On some motives for Husserl's genetic turn in his research on a foundation of the Geisteswissenschaften

Dieter Lohmar

in: Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Andrea Staiti (eds), The promise of genetic phenomenology, Studia Phaenomenologica 18, 2018.

Abstract

My contribution tries to outline some of the motives that lead Husserl to genetic phenomenology. The starting point are the analyses he wrote to include in Ideas I and Ideas II, which are dedicated to the founding of human sciences during the period 1910–1916. Here we find an intertwinement of investigations concerned with an understanding of others (on lowest and higher levels) and their contribution to the constitution of objectivity, and new research of the genesis of the way in which individual experience shapes our access to the world. My main interest is to point out systematic connections between these two directions of research which are general characteristics of genetic phenomenology.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund