This is a translation of Edmund HusserI's lecture course from the Summer semester 1907 at the University of Gottingen. The German original was pub lished posthumously in 1973 as Volume XVI of Husserliana, Husserl's opera omnia. The translation is complete, including both the main text and the supplementary texts (as Husserliana volumes are usually organized), except for the critical apparatus which provides variant readings. The announced title of the lecture course was "Main parts of the phenome nology and critique of (...) reason." The course began with five, relatively inde pendent, introductory lectures. These were published on their own in 1947, bearing the title The idea ojphenomenology.l The "Five Lectures" comprise a general orientation by proposing the method to be employed in the subsequent working out of the actual problems (viz., the method of "phenomenological reduction") and by clarifying, at least provisionally, some technical terms that will be used in the labor the subsequent lectures will carry out. The present volume, then, presents that labor, i.e., the method in action and the results attained. As such, this text dispels the abstract impression which could not help but cling to the first five lectures taken in isolation. Accord ingly, we are here given genuine "introductory lectures," i.e., an introduction to phenomenology in the genuine phenomenological sense of engaging in the work of phenomenology, going to the "matters at issue themselves," rather than remaining aloof from them in abstract considerations of standpoint and approach. (shrink)

This is a book that no one but Weyl could have written--and, indeed, no one has written anything quite like it since.

In this book, which remained unfinished at his death, Husserl attempts to forge a union between phenomenology and existentialism.

Der Begriff der Zahl ist ein vielfacher. Darauf weist uns schon die Mehrheit verschiedener Zahlworter hin, die in der Sprache des gewohnlichen Lebens auftreten und von den Grammatikern unter 5 folgenden Titeln aufgefiihrt zu werden pflegen: die Anzahlen oder Grundzahlen (numeralia cardinalia), die Ordnungszahlen (n. ordinalia), die Gattungszahlen (n. specialia), die Wiederho­ lungszahlen (n. iterativa), die Vervielfaltigungszahlen (n. multi­ plicativa) und die Bruchzahlen (n. partitiva). DaB die Anzahlen 10 als die ersten in dieser Reihe genannt werden, beruht ebenso wie die (...) charakteristischen N amen, die sie sonst tragen - Grund- oder Kardinalzahlen -, nicht auf bloBer Konvention. Sie nehmen sprachlich eine bevorzugte SteHung dadurch ein, daB die samt­ lichen iibrigen Zahlworter nur durch geringe Modifikationen aus 15 den Anzahlwortern hervorgehen (z. B. zwei, zweiter, zweierlei, zweifach, zweimal, zweitel). Die letzteren sind also wahrhafte Grundzahlworter. Die Sprache leitet uns hiermit auf den Gedan­ ken hin, es mochten auch die korrespondierenden Beg r iff e samtlich in einem analogen Abhangigkeitsverhaltnisse stehen 20 zu denen der Anzahlen und gewisse inhaltsreichere Gedanken vor­ steHen, in welchen die Anzahlen bloBe Bestandteile bilden. Die einfachste Uberlegung scheint dies zu bestatigen. So handelt es sich bei den Gattungszahlen (einerlei, zweierlei usw. ) um eine Anzahl von Verschiedenheiten innerhalb einer Gattung; bei den Wieder- 25 holungszahlen (einmal, zweimal usw. ) um die Anzahl einer Wiederholung. Bei den Vervielfaltigungs- und Bruchzahlen dient die Anzahl dazu, das Verhaltnis eines in gleiche Teile geteilten Ganzen zu einem Teile bzw. (shrink)

This book makes available to the English reader nearly all of the shorter philosophical works, published or unpublished, that Husserl produced on the way to the phenomenological breakthrough recorded in his Logical Investigations of 1900-1901. Here one sees Husserl's method emerging step by step, and such crucial substantive conclusions as that concerning the nature of Ideal entities and the status the intentional `relation' and its `objects'. Husserl's literary encounters with many of the leading thinkers of his day illuminates both the (...) context and the content of his thought. Many of the groundbreaking analyses provided in these texts were never again to be given the thorough expositions found in these early writings. Early Writings in the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics is essential reading for students of Husserl and all those who enquire into the nature of mathematical and logical knowledge. (shrink)