Abstract

The idea of the book is brilliant in its simplicity: to superimpose Husserl's several introductions to phenomenology and so to construct a composite image of what Husserl assumed about his enterprise--though he may not have articulated it adequately in any one of his introductions. The author should not be faulted that, like others before him, he actually ends up following the introduction from the Ideen cycle, with references to those in Cartesian Meditations and Crisis. The introduction in Ideen I is clearly central and most systematic. If he is to be faulted at all, it would be because, like others before him, he focuses on the introduction in the Ideen cycle but largely ignores the crucial second volume, Phänomenologische Studien zur Konstitution, though more of that anon.