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The second stage in Husserl's thinking on time-consciousness found its expression in the so-called L-manuscripts. These manuscripts are also referred to as the Bernau manuscripts, named after the place in which Husserl wrote them in the years 1917 and 1918.¹ As has already emerged in the preceding part of this inquiry, Husserl also occupied himself with the analysis of time-consciousness in the years between the lecture manuscript from 1905 and the L-manuscripts. This is attested by the texts that are included in part B of Hua X under the title "Supplementary Texts Setting Forth the Development of the Problem." Nevertheless, the L-manuscripts may be considered the first extensive attempt following the lecture manuscript to achieve clarity in this domain. One occasion for Husserl's renewed interest in the analysis of time was the reworking of his lecture manuscript on the phenomenology of time from WS '04/'05 and some of the texts on this subject from the following years by Edith Stein, Husserl's assistant in Freiburg in the period from 1916 to 1918. Stein started with this reworking in Bernau in the summer of 1917. Husserl's own occupation with this reworking led to the emergence of completely new manuscripts.²

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9918-4_4

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