Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology is a book by the philosopher Edmund Husserl, based on four lectures he gave at the Sorbonne, in the Amphithéatre Descartes on February 23 and 25, 1929. Over the next two years, he and his assistant Eugen Fink expanded and elaborated on the text of these lectures. These expanded lectures were first published in a 1931 French translation by Gabrielle Peiffer and Emmanuel Levinas with advice from Alexandre Koyré. They were published in German, along with the original Pariser Vorträge, in 1950, and again in an English translation by Dorion Cairns in 1960, based on a typescript of the text which Husserl had designated for Cairns in 1933.
Contents
The work is divided into five "meditations" of varying length, whose contents are as follows: • First Meditation: The Way to the Transcendental Ego • Second Meditation: The Field of Transcendental Experience • Third Meditation: Constitutional Problems • Fourth Meditation: Constitutional Problems Pertaining to the Transcendental Ego Itself • Fifth Meditation: Transcendental Being as Monadological Intersubjectivity ==Editions==
Editions
• Méditations Cartésiennes: Introduction à la phénoménologie. 1931. Gabrielle Peiffer and Emmanuel Levinas, trans. Paris: Armand Collin. • Méditations Cartésiennes: Introduction à la phénoménologie. 1947. Gabrielle Peiffer and Emmanuel Levinas, trans. Paris: Vrin. • Cartesian Meditations. 1960. Dorion Cairns, trans. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. ==References==