, “Husserl’s Phenomenology and Existentialism,” to be published in Journal of Philosophy LVII (1960), 62–74.
STEWART, J. MCKELLAR, “Husserl’s Phenomenological Method,” The Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, XI (1933), 221–31.
STEWART, J. MCKELLAR, “Husserl’s Phenomenological Method,” The Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, XII (1934), 62–73.
Ph. D. Theses
CAIRNS, DORION, The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl, Harvard University, 1933.
Covers especially Husserl’s later phenomenology as known at the time.
Cairns was Husserl’s most trusted American student and translator. [1].
SCHMITT, RICHARD, G., Husserl’s Phenomenology; Reconstruction in Empiricism. Yale University, 1956.
Most Comprehensive Recent Bibliographies
ELEY, LOTHAR, “Husserl-Bibliographie (1945–1959), Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung XIII (1959), 357–67.
PATOCKA, JAN, “Husserl-Bibliographie, Revue internationale de philosophie I (1939) 374–97.
RAES, JEAN, “Supplément à 1a Bibliographie de Husserl,” Revue internationale de philosophie. IV (1950), 469–75 [2].
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Spiegelberg, H. (1965). The Pure Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl (1859–1938). In: The Phenomenological Movement. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7394-8_4
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