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Cartesian Meditations

Name: Cartesian Meditations
Author: Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl Original title Cartesianische Meditationen (German)

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 Vortrage, 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.

“First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must "once in his life" withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting.”

Edmund Husserl book Cartesian Meditations

Edmund Husserl, Cartesian Meditations (1931). Méditations cartésiennes