Ebook: The Totalizing Act: Key to Husserl’s Early Philosophy

The Origins of Husserl's Totalizing Act At noon on Monday, October 24th, 1887, Dr. Edmund G. Husserl defended the dissertation that would qualify him as a university lecturer at Halle. Entitled "On the Concept of Number," it was written under Carl Stumpf who, like Husserl, had been a student of Franz Brentano. In this, his first published philosophical work, Husserl sought to secure the foundations of mathematics by deriving its most fundamental concepts from psychical acts.! In the same year, Heinrich Hertz published an article entitled, "Con­ cerning an Influence of Ultraviolet Light on the Electrical Discharge." The article detailed his discovery of a new "relation between two entirely different forces," those of light and electricity. Hermann von Helmholtz, whose theory guided Hertz's initial research, called it the "most important physical discovery of the century," and Hertz became an immediate sensation. He lectured on his discovery in 1889 before a general session of the German Association meeting in Heidelberg. In this lecture that, as he wrote beforehand to Emil Cohn, he was deter­ mined should not be "entirely unintelligible to the laity," Hertz explained that light ether and electro-magnetic forces were interdependent. He went on to tell his audience that they need not expect their senses to grant them access to these phenomena. Indeed, he said, the latter are not only insusceptible of sense perception, but are false from the standpoint of the senses.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-17
The Totalizing Act: Key To Husserl’s Early Philosophy....Pages 18-30
The Concept of the Totalizing Act as Collective Connection: Progenitor of Number....Pages 31-46
Symbolizing: Prosthesis of the Totalizing Act....Pages 47-60
The Symbolic Totalization of Sensible Multitudes....Pages 61-71
The Intuitive Totalization of the Individual Sense Object....Pages 72-89
The Totalizing Act as Mediator of the Ideal and Real....Pages 90-108
The Ensoulment of Sensation: Triumph of the Totalizing Psyche....Pages 109-125
Back Matter....Pages 126-150

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-17
The Totalizing Act: Key To Husserl’s Early Philosophy....Pages 18-30
The Concept of the Totalizing Act as Collective Connection: Progenitor of Number....Pages 31-46
Symbolizing: Prosthesis of the Totalizing Act....Pages 47-60
The Symbolic Totalization of Sensible Multitudes....Pages 61-71
The Intuitive Totalization of the Individual Sense Object....Pages 72-89
The Totalizing Act as Mediator of the Ideal and Real....Pages 90-108
The Ensoulment of Sensation: Triumph of the Totalizing Psyche....Pages 109-125
Back Matter....Pages 126-150
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