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Amiel’s “New Phenomenology”

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In Edmund Husserl’s confidential diary published by Walter Biemel there occurs under the date of September 25, 1906 the following isolated reference to the name Amiel:

Hold yourself ready for the great purpose and be prepared. Cf. Amiel and the many beautiful words of Carlyle.2

From Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 49 (1967), 201–14.

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  1. Persönliche Aufzeichnungen,“ Philosophy and Phenomenological Researcn XVI (1956), 300.

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  2. See now the Postscript 1966 for the solution of the puzzle.

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  3. Tagebiicher. Deutsch von Dr. Rosa Schapiro. München und Leipzig, R. Piper and Co., 1905.

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  4. Persönliche Aufzeichnungen, Ibid.,p. 294f.

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  5. Ernst Merriam-Genast, Arnie! inr Spiegel der europaeschen Kritik 1881–1931, Marburg (Lahn) 1931, especially p. 165f.; Hedwig Hilz, Amid und die Deutschen,Münster 1930, p. 61ff.

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  6. Marvin Farber, ed., Philosophic Thought in France and the United States,Buffalo 1950. p. 67.

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  7. Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Fragments d’un journal intime, ed. Bernard Bouvier, Paris, Editions Stock, 1949, p. 81.

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  8. For another unexplained reference, see I. M. Bochenski, Die zeitgenössischen Denkmethoden, München, Lehnen Verlag, 1959, p. 22.

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  9. It is a matter of profound regret that according to a letter I received from Monsieur Bopp this edition, after three volumes, has come to a halt.

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  10. February 4, 1881, ed. Bouvier, p. 504.

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  11. Bouvier, p. 83.

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  12. Ibid.

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  13. Bouvier. p. 188.

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  14. Scherer I, 235 (Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Fragments d’un journal intime. Genève 1884).

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  15. Bouvier, p. 250.

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  16. Bouvier, p. 171.

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  17. Scherer I, 234.

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  18. An allusion to a celebrated passage in the second part of Goethe’s Faust (lines 621ff.), repeated in other parts of the Journal,and, incidentally, quite often in Husserl’s writings.

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  19. September 9, 1880; Bouvier, p. 484f.

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  20. Bouvier, pp. 371, 423f., 507.

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  21. August 20, 1860; Bouvier, p. 139.

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  22. E. g., September 9, 1850 (B., p. 50); August 20, 1869 (B., p. 243); May 31, 1876 (B., p. 370); July 8, 1880 (B., p. 477).

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  23. April 23, 1871 (B., p. 282); February 3, 1862 (B., p. 153).

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  24. Scherer I, 234f.

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  25. August 31, 1856 (B., p. 115); May 31, 1880 (B., p. 46).

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  26. September 4, 1873 (B., p. 325).

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  27. July 26, 1857 (B., p. 122f.).

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  28. August 14, 1869 (B., p. 243).

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  29. July 3, 1874 (B., p. 342); also May 2, 1877 (B., p. 398).

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  30. April 23, 1871 (B., p. 283).

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  31. September 27, 1871 (B., p. 74).

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  32. July 12, 1876 (B.; p. 371).

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  33. May 11, 1853 (B., p. 87).

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  34. About these possibilities see also the article by Georges Poulet, La Rêverie tournoyante d’ Amiel, Les Temps Modernes XVII (1961) pp. 1–51, based largely on unpublished material.

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  35. For another reference to this “expansion” see also the entry to the Journal of May 11, 1853 (B., p. 86).

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  36. February 3, 1862 (B., p. 153).

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  37. See my The Phenomenological Movement. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, Second edition, 1965, p. 140f.

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  38. Bouvier, p. 21.

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  39. Apparently an error of the English translation; in Scherer and Bouvier the date is March 26, 1851.

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Spiegelberg, H. (1981). Amiel’s “New Phenomenology”. In: The Context of the Phenomenological Movement. Phaenomenologica, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3270-3_6

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