Naturwissenschaftliche Psychologie, Geisteswissenschaft und Metaphysik (1919)

Abstract

This text, published here for the first time, consists of pages 25–29 of convolute A IV 16. The convolute contains a fragment of the lecture “Nature and Spirit” that Husserl had given on February 21, 1919 at the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft in Freiburg, as well as the manuscript of an earlier version of the lecture. These texts have been published in Aufsätze und Vorträge (1910–1911), Thomas Nenon and Hans Rainer Sepp eds., Husserliana Bd. XXV (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987), pp. 316–330. The text published here most probably originated in connection with the composition of the lecture, thus from the beginning of 1919. It is quite possible that the text is fragmentary and that the initial pages are missing. The text is written in ink in Gabelsberger stenography. The title comes from the editor. The not very numerous alterations of the text are likewise made in ink. As is often the case in Husserl’s text there are numerous underlinings in ink and pencil, not all of which have been adopted. The editor has improved the text stylistically or grammatically in only a few places. Insertions by the editor are in angled brackets. The critical remarks of the editor on the text will be limited to the unavoidable minimum.