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In Husserl's early writings (the Logical Investigations and the first section of Ideas I) the main concern of phenomenological investigations is the givenness of the ideal entities of logic and formal ontology. Another field in his earlier writings is the phenomenology of perception and time consciousness. This field of research broadens into the vision of a universal transcendental aesthetics, which, in his later writings, provides the basis for solving the problem of intersubjectivity.¹ The final "synthesis" of these fields and problem domains is to be found in the phenomenological theory of the life-world. Lectures and research manuscripts² of the late period show also that this second field of phenomenological research is for Husserl of increasing significance for his phenomenology of logic, because it pro­vides the background for the phenomenology of the genesis of logical form as a necessary supplement to the earlier static investigations. For various reasons it is not wise to treat manuscripts and lectures as sources for investigations about what Husserl himself might have had in mind. They served Husserl as material for further research and he modified and sometimes even rejected the descriptions of the manu­scripts. This is the way in which I myself will use this material in this paper. In addition it has to be taken into account that today the phenomenology of logic has to deal with developments in the field of formalized logic not known to Husserl.

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1804-2_7

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