Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl

Ludwig Landgrebe, Edmund Husserl's close associate and collaborator, knows Husserl's work from the inside. His writings on Husserl are both lucid explications of Husserl's thought and original contributions to phenomenology in their own right. In this volume of essays, Landgrebe traces the development of two concepts central to Husserl's philosophy: world and consciousness. In the first half of the book, Landgrebe shows how elements of Husserl's phenemenology of the lived body, perception, meaning, and temporality are incompatible with the Cartesian framework of Ideas I, and he demonstrates how these tensions led to Husserl's subsquent departure from Cartesianism. In the second half, Landgrebe argues that Husserl's integration of history and the life-world in his later writings represents a major advance over his initial views on the nature of reality. Carefully edited by Donn Welton and sensitively translated by Welton and others, this volume brings together the best of Landgrebe's essays on Husserl- essays that have played a significant role in the development of the Cologne school. Three of the six pieces have never appeared before in English; one of the remaining three was substantially revised for publication here. The Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl will be welcomed by philosophers and students alike as an insightful introduction to Husserl and an extension of Husserlian phenomenology.