Edmund Husserl

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.

What follows is a translation of Phantasie, Bildbewusstsein, 1 Erinnerung (1898–1925), Volume XXIII in the Husserliana series, the critical edition of the works of Edmund Husserl. Husserliana XXIII brings together a broad range of posthumous texts on p- ception, phantasy, image consciousness, memory, time, and a variety of related topics. They were written during a period of enormous productivity and pivotal development in Husserl’s philosophical life, reaching from the years immediately preceding the publication of the Logical Investigations (1900–1901) almost to the time of his reti- ment in 1928. As Eduard Marbach, the editor of Husserliana XXIII points out, Husserl formulated grand plans early in the last century for the s- tematic development and presentation of his thought, particularly of the phenomenology of reason. Part of this project would consist of 2 a “ ‘very comprehensive work on perception, phantasy, and time. ’ ” Husserl never in fact realized his idea of exploring these topics c- lectively in a single work, but he did offer courses and write sketches touching on all of them. A selection of these materials, mainly from the ?rst decade of the last century and devoted to time consciousness, 3 was published in 1928 in Husserl’s Jahrbuch with a brief foreword 1 Edmund Husserl, Phantasie, Bildbewusstsein, Erinnerung. Zur Phanomenolo ¨ gie der anschaulichen Vergegenwartigung ¨ en. Texte aus dem Nachlass (1898–1925). Husserliana XXIII, hrsg. Eduard Marbach (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1980). Page references to Husserliana XIII will be included in parentheses within the text.