The transcendental reduction and language

pp. 35-57

in: Suzanne Cunningham, Language and the phenomenological reductions of Edmund Husserl, Berlin, Springer, 1976

Abstract

Let us turn now to Husserl's second, or "transcendental," reduction, and begin by clarifying the meaning of the transcendental ego which the reduction uncovers. We shall then be in a better position to turn to the key function of that ego, meaning-constitution, and to examine the constitution both of meaningful objects and of language. It will become apparent, I think, that a more careful account of the genetic constitution of language leads one directly to a context of intersubjectivity.