Abstract

With the publication of these lectures, given in the summer semester of 1907 at the University of Göttingen, all of Husserl’s course on the “Main Parts of the Phenomenology and Critique of Reason” is now available. They were preceded by the publication in 1964 of a translation of the first five lectures of the course under the title The Idea of Phenomenology, which was first published in German in 1950. As Husserl wrote in a private notebook, the themes of the course were to be the “problems of a phenomenology of perception, of phantasy, of time, of the thing”. As worked out in the course, the lectures describe the conditions of possibility of the presentation of a thing in visual perception, the role of kinaesthetic experience in the unification of the series of images of the thing presented, and the temporal background of the presentation.