The Basic Problems of Phenomenology: From the Lectures, Winter Semester, 1910–1911 From the German “Aus den Vorlesungen, Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie, Wintersemester 1910/1911” in Zur Phänomenologie der Intersubjektivität, Husserliana XIII, edited by
Edmund Husserl (auth.)This book provides a short introduction to Husserlian Phenomenology by Husserl himself. Husserl highly regarded his work "The Basic Problems of Phenomenology" as basic for his theory of the phenomenological reduction. He considered this work as equally fundamental for the theory of empathy and intersubjectivity, for his theory of the life-world, and for his planned "great systematic work." It contrasts favorably with several later "introductions" because, although quite brief, it has a larger scope than they do and conveys in a relatively elementary way the sense of fresh new beginnings. Further, with the appendices, it reveals Husserl in a critical dialogue with himself. That the second part of the lectures was never written down, can be accounted for in part, because at that time Husserl was busy writing the 1911 path-breaking essay, which complements these lectures, "Philosophy as a Rigorous Science."