Table Of ContentEDMUND HUSSERL
Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers
Edited by Rudolf Bernet,
Donn Welton and Gina Zavota
Volume V
Horizons: Life-world, Ethics, History, and Metaphysics
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CONTENTS
VOLUME V HORIZONS: LIFE-WORLD, ETHICS,
HISTORY, AND METAPHYSICS
Acknowledgements vii
PART 10
The Concept of the Life-world 1
70 The lifeworld revisited: Husserl and some recent interpreters 3
DAVID CARR
71 Husserl’s concept of the world 19
RUDOLF BERNET
72 Heimwelt, Fremdwelt, die eine Welt 39
KLAUS HELD
PART 11
Ethics and Community 59
73 Husserl’s phenomenology of willing 61
ULLRICH MELLE
74 Moral objectivity: Husserl’s sentiments of the understanding 80
JOHN J. DRUMMOND
75 Phenomenology, value theory, and nihilism 99
STEVEN CROWELL
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CONTENTS
76 Edmund Husserl: from reason to love 119
ULLRICH MELLE
Tl Freedom, responsibility, and self-awareness in Husserl 140
TOM NENON
PART 12
Culture and the Problem of History 163
78 Die Phänomenologie als transzendentale Theorie der
Geschichte 165
LUDWIG LANDGREBE
79 Husserl’s Crisis and the problem of history 184
DAVID CARR
80 “Faktum Geschichte” und die Grenzen phänomenologischer
Geschichtsphilosophie 204
KARL-HEINZ LEMBECK
PART 13
Rationality and Metaphysics 217
81 Husserl’s concept of the “absolute” 219
RUDOLF BOEHM
82 Entelechy in transcendental phenomenology: a sketch of the
foundations of Husserlian metaphysics 246
JAMES G. HART
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Volume V
The publishers would like to thank the following for permission to reprint
their material:
Kluwer Academic Publishers for permission to reprint David Carr, “The
lifeworld revisited: Husserl and some recent interpreters”, in William R.
McKenna and J. N. Mohanty (eds), Husserl’s Phenomenology: A
Textbook, Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Research in Phenom
enology and University Press of America, 1989, pp. 291-308.
State University of New York Press for permission to reprint Rudolf
Bernet, “Husserl’s Concept of the World”, in Arleen B. Dallery, Charles
E. Scott and P. Holley Roberts (eds), Crises in Continental Philosophy,
Albany: The State University of New York Press, 1990, pp. 3-21. © 1990
State University of New York. All rights reserved.
Karl Alber Verlag for permission to reprint Klaus Held, “Heimwelt,
Fremdwelt, die eine Welt”, in Ernst Wolfgang Orth (ed.), Perspektiven
und. Probleme der Husserlschen Phänomenologie, Phänomenologische
Forschungen 24 (1991): 305-337.
Kluwer Academic Publishers for permission to reprint Ullrich Melle,
“Husserl’s phenomenology of willing”, in James G. Hart and Lester
Embree (eds), Phenomenology of Values and Valuing, Dordrecht: Kluwer,
1997, pp. 169-192. With kind permission of Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Kluwer Academic Publishers for permission to reprint John J. Drum
mond, “Moral objectivity: Husserl’s sentiments of the understanding”,
Husserl Studies 12 (1995): 165-183. With kind permission of Kluwer Acad
emic Publishers.
Kluwer Academic Publishers for permission to reprint Steven Crowell,
“Phenomenology, value theory, and nihilism” (Kluwer, forthcoming).
Kluwer Academic Publishers for permission to reprint Ullrich Melle,
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
“Edmund Husserl: from reason to love”, in John J. Drummond and Lester
Embree (eds), Phenomenological Approaches to Moral Philosophy, Dor
drecht: Kluwer, 2002, pp. 229-248.
Noesis Press Ltd for permission to reprint Tom Nenon, “Freedom,
responsibility, and self-awareness in Husserl”, in Burt Hopkins and Steven
Crowell (eds), The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomeno
logical Philosophy 2 (2002): 1-21.
Karl Alber Verlag for permission to reprint Ludwig Landgrebe, “Die
Phänomenologie als transzendentale Theorie der Geschichte”, in Ernst
Wolfgang Orth (ed.), Phänomenologie und Praxis, Phänomenologische
Forschungen 3 (1976): 17—47.
Southwestern Journal of Philosophy for permission to reprint David Carr,
“Husserl’s Crisis and the Problem of History”, Southwestern Journal of
Philosophy 5(3) (1974): 127-148.
Kluwer Academic Publishers for permission to reprint Karl-Heinz
Lembeck, “‘Faktum Geschichte’ und die Grenzen phänomenologischer
Geschichtsphilosophie”, Husserl Studies 4 (1987): 209-224. With kind per
mission of Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Noesis Press Ltd for permission to reprint Rudolf Boehm, “Husserl’s
concept of the ‘absolute’”, trans. R. O. Elveton, in R. O. Elveton (ed.),
The Phenomenology of Husserl: Selected Critical Readings, Chicago:
Quadrangle Books, 1970, pp. 174-203.
Philosophy Documentation Center for permission to reprint James G.
Hart, “Entelechy in transcendental phenomenology: a sketch of the
foundations of Husserlian metaphysics”, American Catholic Philosophical
Quarterly 66(2) (1992): 189-212.
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Part 10
THE CONCEPT OF THE LIFE
WORLD
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THE LIFEWORLD REVISITED
Husserl and some recent interpreters
David Carr
Source: David Carr ‘The lifeworld revisited: Husserl and some recent interpreters’ in David
Carr, Interpreting Husserl: Critical and Comparative Studies, Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff
Publishers, 1987, pp. 227-44.
The concept of the lifeworld was of central importance to the revived
interest in Husserl’s thought during the 1950’s and 1960’s. In Europe this
revival was influenced jointly by the French existentialists and by the post
war publication of Husserl’s collected works. Maurice Merleau-Ponty had
referred at several points in his 1945 Phenomenology of Perception to the
unpublished portions of Husserl’s last work, The Crisis of European Sci
ences, in which the Lebenswelt figures prominentley, and those portions
were then published in 1954 in vol. VI of Husserliana. As existential
phenomenology attracted interest in North America in the 1960’s,
Husserl’s late work was seen as part of a trend that included Merleau’s
concept of the monde vécu and Heidegger’s emphasis in Being and Time
on being-in-the-world.
Inevitably the philosophical landscape has changed since then, and the
fifeworld has been somewhat lost from view. This shift is not without its
historical ironies. Continental European philosophy was contrasted in the
post-war period with a strong Anglo-American preoccupation with lan
guage. But German and French philosophy has itself taken up language
since then, either literally or as a powerful metaphor for human thought
and experience. Hermeneutics sees human reality as a text to be inter
preted, and structuralism and post-structuralism analyse everything in
terms of realms of discourse closed in upon themselves. Meanwhile Anglo-
American philosophers have for some time felt the constraints imposed by
taking language as the paradigm for thought, and in some quarters
Husserl’s concept of intentionality is being proposed as a mentalistic solu
tion to the problem of linguistic meaning.
In my view something important has been lost in these developments,
something valuable that Husserl contributed precisely in his concept of the
lifeworld. And by overlooking this contribution some of those who now
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