Contents

Preface

Introduction

Procedure and ObjectImmanent Critique

Mediating the FirstMathematicizaton

Concept of MethodPromoting the Subject

Persistence as TruthThe Elementary

The Regressive

Philosophy of Origins and Epistemology

System and DebitOpposing Forces in Epistemology

The Drive for SystemDoctrine of Antinomies

NominalismMotivation and Tendency of Ontology

Illusory Concretization and Formalism

New and Old

1 Critique of Logical Absolutism

Philosophy, Metaphysics and Science

Contradiction in Scientificization

Concept of IntuitionHusserl′s Scientism

Dialectic in Spite of ItselfA Head-Start for Science

′Realism′ in LogicThe Logical In-Itself

Presupposition of Logical Absolutism

Essence and Development (Entfaltung)

Calculators, Logic and Mechanics

Reification of LogicThe Logical ′Object′

Autosemantic and Synsemantic Expressions

Logical Laws and Laws of Thought

Aporia of Logical Absolutism

Relating Genesis and ValidityGenesis and Psychology

Thinking and Psychologism

The Law of Non-ContradictionThe Law of Identity

ContingencyAbandoning the Empirical

Phenomenological and Eidetic Motifs

2 Species and Intention

Propositions in Themselves and Essences

Lived Experience (Erlebnis) and ′Sense′

Critique of Singular ′Senses′

Origin of Essential Insight (Wesensschau)

′Ideational Abstraction′Abstraction and τόδε τί

The Primacy of Meaning Analysis (Bedeutungsanalyse)

The Function of the NoemaNoema and εΐδος

Relation Between the Two ReductionsNoema as Hybrid

Essence and ′Factual States of Consciousness′

Antinomy of Subjectivism and Eidetics

′Eidetic Variations′Essence as Fiction

3 Epistemological Concepts in Dialectic

Phenomenology as Epistemology

Positivism and PlatonismHusserl′s Concept of

Givenness′Foundation′ (Fundierung)

Ontologization of the Factical

Thing as Model of the Given

Givenness Mediated in ItselfThe Subject of Givenness

Paradoxia of Pure Intuition

Matter as FulfilmentSensation and Perception

Antinomy of the Doctrine of Perception

Sensation and Materialism

Epistemology as Elementary Analysis′Gestalt′

Intentionality and ConstitutionEnter Noesis and Noema

The Forgotten SynthesisCritique of Correlation Theory

Pure Identity and Noematic Core

The Primacy of Objectifying Acts

Thing as Clue (Leitfaden)Antinomy of the Noema

Critique Dismissed

Antagonism to System

Husserl′s Transition to Transcendental Idealism

Fragility of the System

4 Essence and Pure Ego

Husserl and his SuccessorsPhenomenology

Attempts to Break OutSelf-Revocation

Character of Immanence and the Fetishism of the Concept

′Attitude′ (Einstellung)Fantasy and Body

Categorial IntuitionThe Paradoxical Apex

The Provenance of Logical Absolutism

Fulfilment of Unsensed Moments

′Becoming Aware′ (Gewahrwerdung)

Motivation of Objectivism

Withering Away of Argument

Phenomenology as Philosophy of Reflection

The System in Ruins

Advanced and Restorative Elements

Natural History Museum AbstractIdeal of Security

Infinitization of the TemporalOrigin of the εἶδος Ego

Consciousness, Pure Essence, Time

Transcendental Ego and FacticityEquivocation of ′I′

SolipsismThe Aporia of Transcendental Experience

The End of Idealism

Translator′s Note

Bibliographical Note

German–English Lexicon

Index