lectures 1923/24 and related texts from the manuscripts (1920-1925) /
First Statement of Responsibility
Edmund Husserl ; translated by Sebastian Luft, Thane M. Naberhaus.
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Dordrecht, The Netherlands :
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Springer Nature,
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[2019]
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1 online resource
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Collected works / Edmund Husserl ;
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v. 14
CONTENTS NOTE
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Intro; Table of Contents; Introduction to the Translation; I. General Introduction to Husserl's Lecture Course on First Philosophy; 1. The Historical Context; 2. A Simple Definition of Phenomenology; 3. The Very Idea of Phenomenology as First Philosophy; i. The idea of a first philosophy in the history of philosophy; ii. Husserl's idea of first philosophy (sans phenomenology); iii. First Philosophy as grounding a fully justified life of ultimate self-responsibility. Becoming an honest philosopher; iv. Phenomenology as the true philosophia perennis, asymptotically approached
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3. Summary: Core Topics of the Main Text of the Volumei. The idea of a system of phenomenology and its systematic introduction; ii. The place of phenomenology in the history of Western philosophy; iii. The breadth of the phenomenological reduction and phenomenology as transcendental idealism; III. Themes from the Supplemental Texts; 1. Discussions of figures in the history of modern philosophy: Descartes, Kant, others (e.g., the Neo-Kantians); 2. Self-critical reflections; 3. Further ways into the reduction; 4. Metaphysical and metaphilosophical reflections
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i. Critical history of ideas as critical history of problems and the dialectics of the history of western philosophyii. Husserl's Interpretation of the Main Figures in Western Philosophy (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Hume, Kant & the Neo-Kantians); 2. Part II (Theory of the Phenomenological Reduction); i. Opening up the full scope of transcendental subjectivity; ii. The phenomenology of the phenomenological attitude and the splitting of the ego; iii. The novel presentation of the reduction and phenomenology as transcendental idealism (departure from Cartesianism?)
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IV. The Text in Light of the Early ReceptionV. Editorial Matters; VI. Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Part One. Critical History of Ideas; Section One. From Plato's Idea of Philosophy to the Beginnings of its Modern Realization in Descartes; Chapter One. The Idea of Philosophy and its Historical Origin; Lecture 1. On the Historical Task of Giving Phenomenology the Developmental Form of First Philosophy; Lecture 2. Plato's Dialectic and the Idea of a Philosophical Science; Chapter Two. The Grounding of Logic and the Limits of Formal-Apophantic Analytics
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v. Phenomenology as first philosophy: as mathesis universalis, as universal science, as absolutely justified, as "ultimately grounding science"vi. First Philosophy as transcendental critique of cognition. Consciousness as the absolute; vii. First Philosophy as Eidetic Phenomenology and Metaphysics as Second Philosophy; viii. "First Phenomenology" as Self-Critique of Phenomenological Experience (Apodictic Critique).; II. Overview over the Lecture & Survey of Main Themes; 1. Part I (Critical History of Ideas)
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This volume presents, for the first time in English, Husserl's seminal 1923/24 lecture course 'First Philosophy' ('Erste Philosophie') together with a selection of material from the famous research manuscripts of the same time period. The lecture course is divided into two systematic, yet interrelated parts ('Critical History of Ideas' and 'Theory of the Phenomenological Reduction'). It has long been recognized by scholars as among the most important of the many lecture courses he taught in his career. Indeed it was deemed as crucially important by Husserl himself, who composed it with a view toward eventual publication. It is unsurprising, then, that 'First Philosophy' is the only lecture course that is consistently counted among his major works. In addition to furnishing valuable insights into Husserl's understanding of the history of philosophy, 'First Philosophy' is his most sustained treatment of the phenomenological reduction, the central concept of his philosophical methodology. The selection of supplemental texts expands on the topics treated in the lectures, but also add other themes from Husserl's vast oeuvre. The manuscript material is especially worthwhile, because in it, Husserl offers candid self-criticisms of his publicly enunciated words, and also makes forays into areas of his philosophy that he was loath to publicize, lest his words be misunderstood. As Husserl's position as a key contributor to contemporary thought has, with the passage of time, become increasingly clear, the demand for access to his writings in English has steadily grown. This translation strives to meet this demand by providing English-speaking readers access to this central Husserlian text.