Year: 1986
Type: article
Abstract: IHistory has not been very kind to Husserl's Logical Investigations.Matters might have been different if Bertrand Russell had actually read, and understood, the copy he had with hirn in prison in Brixton during the first World War, but by and large the work has had practically no effect on exact philosophy in general or on analytic philosophy in particular.Husserl hirnself is largely to blame for this state of affairs, since shortly after completing the work he sailed off into somewhat muddier, metaphysical waters.His later writings te nd to be unclear and to suffer from an excess of grandiose terminology, so that it is only sporadically that they continue or deepen the magisterial analyses and arguments of the Investigations of 1900/01.This state of affairs is reflected in the history of the editions and translations of the book.Findlay's readable but imperfect translation -in itself a considerable achievement -appeared seventy years after the work was first published, and the editors of Husserl's works in Louvain have reflected the prevailing philosophical atmosphere on the Continent in that, at least until recently, they have concentrated their energies on bringing out editions of Husserl's later writings.Now, however, some twenty volumes of collected works later, and over eighty years after the appearance of Husserl's one true masterpiece, a critical edition of the work is at last available in completed form.Ursula Panzer's edition of volume 11 of the work, which comes nine years after Elmar Holenstein's edition of the Prolegomena to Pure Logic, the overture with which the six Logical Investigations proper begin, contains the texts of both the first (A) edition of 1900/1901 and of the second (B) edition of 1913/1921.The two volumes of the Panzer edition contain also the annotations and supplements interleaved between the pages of Husserl's own copy of the Investigations, and in her introduction the editor usefully summarises the changes Husserl made in this additional material and also the differences between the first and second editions of the Investigations themselves.
Authors: Kevin Mulligan, Barry Smith
Language: German
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2884173448