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Despite an ever-growing scholarly interest in the work of Edmund Husserl and in the history of the phenomenological movement, much of the contemporaneous scholarly context surrounding Husserl´s work remains shrouded in darkness. While much has been written about the critiques of Husserl´s work associated with Heidegger, Levinas, and Sartre, comparatively little is known of the debates that Husserl was directly involved in. The present volume addresses this gap in scholarship by presenting a comprehensive selection of contemporaneous responses to Husserl´s work. Ranging in date from 1906 to 1917, these texts bookend Husserl´s landmark Ideas for a Pure Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (1913). The selection encompasses essays that Husserl responded to directly in the Ideas I, as well as a number of the critical and sympathetic essays that appeared in the wake of its publication. Significantly, the present volume also includes Husserl´s subsequent responses to his critics. All of the texts included have been translated into English for the first time, introducing the reader to a wide range of long-neglected material that is highly relevant to contemporary debates regarding the meaning and possibility of phenomenology.

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"If this kind of work is representative of the new generation of Husserl scholars, then I think that we have much to look forward to." - Chadd Kidd in Notre Dame Philosophical Review

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Andrea Staiti and Evan Clarke, Boston College, Boston MA, USA.

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