Husserl Edmund - Science and the life-world: essays on Husserls Crisis of European sciences

Husserliana , Briefwechsel IX , pp. 12829, tr. Engelen.

Compare this to Friedrich Steinles suggestion that it is far more common in the experimental sciences than Husserl seems to think.

On Foucault, see David Hyders contribution to this volume.

See Rheinbergers and Gaschs contributions to this volume.

See (Smith, 2006) and (2002b) on the unity of theory in Husserls Logical Investigations .

See (Smith, 2006) on Husserls theory of constitution and its background in the mathematical notion of a manifold and early mathematical logic, all relevant to Carnaps program.

See (Smith, 2006) and (1995) on this perspectivist reading of Husserls transcendental idealism; see (Smith, 2006) and (Smith and McIntyre, 1982) on the reconstruction of Husserls theory of intentionality in a realist, perspectivist scheme aligned with logical-semantic theory.

(Carnap, 1928, 5) following Friedmans translation in (Friedman, 1999, 134), except for putting constitution theory for constitutional theory.

(Carnap, 1928, 1516, 66). See also (Friedman, 1999, 130) as well as (1999, 176).

Simmel conceives of the Lebenswelt as aufgebaut (constructed) and also writes that das religise Leben schafft die Welt (religious life creates the world) (1912, 12, my emphases). Hugo von Hofmannsthal used the term even earlier, in his introduction to the Insel edition of Thousand and One Nights (1908), where he wrote: What would these poems be, what would they mean to us, if they did not emerge from a life-world. This life-world is incomparable, suffused with an infinite joyousness, ... that brings and binds everything together ... (Was wren diese Gedichte, was wren sie uns, wenn sie nicht aus einer Lebenswelt hervorstiegen. Unvergleichlich ist diese Lebenswelt, und durchsetzt von einer unendlichen Heiterkeit, ... die alles durcheinanderschlingt, alles zueinanderbringt ... ) (von Hofmannsthal 1951, 319, tr. Hyder).

See (Merleau-Ponty, 1945, 108n), where he refers to the second volume of the Ideas . In the Preface (1945, vii), Merleau-Ponty mentions that he also has studied the manuscript of Husserls Crisis . See (van Breda, 1962), as well as David Carrs English translation of the Crisis , p. xxx, notes 20 and 21, and (Sommer, 1990, 84n70).

See (Fllesdal, 1982, 55369).

Letter quoted in (Kern, 1964, 276n).

Husserl, Preface to the Gibson translation of Ideas I . Here from ( Husserliana V , 152.32153.5), my translation.

This example came up in conversations with David Wellbery.

The manuscript dates from 1917 but was copied during the first half of the 1920s, and it is possible that the word Lebenswelt came in then.

I have changed Kerstens translation slightly. See ( Husserliana III , 158.1319) for the original.

Again, the translation was slightly modified. See ( Husserliana III , 161.1518) for the original.

See, for example, ( Crisis 34e, 36), ( Husserliana VI , 134, 143, 462).

Carrs translation, slightly amended. See ( Husserliana VI , 143.2930) for the original.

These lectures will be printed shortly in (Hilbert 2009).

See my joint paper with T. Sauer (2006, 21333).

Husserl in slippers.

For references to these and other uses of the word style in this tradition, see the opening pages of my Style for Historians and Philosophers (Hacking, 1992, 120). My own theoretical use of the concept style of scientific reasoning is adapted from A. C. Crombie on styles of scientific thinking, much cited in my article. Geoffrey Lloyd, as quoted in the Primal Beginning section above, presumably wrote of styles of mathematical reasoning well aware of that discussion.

See his contribution to this volume.

(Wertheim, 2004).

The classic account is found in (Courant and Robbins, 1941) and many later editions.

I take the idea of a physicists tool kit from (Krieger, 1992). When I went to Google to check this reference, I typed in the words physicist tool kit. My first hit was The Official String Theory Web Site, which begins by answering the question What is theoretical physics? with an account of the calculus of variations, Euler and Lagrange.

Cf. note 2 above.

This Husserlian caveat is important in many respects: It suggests, in particular, that the very attempt to found Europe upon the Greek idea of philosophy as universal science, and in terms of a universal community, cannot take place in a merely historical fashion. To invoke the tradition in this context, without questioning it critically, is to go against what the very idea of philosophy requires.

The navet of Greek philosophy is that of its objectivism, but, as Husserl points out, it is of a different kind than that of the modern sciences. See (Ausdruck. Welt Sinn auflegen, Husserliana XXIX , pp. 16162).

Beilage XXII. Ontologie der Lebenswelt, Ontologie der Menschen, Husserliana VI , p. 483, my translation. See also, Beilage XV. Das europische Menschentum in der Krisis der europischen Kultur. I, Husserliana VI , p. 455.

For further distinction between imaginary ideality of the morphological type in the pre-geometrical life world and the ideality of pure geometry, see also (Derrida, 1978, 12226, 133).

Husserl makes the distinction when he writes: What arises first is the idea of continuation which is repeatable with unconditional generality, with its own self-evidence, as a freely thinkable and self-evident possible infinity, rather than the open endlessness [of imperfect but perfectible subjective representations of, for example, an individual thing]: rather than finite iteration, this is iteration within the sphere of the unconditional again-and-again, of what can be renewed with ideal freedom ( Crisis , Appendix V, p. 346).

For the connection between idealization, objectification, and method, see ( Crisis , Appendix V , p. 348).

In the appendix to the Crisis on The Origin of Geometry , it is made clear that the very formal-logical self-evidence of all the geometrical propositions that Galileo inherited relieved him from the need to reactivate the actual, that is, the truth-meaning, of geometry ( Origin of Geometry , pp. 36667).