Title: The Basic Problems of Phenomenology
Subtitle: From the Lectures, Winter Semester, 1910-1911 (Edmund Husserl Collected Works)
First published: March 21, 2006
Description: I. Historicalplaceandcontentofthistext Iso Kern, in the Editor’s Introduction of Husserliana Vol. XIII (pp. XXXIII–XL), shows us how important for Husserl were the lectures, of?cially titled, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology (1910–1911),alongwiththe1910PreparatoryNotes(givenhereas AppendixI). Kerndocumentshisclaimthat,apartfromvariousr- erencesinHusserl’spublishedworks,inhis Nachlass“heprobably referstonootherlecturesooftenasthisone. ”Hereferstoitbyvarious waysbesidesitsof?cialtitleas“LectureonIntersubjectivity,”“L- tureonEmpathyandExpandedReduction,”“OnthePhenomenol- ical Reduction and Transcendental Theory of Empathy,” or simply “Empathy. ”Althoughtheformulationsofthesethemeswereofde- siveimportanceforlaunchingthedirectionofHusserl’sre?ections, they are not treated in these lectures with the amplitude they ev- tuallyreceived.

Kernreportsthatwhatisheretranslated(Number6 inHusserlianaXIII,alongwithrelatedappendices)doesnotgivein itsentiretythetwo-hourperweeklecturesheldduringthesemester, but only the ?rst part. After Christmas, Husserl began intensively preparingforPhilosophyasaRigorousSciencethatwaspublishedin Logosin1911. Thesecondpartofthecourse,thecontentsofwhich wedonotknow,tooktheformofclassdiscussions. ThisTranslators’ PrefacewillsupplementKern’sexcellentintroductoryremarks. Byreasonofitsscopeandsize,theselecturesareoneofthebest introductions to Husserl’s phenomenology. We must await the p- lication of all the Nachlass to decide which one of the many “- troductions”isthebestforbeginners. Husserlhimselfusedpartsof theselecturesforcoursesheentitledIntroductiontoPhenomenology.

XIII XIV TRANSLATORS’PREFACE Here, in a brief space, the classical touchstones of Husserl’s p- losophy are presented,

some for the very ?rst time: the eidetic and phenomenologicalanalysisandhoweideticanalysisisnotyetp- nomenological analysis; the natural attitude and the phenome- logicalattitude;thephenomenologicalreduction;theintersubjective reduction; the distinction between nature or being in itself and - ture or being displayed; empty and ?lled intentions; the interplay ofpresenceandabsence;theinterplayoftranscendenceandim- nence; manifestation through intentionality and the non-intentional pre-re?exive manifestation; the various senses of “I” depending on the position of the phenomenological observer; the “halo” or ho- zon of experience; world as the full concrete positivity of ex- rience; the incommensurability of the properties of mind and d- play with the properties of displayed physical objects; body-thing versuslivedbody;knowledgeofothermindsthroughempathy;the uniqueintentionalityofempathy;thephenomenologyofcommuni- tiveacts;temporalityandtime-consciousness;theconsciousnessof

thetime-consciousnessofothers;universalmonadology;thenature oftranscendental-phenomenologicalphilosophyvis-a-vis ` scienceand otherformsofphilosophy,etc.
Subjects: Pha nomenologie, Phänomenologie, Phenomenology, Philosophy (General), Genetic epistemology, Ontology, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy