Manchester Phenomenology Reading Group: Husserl's Crisis book as a whole

Our next meeting will be on 24 April at 5pm. After discussing at the last meeting the appendix of the Crisis book on the Origin of Geometry, the next session is meant to range across the whole of the text and highlight topics that have struck us as being of particular interest or problematical. It will conclude our engagement with Crisis, although there may be further meetings concerned with topics arising from it. 

If you wish to receive a zoom invite, please contact alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk. 

Husserl's 'Origin of Geometry':

 Next session, 10 April, 5pm–6.30: Husserl, Crisis appendix "Origin of Geometry". 

We had a meeting on 27 March, devoted to the final sections of the Crisis book (§§71–72, plus taking note of the appendix which Biemel, the editor of the relevant Husserliana volume, used as the concluding §73). 

We decided to read for 10 April the above appendix, together with relevant earlier parts of the Crisis book where Husserl speaks of the role of geometry in the emergence of modern science in Galileo's work and leading up to it.

The appendix is reprinted in the Husserliana volume for Krisis, and in Carr's translation, as appendix VI. That Carr translation is also available as part of the book by Derrida, Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry: An Introduction, trans. Leavey, U of Nebraska Press, 1978 (1962).

The first publication was posthumously, as 'Die Frage nach dem Ursprung der Geometrie als intentional-historisches Problem', in Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 1 (1939), pp. 207–225, with a preface by Eugen Fink, pp. 203–206 (available through JSTOR). The manuscript, with some differences to Fink's publication, is presented in Biemel's Husserliana 6 edition of Krise, as Beilage III, pp. 365–386. 

If you wish to take part, please get in touch with alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk for the zoom link.

 Next meeting 6 March at 5pm: §§ 62–70 of Husserl, Crisis (pp. 214–244 in the Carr translation)

On Wednesday we finished our discussion of the lectures on the epoché of acts of 'fantasy' (and the epoché of acts of epoché) in First Philosophy. For our next meeting we return to the Crisis book (details above).

Anyone wishing to join the group, please get in touch with Alex at alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk

 We meet again on 21 February 5pm, reading pages from First Philosophy and perhaps also Crisis.

We will devote a second meeting to our discussion of First Philosophy, lectures 43–47 (in Part Two; for details see below). Additionally, we plan to discuss, if we get round to it, the Crisis book up to the end of § 66 (that is, up to p. 229 in Carr's translation). 

If you wish to receive the zoom for our meetings, please get in touch with alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk.

 Next Meeting 7 February 5pm 

We decided to interrupt our progress through the Crisis book in order to devote our next session to lectures 43-47 in Husserl's 1923-4 lecture series First Philosophy, Part Two. 

 Please also note the irregular distance to our next meeting. 

 If you wish to take part please get in touch with Alex (alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk). 

 Next Meeting January 17, 2024

Our next meeting will discuss Husserl's Crisis book up to the end of § 61 (that is, up to p. 215 in the Carr translation). 

The meetings of the reading group take place fortnightly, on Wednesdays, via zoom. 

Please get in touch with Alex if you require access. (alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk)

 Last Wednesday we had fun with Husserl finally spelling out some of the topics he was leading up to. 

We decided to confirm our meeting on 20 December, reading up to the end of §55 (Carr, p. 189), which is also the end of part III A of the book. 

That is, we will reach the end of "The Way into Phenomenological Transcdentental Philosophy by Inquiring back from the Pregiven Life World", leading to III B, namely, "The Way into Phenonmenological Transcendental Philosophy from Psychology".