We are making steady progress through Husserl's Crisis book.

Our next meeting will be on Wed 8 Nov 5pm by zoom. 

We will be discussing Husserl, Crisis (trans. Carr), up to page 121. 

For contact details see below.

 Our next meeting will be on 25 October at 5pm. 

We will be discussing Husserl's Crisis book up to page 90 in Carr's translation (end of section 24). 

For details of meetings and texts, see below. 

 At our second meeting we will discuss the pages up to 59 (in Carr's translation).

The meeting will be on Wed 11 October at 5pm by zoom. For the link, please contact alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk

 Meetings up to December and first reading

We read Husserl's Crisis book this year (details below).

The provisional schedule of meetings (Wednesdays 5pm, by zoom) is:

27 Sept

11 Oct

25 Oct

8 Nov

22 Nov

6 Dec

(20 Dec, to be confirmed)

 

For the 27 Sept meeting, we read up to the end of section §9a (p. 28 in Carr's translation, up to p. 25 in the Meiner edition ).

 

Please contact alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk for getting the zoom link.

Academic Year 2023–24: Husserl, The Crisis of European Science and Transcendental Phenomenology

We have decided to read this late important work by Husserl in the coming acacemic year. Details below. 

We will meet as usual fortnightly on Wednesdays at 5pm UK time by zoom. We will begin our meetings in late September or early October. For the zoom link, please contact alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk. 

We will read the work in English, although some of us will read it in the original as well.

Husserl, Edmund, The Crisis of European Science and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy, transl. David Carr (Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 1970)

Husserl, Edmund, Die Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phänomenologie. Eine Einleitung in die phänomenologische Philosophie, ed. Walter Biemel (Husserliana 6; The Hague: Nijhoff, 1976) (and reprints, e.g. Meiner: https://meiner.de/philosophische-bibliothek/h/husserl/die-krisis-der-europaischen-wissenschaften-und-die-transzendentale-phanomenologie.html ).

 Final meeting on Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment

Our final meeting of the academic year will take place on Wed 31 May at 5pm. 

We will discuss the second half of the "First Introduction" (Guyer and Matthews, pp. 28–51), and review suggestions from the group on what to read next academic year. 

If you have questions or wish to receive the zoom link, please get in touch with Alex (alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk).

 Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgement

We will next read the "First Introduction" (Guyer and Matthews) pp. 1–51 (the German is available in many places, including Weischedel vol. V and online)

For Wed 10 May 5pm, we will read up to the end of section VIII (so up to p. 28 in Guyer and Matthews).