Dirigida a principiantes más que a especialistas, la obra ofrece una de las disertaciones más claras y didácticas sobre la naturaleza de la fenomenología, sus objetos y sus métodos, así como sobre otros temas de extraordinario alcance para la crítica universal de la razón -la reducción fenomenológica y su nexo con el problema esencial de la constitución de los objetos en la conciencia-.
Husserl offers the direct exposure of transcendental phenomenology's idea's essential nucleus, just as he described publicly for the first time. Therefore, we have the opportunity to attend the clearest, most didactic presentation that the philosopher thought possible to do about the greatest ideas.
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (Dr. phil. hab., University of Halle-Wittenberg, 1887; Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Vienna, 1883) was a philosopher who is deemed the founder of phenomenology. He broke with the positivist orientation of the science and philosophy of his day, believing that experience is the source of all knowledge, while at the same time he elaborated critiques of psychologism and historicism.
Born into a Moravian Jewish family, he was baptized as a Lutheran in 1887. Husserl studied mathematics under Karl Weierstrass, completing a Ph.D. under Leo Königsberger, and studied philosophy under Franz Brentano and Carl Stumpf. Husserl taught philosophy, as a Privatdozent at Halle from 1887, then as professor, first at Göttingen from 1901, then at Freiburg im Breisgau from 1916 until his 1928 retirement.
El texto refiere a los conceptos sobre fenomenología desde la perspectiva de Husserl. La terminología que emplea es sencilla, aunque presenta apartes que no son comprensibles para aquellos que no somos filósofos. No obstante, permite hacerse una idea sobre lo que se pretende con la fenomenología y lo que le distingue de otras aproximaciones científicas.