Publication of Edmund Husserl's two-volume Logical Investigations at the turn of the twentieth century signaled
the beginning of a new philosophical age. Husserl's novel conception of the relationships between language and
experience, meaning and reference, and subject and object opened the door to phenomenology. From 1900 until his
death in 1938 Husserl progressed from foundational studies in mathematics and logic, through a phenomenology of
intentional acts, to a reframing of his phenomenology as transcendental, and finally as diachronic and dynamic.
A major reference point for most of the seminal thinkers in twentieth-century Continental philosophy, Husserl's
thought retains its currency today.
The Essential Husserl, the first anthology in English of Husserl's major writings, provides access to the scope
of his philosophical studies, including selections from his key works: Logical Investigations, Ideas I and II,
Formal and Transcendental Logic, Experience and Judgment, Cartesian Meditations, The Crisis of European Sciences
and Transcendental Phenomenolgy, and On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time, as well as excerpts
from manuscript materials. The collection is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in twentieth-century
philosophy.