Abstract
The fifth and final meditation of Edmund Hussefl's Cartesian Meditations
has been the subject of a great deal of attention over the years. A number of
commentators have focused on Husserl's treatment of the experience of
other subjects there and the majority of them have been quite critical. What
is not often remarked on, however, is that Husserl's initial intention at least
in the Fifth Meditation is to address another topic, one that he evidently
considers to be of even greater urgency. 1 This topic comprises what Husserl
calls "transcendental problems pertaining to the Objective WorM. ''2 This
topic is an urgent one, he tells us, because unless such problems can be
solved his phenomenology remains open to "what may seem to be a grave
objection. ''