Ingarden’s Husserl: A Critical Assessment of the 1915 Review of the Logical Investigations
Journal: Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology (Vol.9, No. 2)Publication Date: 2020-12-30
Authors : Thomas Byrne;
Page : 513-531
Keywords : Ingarden; Husserl; phenomenology; Logical Investigations; transcendental reduction; logical grammar; essence; descriptive psychology;
Abstract
This essay critically assesses Roman Ingarden's 1915 review of the second edition of Edmund Husserl's Logical Investigations. I elucidate and critique Ingarden's analysis of the differences between the 1901 first edition and the 1913 second edition. I specifically examine three tenets of Ingarden's interpretation. First, I demonstrate that Ingarden correctly denounces Husserl's claim that he only engages in an eidetic study of consciousness in 1913, as Husserl was already performing eidetic analyses in 1901. Second, I show that Ingarden is misguided, when he asserts that Husserl had fully transformed his philosophy into a transcendental idealism in the second edition. While Husserl does appear to adopt a transcendental phenomenology by asserting–in his programmatic claims–that the intentional content and object are now included in his domain of research, he does not alter his actual descriptions of the intentional relationship in any pertinent manner. Third, I show Ingarden correctly predicts many of the insights Husserl would arrive at about logic in his late philosophy. This analysis augments current readings of the evolution of Ingarden's philosophy, by more closely examining the development of his largely neglected early thought. I execute this critical assessment by drawing both from Husserl's later writings and from recent literature on the Investigations. By doing so, I hope to additionally demonstrate how research on the Investigations has matured in the one hundred years since the release of that text, while also presenting my own views concerning these difficult interpretative issues.
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