The last decade has witnessed the beginnings of a remarkable convergence of Husserlian phenonenology and analytic philosophy of language, and the present volumes provide Original and important texts of the phenomenological philosophy of language. Powerfully influenced by the writings of the early Husserl, Reinach fashioned Husserl's ideas into a rigorous analytical methodology of his own, which he applied in particular to problems in logic and the theory of knowledge, and to the philosophies of law and psychology. The central role of the concept of state of affairs in Reinach's philosophy will bring to mind immediately the formal ontology of Wittgenstein's Tractatus. Reinach's most significant contribution, however, is contained in his The a priori foundations of civil law (1913), above all in the detailed analysis of the a priori structure of the act of promising. This amounts to an elaborate phenomenological theory of speech acts which anticipates, and in some respects goes beyond, the later theories of Austin and Searle. The present edition is in two volumes. Volume 1, which includes a biographical and thematic introduction by the editors, contains critical editions of those pieces published by Reinach himself. Volume II is a collection of all those items in Reinach's surviving Nachlass which are in publishable form, including a number of important pieces not hitherto obtainable on such themes as ethical predicates, speech acts (soziale Akte), perception and the theory of number, together with a comprehensive sketch of the problems in the theory of knowledge, logic and ethics. Appended to this is a textcritical apparatus which also contains extensive discussions of the origins and sources of the materials in question. Of interest to: Phenomenologists, logicians, philosophers of language, philosophers of law, sociologists, students of these disciplines

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Reinach, stark von den Arbeiten des frühen Husserl beeinflusst, wandelte Husserls phänomenologische Methode in eine eigene streng analytische Methode um, die er insbesondere auf Probleme der Logik und der Wissenschaftstheorie, der Rechtsphilosophie und der Psychologie anwandte. Die zentrale Rolle des Begriffs der Sachverhalte in Reinachs Philosophie erinnert an die formale Ontologie in Wittgensteins Tractatus. Reinachs bedeutendster Beitrag jedoch ist enthalten in seinem Werk Die apriorischen Grundlagen des bürgerlichen Rechts (1913) und darüber hinaus in der detaillierten Analyse der a priori-struktur des Versprechensaktes. Diese Analyse beruht auf einer sorgfältig ausgearbeiteten phänomenologischen Theorie der Sprechakte, die die späteren Theorien von Austin und Searle vorwegnimmt und teilweise sogar über sie hinausgeht. Der vorliegende Nachdruck ist erweitert durch ein englischsprachiges Vorwort von John F. Crosby, der genau und ausführlich die Elemente von Reinachs Methode und deren Verwandtschaft mit den Methoden der zeitgenössischen analytischen Philosophie darlegt. Der Nachruf von Edmund Husserl nach Reinachs tragischem Tod an der Westfront im Jahr 1917 beschließt den Band.