Husserl on Time-Analysis and Phenomenological Method

Abstract

This essay is an attempt to elucidate a dynamic-dialectical connection between Husserl’s time-analysis and the phenomenological method. In the first section, a close relationship between his early time-analyses and the first establishment of the method will be discussed and the paradoxical fact that the developed method cannot reach time-consciousness revealed by the early time-analyses will be clarified in section II. The subsequent processes of time-analyses and method will be briefly sketched in section III, and, finally in section IV, an open dynamic-dialectical way of thinking, which results from the gaps between the analysis and the method and which may dominate Husserl’s entire phenomenology as well as his time-analyses, will be attained.