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.
