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Historicism: Some Thoughts on Life-World

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More than three decades ago, Walter Biemel read a paper at the Third Colloquium of Philosophy at Royaumont on “The Decisive Phases in the Development of Husserl’s Philosophy” that seemed to be definitive.1 Notwithstanding the great value of the facts and reflections that he provided, and the numerous studies devoted afterwards to the same problem, it is not easy to fix different stages in Husserl’s work. This difficulty is increased by the lack of a strict synchrony between the works that Husserl himself published and those that remained unpublished after his death and have been laboriously recovered by his disciples. Actually, in manuscripts belonging to early moments in his life we find theories which would appear in much later publications. Thus, the problems concerning subjectivity, focusing on the study of the “living soma” (der Leib) and its kinesthetic experiences, and the knowledge of the “alter ego” by means of “empathy” (die Einfuhlung), that were made public in the Cartesian Meditations in 1931, are outlined in his lectures on The Fundamental Problems of Phenomenology of the Winter Semester of 1910–11.