The problem of the epoché in Husserl's philosophy

Elisabeth Ströker

pp. 107-125

in: Elisabeth Ströker, The Husserlian foundations of science, Berlin, Springer, 1997

Abstract

I. The decisive turn in Husserl's philosophy, which occurred a few years after the publication of the Logical Investigations (1900–1901), is characterized by the term "epoché." Husserl himself conceived of this turn as a withdrawal from phenomenology as descriptive psychology, in the sense of an analysis of the mental processes of empirical consciousness. Subsequently, he called for a transcendental phenomenology which seeks to clarify the conditions of the possibility of the empirical knowledge of being and, eventually, disclose the sense of being and existence as such.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund