Phenomenology as first philosophy

a prehistory

Sebastian Luft

Marquette University

pp. 107-133

in: Carlo Ierna, Hanne Jacobs, Filip Mattens (eds), Philosophy, phenomenology, sciences, Berlin, Springer, 2010

Abstract

When Husserl explicitly construed his phenomenology as first philosophy, he knew that he was placing himself into a long tradition in Western philosophy.¹ One can witness the emergence of this project of phenomenology as first philosophy already in the first decade of the twentieth century, in the wake of the establishing phenomenology as mathesis universalis.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund