Abstract

Carr examines whether Husserl’s later recognition of the importance of history, and the historical situation in which philosophy is carried out, destroys his earlier conception of philosophy as "transcendental," as the analysis of changeless, trans-historical structures of reason and experience. In the first nine chapters he discusses texts from different periods of Husserl’s development and surmises that some evidence exists for an affirmative answer: Husserl does seem to imply, especially in the Crisis and parts of Experience and Judgment, that cultural concepts so permeate our life-world that it is impossible to isolate structures which go beyond our situation.