Sixth Cartesian Meditation The Idea of a Transcendental Theory of Method [Hardcover]

Ronald Bruzinas superb translation... makes available in English a text of singular historical and systematic importance for phenomenology. Husserl Studies

... a pivotal document in the development of phenomenology... essential reading for students of phenomenology twentieth-century thought. Word Trade

... an invaluable addition to the corpus of Husserl scholarship. More than simply a scholarly treatise, however, it is the result of Finks collaboration with Husserl during the last ten years of Husserls life.... This truly essential work in phenomenology should find a prominent place alongside Husserls own works. For readers interested in phenomenologyand in Husserl in particularit cannot be recommended highly enough. Choice

... a thorough critique of Husserls transcendental phenomenology... raises many new questions.... a classic. J. N. Mohanty

A foundational text in Husserlian phenomenology, written in 1932 and now available in English for the first time.

RONALD BRUZINA is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He has published extensively on transcendental phenomenology.

Translators Introduction
Draft of a Foreword
Prefatory Note (To the habilitation Text) December 1945

Sixth (Cartesian) Meditation: The Idea of a Transcendental Theory of Method

1. The Methodology limitation of the Previous Meditations
2. The theme of the transcendental theory of method
3. The self-reference of phenomenology
4. The problem and articulation of the transcendental theory of method
5. Phenomenologizing as the action of reduction
6. Phenomenologizing as as a process of regressive analysis
7. Phenomenologizing in constructive phenomenology
8. Phenomenologizing as theoretical experience
9. Phenomenologizing as an action of ideation
10.Phenomenologizing as prediction
11.Phenomenologizing as making into a science