Intention and Fulfillment in Early Phenomenology

ISBN: 978-3-88405-525-0

This paper investigates the critical reception that Edmund Husserl’s Logical Investigations experienced within the so-called Munich and Göttingen Circles of phenomenology. The criticism that was raised, especially those by Adolf Reinach and Theodor Conrad, mainly concerns Husserl’s theory of intentionality and in particular the relations between thought and intuition as described in the Logical Investigations. Contrary to a common reconstruction within received literature, it is argued that due to this critical reception, early phenomenologists did not share some of the main assumptions of Husserl’s research program.