Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy

the Logische Untersuchungen,l phenomenology has been conceived as a substratum of empirical psychology, as a sphere comprising "imma nental" descriptions of psychical mental processes, a sphere compris ing descriptions that - so the immanence in question is understood - are strictly confined within the bounds of internal experience. It 2 would seem that my protest against this conception has been oflittle avail; and the added explanations, which sharply pinpointed at least some chief points of difference, either have not been understood or have been heedlessly pushed aside. Thus the replies directed against my criticism of psychological method are also quite negative because they miss the straightforward sense of my presentation. My criticism of psychological method did not at all deny the value of modern psychology, did not at all disparage the experimental work done by eminent men. Rather it laid bare certain, in the literal sense, radical defects of method upon the removal of which, in my opinion, must depend an elevation of psychology to a higher scientific level and an extraordinary amplification ofits field of work. Later an occasion will be found to say a few words about the unnecessary defences of psychology against my supposed "attacks.

Contenu
One Essence and Eidetic Cognition.- One Matter of Fact and Essence.- Two Naturalistic Misinterpretations.- Two The Considerations Fundamental to Phenomenology.- One The Positing Which Belongs to the Natural Attitude and Its Exclusion.- Two Consciousness and Natural Actuality.- Three The Region of Pure Consciousness.- Four The Phenomenological Reductions.- Three Methods and Problems of Pure Phenomenology.- One Preliminary Methodic Deliberations.- Two Universal Structures of Pure Consciousness.- Three Noesis and Noema.- Four The Set of Problems Pertaining to Noetic-Noematic Structures.- Four Reason and Actuality.- One The Noematic Sense and the Relation to the Object.- Two Phenomenology of Reason.- Three The Levels of Universality Pertaining to The Problems of the Theory of Reason.- Index to Proper Names.- Analytic Subject Index.