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It is in the text known as “The Origin of Geometry,” published as Appendix VI to The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology,1 that the problem of history comes to the fore in Edmund Husserl’s writings. Husserl there states: “As will become evident here, at first in connection with one example, our investigations are historical in an unaccustomed sense.”2 This claim raises several questions. First: what is the “unaccustomed sense” in which history here presents itself? Second, and more fundamentally: what are the implications for Husserl’s philosophy of this admission that it must confront the problem of history?
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Husserl, “The Origin of Geometry,” tr. David Carr, in Edmund Husserl’s ‘Origin of Geometry’: An Introduction (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1989) 155–180
Gaston Bachelard, “L’actualité de l’histoire des sciences,” in L’engagement rationaliste (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1972) 137–152
Husserl, “Geschichtlicher Überblick über die Philosophie der Mathematik,” in Husserliana XXI: Studien zur Arithmetik und Geometrie, ed. Ingeborg Strohmeyer (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1983) 229.
Husserl, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and a Phenomenological Philosophy, vol. I, tr. Fred Kersten (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998) 18
Cited in Elmar Holenstein, “Editor’s Introduction” to Husserliana XVIII, vol. 1 of Logische Untersuchungen (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1975) xlvi.
Husserl, Logical Investigations, tr. J. N. Findlay, vol. 2 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970) 316
Husserl, The Idea of Phenomenology, tr. Lee Hardy (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999) 50
Husserl, Husserliana II: Die Idee der Phänomenologie (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1950) 68–69.
Husserl, Experience and Judgment, tr. James S. Churchill and Karl Ameriks (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973) 350
Husserl, Erfahrung und Urteil (Hamburg: Claasen & Goverts, 1948), 423
On this turn in Husserl’s philosophy, see Ludwig Landgrebe, Phänomenologie und Geschichte (Gütersloh: Mohn, 1968) I.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible, 5 [Le visible et l’invisible (Paris: Gallimard, 1964) 1
Nécessaire... pour ainsi dire, par accident. Leibniz, “Discourse on Metaphysics,” in Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays, ed. and tr. Daniel Garber and Roger Ariew (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1991) 1–40
Leibniz, Discours de métaphysique, rev. ed., ed. Henri Lestienne (Paris: Vrin, 1975) 43.
Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, tr. A. V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979) 11
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Olesen, S.G. (2013). Husserl and the History of Reason. In: Transcendental History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137277787_1
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