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The following essay, which accompanied the publication of the syllabus for the four lectures on “Phenomenological Method and Phenomenological Philosophy” which Edmund Husserl delivered at the University of London in June 1922,2 is chiefly an attempt to salvage an episode in the history of phenomenology which is rapidly becoming inaccessible. Some of its most important parts are in all probability past recovery. The special reason for this attempt is the present revival of interest in phenomenology in England. This remarkable, if not amazing, comeback makes it doubly important to learn some of the facts about its largely-forgotten past record.
From the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, vol. 1, No. 1, January 1970, pp. 3–15.
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Notes
Published in the same issue of this Journal, pp. 16–23.
Letter by J. T. Richnell, B.A., F.L. A., Goldsmith Librarian of the University of London Library of May 30, 1968.
C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, The Meaning of Meaning (Tenth Edition), p. 269.
Hibbert Journal XXII (1922),182; see below note 14.
Edmund Husserl, Briefe an Roman Ingarden. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1968, p. 24.
See my The Phenomenological Movement. The Hague, Nijhoff, 1969, p. 624.
See Helen Bosanquet, Bernard Bosanquet. Oxford 1924, p. 145.
Recent evidence from the Bertrand Russell Archives at McMaster University in the form of his letters to his brother Frank of June 3, 10 and July 1, 1918 show that he had promised G. F. Stout a review of the Logische Untersuchungen for Mind, which never materialized; this explains Mind’s apparent neglect of this work.
Letter of August 26, 1968, from the Librarian, Miss J. L. Randall-Cutler.
Personal letter of April 5, 1968.
For a late confirmation of this possibility see the Postscript.
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society for 1921–22, p. 228.
Letter of December 14, 1922: “In England fand ich wärmste Aufnahme, nachträglich hat mich die Arist. Soc. z. Corresp. Mitglied gemacht.” (In England I found a very warm reception; subsequently the Aristotelian Society has made me a corresponding member). Edmund Husserl, Briefe an Roman Ingarden, p. 25.
“ Last June Professor Edmund Husserl delivered, on the invitation of the University of London, at University College a remarkable series of lectures on ‘Phänomenologische Methode and Phänomenologische Philosophie’; and these lectures will, it is hoped, be published in English at no distant date.” (XXII, 182).
call it “ill-fated” in view of the fact that the fourth and last version of Husserl’s German draft, now published in Husserliana IX (pp. 277–301) was not only telescoped by the translator but also paraphrased to such an extent that the original is hardly recognizable and at times distorted.
See, e.g., W. G. DeBurgh, “George Dawes Hicks” in Proceedings of the British Academy XVII (1941), p. 415.
“It is far from being an easy task, for Husserl and his followers have introduced a whole galaxy of new technical terms, for many of which it is well-nigh hopeless to look for English equivalents.” (vol. 27, p. 166).
See the obituary by John Wild in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research II (1942), 266–7.
Husserliana VII, p. xxii. See also Briefe an Roman Ingarden,p. 26.
See Dorion Cairns, Conversations with Husserl and Fink, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1976, p. 27.
Vom Gesichtspunkt der Phänomenologie (The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1969), p. 26.
See my “Perspektivenwandel” in Edmund Husserl 1859–1959,p. 58.
About Husserl’s strong sympathy for and interest in English and American philosophy, see also the diary note by Ralph Barton Perry quoted in Husserl-Chronik, p. 363.
Now available in the translation by Richard Palmer in JBSP 2 (1971), 77–90.
Collected Papers I (The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1962), p. 119.
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Spiegelberg, H. (1981). Husserl in England: Facts and Lessons. In: The Context of the Phenomenological Movement. Phaenomenologica, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3270-3_10
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