Edmund Husserl’s Constructive Phenomenology in the C-Manuscripts and Other Late Research Manuscripts

Abstract

This study aims to underline some features in Edmund Husserl’s concept of constructive phenomenology, particularly in the C-manuscripts (1929–1934) and also in other materials. For the author, the significance of this late work is that it contains Husserl’s all four phenomenological methods, transparently and maturely developed, coordinated and interrelated, namely: static, genetic, generative, and constructive method. While the first three are limited to the possible attitude and are restricted to the domain of possible intuitive givenness, the peculiarity of constructive phenomenology is to venture beyond the limits of intuitive accessibility in a phenomenologically legitimate way. Thus, it makes available the “supreme and final” metaphysical questions, and, ultimately, lays down the foundations of phenomenological metaphysics. In this study, I try to show how Husserl attempts to apply the constructive phenomenological method.

Keywords

• edmund husserl
• constructive phenomenology
• c-manuscripts
• phenomenological metaphysics