Reviews for Husserl: An Analysis of His Phenomenology

The average rating for Husserl: An Analysis of His Phenomenology based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-10-22 00:00:00 Phillip Kelly Ricoeur is a great philosopher, even if I don't agree with him always. Apparently he wrote a lot of this while a prisoner of war, I believe. It's a decent and profound if somewhat scattered introduction to the later Husserl-- the transition from the Logical Investigations to transcendental Idealism doesn't get much talk here. Interesting as a document, along with Sartre's M-P's, and Levinas's early writings, of what some of the first French readers of Husserl thought was most interesting in his work. Of course, the answer is different for each: Sartre=intentionality and the pre-personal transcendental field; M-P=operative intentionality and the constitution of the lived body; Levinas=given and not given (otherness).

Review # 2 was written on 2008-08-31 00:00:00 Cassie Horton Ricoeur on Husserl has his advantages and disadvantages. Despite the elegant contemporary design on the cover, the book was originally published in 1950. Ricoeur seems to have been a bit of an earnest existentialist. Witness the cryptic last sentence of chapter 1: "Owing to this impressive mutation beginning from primarily logical preoccupations, phenomenology was prepared for the astonishing encounter with existential meditation coming from horizons quite foreign to Husserl- the tireless worker so temperate and so honest." In any event, much of his analysis of the relationship between Husserl and Kant, and explanation of the neo-Kantian critique of Husserl, is quite interesting.