Interpreting Husserl

1. Front Matter

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2. Husserl’s Lengthening Shadow: A Historical Introduction

   1. Husserl’s Lengthening Shadow: A Historical Introduction

      • David Carr

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3. Husserl

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Phenomenology and Relativism

      • David Carr

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   3. The ‘Fifth Meditation’ and Husserl’s Cartesianism

      • David Carr

      Pages 45-69

   4. Husserl’s Crisis and the Problem of History

      • David Carr

      Pages 71-95

   5. History, Phenomenology and Reflection

      • David Carr

      Pages 97-114

4. Husserl and Others

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Intentionality: Husserl and the Analytic Approach

      • David Carr

      Pages 117-136

   3. The Problem of the Non-Empirical Ego: Husserl and Kant

      • David Carr

      Pages 137-156

   4. Findlay, Husserl and the Epoché: Realism and Idealism

      • David Carr

      Pages 157-178

   5. Interpretation and Self-Evidence: Husserl and Hermeneutics

      • David Carr

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   6. The Future Perfect: Temporality and Priority in Husserl, Heidegger and Dilthey

      • David Carr

      Pages 197-211

   7. World, World-View, Lifeworld: Husserl and the Conceptual Relativists

      • David Carr

      Pages 213-225

   8. The Lifeworld Revisted: Husserl and Some Recent Interpreters

      • David Carr

      Pages 227-246

5. Husserl and Beyond

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   2. Time-Consciousness and Historical Consciousness

      • David Carr

      Pages 249-266

   3. ‘Personalities of a Higher Order’

      • David Carr

      Pages 267-279

   4. Cogitamus Ergo Sumus: The Intentionality of the First-Person Plural

      • David Carr

      Pages 281-296

6. Back Matter

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Edmund Husserl's importance for the philosophy of our century is immense, but his influence has followed a curious path. Rather than continuous it has been recurrent, ambulatory and somehow irrepressible: no sooner does it wane in one locality than it springs up in another. After playing a major role in Germany during his lifetime, Husserl had been filed away in the history-books of that country when he was discovered by the French during and after World War II. And just as the phenomenological phase of French philosophy was ending in the 1960's, Husserl became important in North America. There his work was first taken seriously by a sizable minority of dissenters from the Anglo-American establish­ ment, the tradition of conceptual and linguistic analysis. More recently, some philosophers within that tradition have drawn on certain of Husserl's central concepts (intentionality, the noema) in addressing problems in the philosophy of mind and the theory of meaning. This is not to say that Husserl's influence in Europe has alto­ gether died out. It may be that he is less frequently discussed there directly, but (as I try to argue in the introductory essay of this volume) his influence lives on in subtler forms, in certain basic attitudes, strategies and problems.

• Edmund Husserl
• Martin Heidegger
• concept
• hermeneutics
• phenomenology

• The University of Ottawa, Canada

  David Carr

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