Abstract

Any commentator willing to brave the chilly waters of Husserl’s Ideen I ought to be commended just for the attempt. Ideas is an extremely and notoriously difficult work, and this fact complicates any attempt "to retrieve Husserl’s basic insight and to bring it to the evident givenness of that clear perception which we can greet with the exclamation, ‘Oh, now I see!'". Yet, Kohák has produced a commentary which not only retrieves Husserl’s insight but does so in the way Husserl would most approve, by appropriating anew the truth that philosophical reflection is the "seeing" of the essential structures of lived experience.