Edmund Husserl, Méditations cartésiennes. Introduction à la phénoménologie [Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology]

Roy Elveton (Carleton College)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

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Philosophy (any)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1931

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Germany (Country of Origin)

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The

Cartesian Meditations

represents Husserl's relatively late effort to offer a concise, systematic presentation of his phenomenology. The German text, published in 1931, is based on a series of lectures Husserl delivered in 1929 at the Sorbonne in Paris. An authoritative critical edition of the German text has been published as

Husserliana

, Vol. 1 (1950). An English translation of the critical edition by Dorian Cairns is also available (1960).

Husserl's breakthrough to transcendental phenomenology occurred with the publication of the first volume of his Ideas (1913). His earlier Logical Investigations (1900) contained important intimations of his later phenomenology, but it was Ideas that defined the radically self-reflective return to the experiencing subject that was to form the

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Citation: Elveton, Roy. "Méditations cartésiennes. Introduction à la phénoménologie". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 August 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16919, accessed 21 November 2024.]