Abstract

This study is concerned in general with the relationship in Husserl’s thought between logic, phenomenology, and ontology, although the issue is addressed primarily by means of a study of the Logical Investigations. This limitation is justified, Grünewald contends, because the Investigations is a seminal work for Husserl and because Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology appears as the consequence of his own critical reflections upon the problems found in his early, pre-transcendental phenomenology, especially that of the first edition of the Investigations. According to Grünewald, then, reflection upon these problems and the changes motivated by them in the second edition of the Investigations discloses the motives for the transition to a transcendental phenomenology and provides a way for phenomenologists and non-phenomenologists alike to address the general issue.