Introduction to the Logical Investigations: A Draft of a Preface to the Logical Investigations (1913)

ISBN-13: 9789024717118 / Angielski / Miękka / 1975 / 62 str.

Edmund Husserl; P. J. Bossert; C. H. Peters

Opis

TO THE LOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS A DRAFT OF A PREFACE TO THE LOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS ( 1913) Edited by EUGEN FINK Translated with Introductions by PHILIP J. BOSSERT and CURTIS H. PETERS MARTINUS NIJHOFF THE HAGUE 1975 (c) I975 by Martinus Nijhoff. The Hague. Netherlands All rights reserved. including the right to translate or to reproduce this book or parts thereof in any form ISBN-I3: 978-90-247-1711-8 e-ISBN-I3: 978-94-010-1655-1 DOl: 10. 1007/978-94-010-1655-1 TO HERBERT SPIEGELBERG ESTEEMED SCHOLAR, MENTOR, FRIEND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to express our thanks to H. L. Van Breda, director of the Husserl-Archiv (Louvain), for his approval and encouragement of this project, and to Professor Dr. Gerhart Husserl, Professor Dr. Eugen Fink and the editors of Tijdschrift voor Philosophie for their permission to undertake it. We also owe a debt of appreciation to Dr. Karl Schuhmann of the Catholic University of Louvain and to Dr. Elmar Holenstein, Dr. Edi Marbach and Mr. Rudolf Bernet of the Husserl-Archiv (Louvain) for their help in reading the original manuscripts and for putting their excellent knowledge of the Husserl "Nachlass" preserved at the Archives at our disposal. We especially wish to thank Professor Herbert Spiegelberg whose careful and critical reading of our manuscript at an earlier stage resulted in numerous suggestions for its improvement; and, last but not least, our wives, Jane and Pam, for their help in preparing the typescripts. TABLE OF CONTENTS Translator's Introductions XI I. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION XI II. THEMATIC INTRODUCTION XX III."

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The Author’s Abstracts 1900/01.- Author’s Abstract to Volume One in Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie, Vol. 24 (1900), pp. 511–12.- Author’s Abstract to Volume Two in Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie und Soziologie, Vol. 25 (1901), pp. 260–63.- A Draft of a “Preface” to the Logical Investigations, 1913.- I. Eugen Fink’s Editorial Remarks.- II. Husserl’s Text.- Section 1. The necessity of a preparatory introduction into the meaning of the work. — The Logical Investigations and the philosophical public.- Section 2. The sense of the “Prolegomena”: the separation of the logical and psychological motifs within the unity of a single problem; (critical discussion on Natorp).- Section 3. The Demand for an intuitive method of philosophy in the return to intuitive experience (Anschauung).- Section 4. Repudiation of the charge of so-called “Platonism”; ideas as objects.- Section 5. The concept of pure logic as mathesis universalis (the unity of the “analytic” doctrine of forms for that which can be an object on the one hand with the categories of meaning on the other). The “positivity” of logic and the philosophical problem of its phenomenological elucidation. — Positive science in general and phenomenology.- Section 6. The Logical Investigations as a breakthrough work. — The antecedent history of its problematic: the beginning with the questions about the psychological origin of basic mathematical concepts; the study of Lotze and Bolzano. — The thematic orientation of the mathematician; its naive justification and the problem of a phenomenological turn.- Section 7. Critical discussion of Meinong. — Demarcations in the region of the a priori: The distinction between 1) the formal and material a priori, and 2) the “phenomenological” and “ontological” a priori.- Section 8. Critical Differentiation from Lotze.- Section 9. Critical differentiation from Bolzano.- Section 10. Repudiation of the slogan: “Phenomenology as the analysis of the meanings of words.- Section 11. A misunderstanding of the author’s in the Logical Investigations. The misleading characterization of phenomenology as descriptive psychology.- Section 12. The charge of “logicism”; critical discussion on Wilhelm Wundt.