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The concept of the lifeworld was of central importance to the revived interest in Husserl’s thought during th 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 Maurice Merleau-Ponty had referred at several points in his 1945 Phenomenology of Perception to the unpublished portions of Husserl’s last work, The Crisis of European Sciences, in which the Lebenswelt figures prominentley, and those portions were then published in 1954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.
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Edmund Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, trans. D. Carr ( Evanston: Nortwestern University Press, 1970 ) p. 5.
Ibid. p. 17.
Milan Kundera, ‘The Novel and Europe’ New York Review of Books vol. 31 n° 12 (July 19, 1984) p. 15.
Harold Bloom, A Map of Misreading (New York: 1975) p. 39. Quoted by Richard Rorty in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature ( Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979 ), p. 168.
The Crisis, p. 106.
Ibid., p. 108.
Ibid., p. 11.
Ibid., p. 125.
Ibid., p. 127.
Ibid., p. 132.
Ibid., p. 134.
Ibid., p. 123.
Ibid., p. 142.
Ibid., p. 143.
Ibid.
Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy. First Book, trans. F. Kersten (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1983), Part two, Chapter one.
Ibid., p. 57.
See my Phenomenology and the Problem of History (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1974) Chapter 6.
Cartesian Meditations trans. D. Cairns (The Hague: Mart Nijhoff, 1960), p. 61.
The Crisis, p. 121.
Ibid., p. 122.
Ibid., p. 163.
Cartesian Meditations, p. 104.
Ibid., p. 93.
Ibid., p. 96.
The Crisis, p. 104.
Ibid., p. 130.
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method (New York: Continuum, 1975) pp. 345 ff.
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things ( New York: Random House, 1970 ) p. X XII.
The Crisis, p. 139.
See Husserl, Intentionality and Cognitive Science ed. H. Dreyfus (Cambridge, Mass: the MIT Press, 1982) especially the reprinted articles by D. Follesdal; and Husserl and Intentionality by Ronald Mclntyre and David Woodruff Smith (Boston: Reidel, 1982).
A similar strategy is followed by John Searle in his Intentionality (Cambridge University Press, 1983), though no debt to Husserl is acknowledged.
Searle (op. cit. p. 5) explicitly follows such a model.
The propositional view is held by Searle (op. cit. pp. 40 ff). The ‘singular meaning’ view is advanced by I. Miller in his Husserl, Perception and Temporal Awareness (Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1984 ) p. 55.
Dreyfus (op. cit.) Introduction pp. 2 f.
Husserl’s Identification of Meaning and Noema’in Dreyfus (op. cit.) p. 91.
The Crisis, p. 106.
E.g. Smith and McIntyre in Husserl and Intentionality (op. cit) p. XV.
The Crisis, p. 106.
Dreyfus (op. cit.) introduction, p. 23.
See Ideas I sections 30 and 31.
See Ernst Tugendhat Der Wahrheitsbegriff bei Husserl und Heidegger (2nd.ed. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1970) pp. 263 f.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenoly of Perception, trans. C. Smith ( New York: Humanities Press, 1962 ), p. X IV.
The Crisis, p. 51.
Ibid., p. 113.
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Carr, D. (1987). The Lifeworld Revisted: Husserl and Some Recent Interpreters. In: Interpreting Husserl. Phaenomenologica, vol 106. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3595-2_12
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