Contents
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Preface
1: Phenomenology as Transcendental Philosophy
The Phenomenology of the Logical Investigations
The Radicalization of Reflection
Transcendental Phenomenology
Phenomenology and Idealism
Philosophy as Rigorous Science
2: Philosophy and History in the Crisis
The New Departure of the Crisis
The Role of Historical Reflection
Historical Reflection and Philosophical Method
The Temporal Dimension
The Implications of Genetic Analysis
4: Intersubjectivity
The Problem of the Fifth Meditation
Intersubjective Phenomenology
Intersubjectivity and Genetic Theory
5: Historical Reduction and the Critique of the Philosophical Tradition
The Idea of Historical Reduction
The Critique of the Tradition: Objectivism
The Critique of the Tradition: Transcendental Subjectivism
6: Hussel’s New Concept of the World: The Life-World
The Concept of the Life-World
The Earlier Concept of World: the Ideas
After the Ideas
The Cartesian Meditations
7: Life-World, Historical Reduction, and the Structure of the Crisis
The Old and the New Conceptions of World
Is the Life-World Compatible with Transcendental Phenomenology?
Is the Historical Reduction Compatible with Transcendental Phenomenology?
A Note on the Composition of the Crisis
A Tentative Conclusion
8: Ambiguities in the Concept of the Life-World
The Cultural and the Perceptual Worlds
Do Cultural and Perceptual Worlds Have Anything in Common?
A Possible Solution to the Problem
9: Experience and Judgment and the Problem of Historicism
A Major Problem Raised by Experience and Judgment
The Rejection of Reflection
Summary
10: Historical Relativity and Transcendental Philosophy
From Historical Reduction to Historicism
Historicism and Skepticism
The Problems of "Partial Historicisn"
11: The Project of Transcendental Philosophy
Reflection and Historical Reduction
Philosophy and the Tradition
Index