Despite an ever-growing scholarly interest in the work of Edmund Husserl and in the history of
the phenomenological movement much of the contemporaneous scholarly context surrounding
Husserl's work remains shrouded in darkness. While much has been written about the critiques of
Husserl's work associated with Heidegger Levinas and Sartre comparatively little is known of
the debates that Husserl was directly involved in. The present volume addresses this gap in
scholarship by presenting a comprehensive selection of contemporaneous responses to Husserl's
work. Ranging in date from 1906 to 1917 these texts bookend Husserl's landmark Ideas for a
Pure Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (1913). The selection encompasses essays
that Husserl responded to directly in the Ideas I as well as a number of the critical and
sympathetic essays that appeared in the wake of its publication. Significantly the present
volume also includes Husserl's subsequent responses to his critics. All of the texts included
have been translated into English for the first time introducing the reader to a wide range of
long-neglected material that is highly relevant to contemporary debates regarding the meaning
and possibility of phenomenology.
