Edmund Husserl : critical assessments of leading philosophers. Volume 5 Horizons : life-world, ethnics, history, and metaphysics PDF
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EDMUND HUSSERL Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers Edited by Rudolf Bernet, Donn Welton and Gina Zavota Volume V Horizons: Life-world, Ethics, History, and Metaphysics Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2005 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon 0X14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group Editorial matter and selection © 2005 Rudolf Bernet, Donn Welton and Gina Zavota; individual owners retain copyright in their own material Typeset in Times by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-415-28956-4 (Set) ISBN 0-415-34536-7 (Volume V) Publisher’s Note References within each chapter are as they appeared in the original complete work 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 V 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 vi 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, vii 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. Disclaimer The publishers have made every effort to contact authors/copyright holders of works reprinted in Edmund Husserl: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers. This has not been possible in every case, however, and we would welcome correspondence from those individuals/companies whom we have been unable to trace. viii Part 10 THE CONCEPT OF THE LIFE WORLD 70 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 3
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