The Later Husserl and the Idea of Phenomenology: Idealism-Realism, Historicity and Nature Papers and Debate of the International Phenomenological Conference Held at the University of Waterloo, Canada, April 9–14, 1969 PDF
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THE LATER HUSSERL AND THE IDEA OF PHENOMENOLOGY ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH VOLUME II Editor: ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA THE LATER HUSSERL AND THE IDEA OF PHENOMENOLOGY Idealism-Realism, Historicity and Nature PAPERS AND DEBATE OF THE INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENOLOGICAL CONFERENCE HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO, CANADA, APRIL 9-14, 1969 Edited by ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA I D.REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY DORDRECHT-HOLLAND Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 78-25369 ISBN-I3: 978-94-010-2884-4 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-010-2882-0 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-010-2882-0 All Rights Reserved Copyright © 1972 by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1972 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements VII INA UG URAL LECTURE ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA / Phenomenology Reflects upon Itself. II: The Ideal of the Universal Science: the Original Project of HusserI Reinterpreted with Reference to the Acquisitions of Phenomenology and the Progress of Contem- porary Science. 3 Address (Professor Klibansky on April 10, 1969) 18 PART I / THE LATER HUSSERL ROMAN INGAR DEN / What is New in HusserI's 'Crisis' 23 DALLAS LASKEY / Ingarden's Criticism of HusserI 48 FRED KERSTEN / On Understanding Idea and Essence in HusserI and Ingarden 55 DISCUSSION 64 JOSEPH J. KOCKELMANS / Phenomenologico-Psychological and Transcendental Reductions in HusserI's 'Crisis' 78 ANDRZEJ P6LTAWSKI / Constitutive Phenomenology and Inten- tional Objects 90 ALPHONSO LlNGIS / Hyletic Data 96 DISCUSSION 102 GERD BRAND / The Material Apriori and the Foundation for its Analysis in HusserI 128 H. L. V AN BREDA / The Actual State of the Work on HusserI's Inedita: Achievements and Projects 149 DISCUSSION 160 VI T ABLE OF CONTENTS PART II / PHENOMENOLOGY AND HERMENEUTICS H.G.GADAMER / The Science ofthe Life-World 173 K. KUYPERS / The Sciences of Man and the Theory of Husserl's Two Attitudes 186 T.KISIEL / Repetition in Gadamer's hermeneutics 196 GUIDO KUNG / Ingarden on Language and Ontology (A Compari- son with some Trends in Analytic Philosophy) 204 DISCUSSION 218 PART III/PHENOMENOLOGY AND NATURAL SCIENCE ELISABETH STROKER / Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology as Foundation of Natural Science 245 HENRY ELKIN / Towards a Developmental Phenomenology: Transcendental-Ego and Body-Ego 258 ERLING ENG / Body, Consciousness, and Violence 267 H.PIETERSMA / The Concept of Horizon 278 ULRICH CLAESGES / Intentionality and Transcendence: On the Constitution of Material Nature 283 DISCUSSION 292 COMPLEMENTARY ESSAYS I.N.MOHANTY / A Note on the Doctrine of Noetic-Noematic Correlation 317 TH.DE BOER / The Meaning of Husserl's Idealism in the Light of His Development 322 LOTHAR ELEY / Life-World Constitution of Propositional Logic and Elementary Predicate Logic 333 ANNEX Roman Ingarden's Letter to Edmund Husserl 357 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks are due to Mr. John Levonik, Instructor in Philosophy, for his expert and dedicated help in transcribing the tapes of the proceedings of the conference and to the Polish Academy of Science, Warszawa for their kind permission to publish the original letter of Roman Ingarden to Husserl. Thanks are also due to the Canada Council and to the University of Waterloo for a grant of funds in support of the conference. Most of all, however, this volume owes much to Prof. Lawrence Haworth, Chairman of the Philosophy Department of the University of Waterloo. Prof. Haworth took an active part in the organization, con duct and publication of the conference, which would not have succeeded without him. INAUGURAL LECTURE ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA PHENOMENOLOGY REFLECTS UPON ITSELF*, II The ideal of the universal science: the original project of Husserl reinterpreted with reference to the acquisitions ofp henomenology and the progress of contemporary science. Opening this conference I will ask a paradoxical question the answer to which determines the scope, the significance and the aim of our gathering: Is phenomenology still alive? It is quite clear that the great wave of philosophical inspiration which has radiated from phenomenology for the last three decades, exercising a sort of hegemony all over the European continent and beyond, and penetrating all the fields of human endeavour, has recently lost in intensity and vitality, while the new wave of interest in phenomenology which is now visible in the Western Hemisphere has not yet produced mature fruits. There is certainly a considerable number of scholars in philosophy as well as in other fields still working along phenomenological lines, but the question which I have put at the outset has a deeper meaning. What is at stake is not a restricted historical work in relation to the past of the phenomenological movement, or some limited pursuit to elucidate phenomenologically formulated problems, both of which are certainly important endeavours but would be either what Austin called 'polishing the tombs' or would remain restricted to individual pursuits, whereas phenomenology as inaugurated by Edmund Husserl and under taken by his immediate disciples has raised a vaster claim. As we well know, it was meant not only as a philosophia prima but also as a universal science. It is as a vast project of universal, fundamental inquiry to be carried on by a group of scholars, each in his own sector, that phenomenology has been conceived, has received the basic formulation of its task, field of research, and methods and has been taken up by philosophers and scholars. However, as it is well known, the very enthusiasm which made it radiate led to such a diversification of tasks, differentiation of ap proaches, ways of procedure, points of view and conclusions and termi nated in such disparate types of discourse, formulation of problems and Tymieniecka (ed.). Analecta Husserliana. Vol. II. 3-17. All Rights Reserved. Copyright <0 1972 by D. Reidel Publishing Company. Dordrecht-Holland. 4 ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA linguistic expression that we may ask ourselves whether this actual, concrete accomplishment of the HusserIian inspiration corresponds in any sense to his original project of phenomenology as a universal science which has been initiated and carried on at least at the time of the G6ttingen School. HusserI himself, having in his later development switched to a historical, that is genetico-transcendental foundation of phenomenology, seems to have despaired of his initial aspiration, which then appeared to him as an unfulfilled dream. Even if we could admit that there are criteria by which the phenomeno logical work being presently carried on still falls into this initial framework, we have to ask whether the present weakening of its vitality is not a sign that the task proposed by HusserI did not contain within itself the germ to fulfil its promise. The question then which I propose for your attention is: 'How does phenomenology stand today with respect to its original proposal of a fundamental, universal science?' At this basic level of consideration I challenge the contention that phenomenology has come to the end of its essential development. I will try, on the contrary, to establish that precisely now, when the two great lines of phenomenological inquiry outlined by Husserl, the eidetic and the transcendental, have been fully developed by himself and his followers, we enter into a new, self-reflective and self-critical phase of research. Comparable to that of the progress in science, which points out further perspectives into ever deeper dimensions of man's transaction with the universe, this new phase establishes phenomenology as an open field of continuous philosophical scholarship. It has still to be seen whether this work at the level of foundations can correspond to the aspiration and claim of a universal science; for can philosophy ever satisfy its postulates? Raising the question of the validity of HusserI's initial project regarding the task of phenomenology, we have to immediately point out that the contemporary development of scientific inquiry opens up a different and larger perspective of its requirements than the one at the end of the nineteenth century within which it was conceived. With science having evolved and changed its own criteria for validity, adequacy and truth, requirements demanded of philosophy to be at the same time its founda tion and a 'science' itself take on a transformed form.
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