Sixth Cartesian Meditation

RONALD BRUZINA is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He has published extensively on transcendental phenomenology.

"Fink's study of Descartes's sixth Meditation is an invaluable addition to the corpus of Husserl scholarship. More than simply a scholarly treatise, however, it is the result of Fink's collaboration with Husserl during the last ten years of Husserl's life. The textual notations and appendixes by Husserl, which are included in this book, demonstrate the close work between the two thinkers, and indeed they also show Husserl's endorsement of Fink's project. Bruzina, whose lengthy introduction sets forth the historical circumstances and context from which this work emerged, does a fine job illustrating the rightful importance of this work. This truly essential work in phenomenology should find a prominent place alongside Husserl's own works. For readers interested in phenomenology—and in Husserl in particular—it cannot be recommended highly enough."—J. A. Bell, Southeastern Louisiana University, Choice, September 1995

• Translator's IntroductionDraft of a ForewordPrefatory Note (To the habilitation Text) December 1945Sixth (Cartesian) Meditation: The Idea of a Transcendental Theory of Method1. The Methodology limitation of the Previous Meditations2. The theme of the transcendental theory of method3. The 'self-reference' of phenomenology4. The problem and articulation of the transcendental theory of method5. Phenomenologizing as the action of reduction6. Phenomenologizing as as a process of regressive analysis7. Phenomenologizing in "constructive" phenomenology8. Phenomenologizing as theoretical experience9. Phenomenologizing as an action of ideation10.Phenomenologizing as prediction11.Phenomenologizing as 'making into a science'A. The problem of the scientificity of phenomenologizingB. The enworlding of phenomenologizingC. The concept of 'science'12. Phenomenology as transcendental idealismAppendices: Texts by Edmund Husserl relating to Eugen Fink's Draft of a Sixth MeditationAppendix I - XVTranslator's NotesIndex