Husserl's transcendental phenomenology

The literature on the work of Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) abounds in specialized studies of various aspects of his philosophy - that is, transcendental phenomenology. Yet there have been few attempts to present Husserl's philosophy as a whole. No wonder, for Husserl's mammoth literary output over some forty years and the highly diverse nature of his investigations have made it extremely difficult to make a broad survey of his work. In addition, Husserl's philosophy is not a fixed system that can be neatly derived from a few general principles, but is rather a method of inquiry that regularly modified itself in the light of its own results. Now one of the world's leading Husserl scholars presents a unified and critical interpretation of Husserl's philosophical work from the only point of view from which its continuity can be grasped: method. The culmination of several decades of intense scholarly engagement with Husserl's phenomenology, her work reveals as no other the dynamic interplay between the development of Husserl's method and the thematic progression of his research. Taking as her point of orientation Husserl's self-professed goal of realizing the ideal of First Philosophy in