Abstract

Beginning with the book of Robert Sokolowski about Husserl’s concept of constitution the Philosophy of Arithmetic have been revisited as an important document of Husserl’s constitution-theory. It is not only an unripe sketch but a work that even formulates one of the most progressive thoughts of Husserl’s later philosophy. In my analysis this statement will also be true, if we concentrate on the second part of Husserl’s book and on the text that was meant to build the opening section of the second volume of this early treatise of Husserl. These works are focused on a problem of the later Husserl, namely how everyday life is the base of using signs, symbols and idealized concepts and how this world also becomes transformed by these means: so the whole problem-complex of the interaction of intuitive and ideal-conceptual. If we take into account that Husserl wants to clarify the basis of symbolization as such in the PA, then it is not surprising that he handles these problems. But it is surprising that he comes very close to the results which were obtained in the late 20s and 30s. This will be clear if we are attent to some points in Husserl’s 1892/93 text about the concept of space. I will conclude that he abandoned these very progressive results, because he had realized, that his mood of analysis wasn’t sufficient to go in this direction already