Alterity and Facticity

Husserl's phenomenology has often been criticized for its Cartesian, fundamentalistic, idealistic and solipsistic nature. Today, this widespread interpretation must be regarded as being outdated, since it gives but a very partial and limited picture of Husserl's thinking. The continuing publication of Husserl's research manuscripts has disclosed analyses which have made it necessary to revise and modify a number of standard readings.
This anthology documents the recent development in Husserl research. It contains contributions from a number of young phenomenologists, who have all defended their dissertation on Husserl in the nineties, and it presents a new type of interpretation which emphasizes the dimensions of facticity, passivity, alterity and ethics in Husserl's thinking.

1. Transcendental Aesthetic and the Problem of Transcendentality. - 2. Imagination and Passivity. Husserl and Kant: A Cross-relationship. - 3. Attitude - Facticity - Philosophy. - 4. Rationalism, Idealism, Nationalism. - 5. Edmund Husserl s Phenomenology of Mood. - 6. Husserl s Phenomenology of Will in his Reflections on Ethics. - 7. Conflicting Apprehensions and the Question of Sensations. - 8. Spirit and Generativity: The Role and Contribution of the Phenomenologist in Hegel and Husserl. - 9. Self-awareness and Affection. - Contributing authors. - Husserliana List. - Index of Names.