Abstract

The second half of Husserl's university lectures of 1923-24 are given, along with supplementary materials from Husserl's Nachlaß which the editor adds in an attempt to clarify the obscurities and bewildering jumps of the lectures. To this are appended variant readings from 3 mss, all presented with the painstaking care usually reserved for biblical scholarship. Departing from his earlier contention that the Cartesian is a unique way to Transcendental Phenomenology, Husserl explores other means for eliminating contingency, and thereby achieving an apodictic starting point for philosophy as a strict science: 1) the development of a phenomenological psychology, 2) a criticism of the positive sciences, and 3) the demonstration that positive ontologies require an absolute and universal ontology. But in granting that there might be other ways to Transcendental Phenomenology Husserl implicitly suggests the impossibility of an apodictic starting point.--D. D. O.