1. Indeed, the present essay will hint that the seeds of this postmodernism are already present in the Logical Investigations, but to develop this argument fully would take us too far afield. Earlier drafts of this essay were presented at the American/Japanese Phenomenology Conference, University of Tokyo-Komaba, October 1–4, 1992, and at the 25th annual Husserl Circle Conference at DePaul University, June 23–27, 1993. I wish to thank the discussants at both conferences for their helpful criticisms. I also wish to thank Denny Bradshaw, Tim Mahoney, and Charles Nussbaum for some very insightful criticisms of an earlier draft of the present essay.
2. Edmund Husserl, Logical Investigations, 2 vols., trans. J. N. Findlay (New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970), vol. I, Prolegomena, Ch. 1. Hereinafter referred to as LI, Hua XVIII, pp. 25–43. Here I follow convention and refer to Husserliana, the standard German collection of Husserl’s works, as ‘Hua’ followed by volume and pages. Logische Untersuchungen: Erster Band, Prolegomena zur reien Logik, ed. Elmar Holenstein, Hua XVIII (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975). Logische Untersuchungen: Zweiter Band (Parts 1 and 2), ed. Ursula Panzer, Hua XIX/1, XIX/2 ( The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1984 ).
3. See Edmund Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy, trans. David Carr (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1970), Crisis, Part III, A, pp. 103–189, Hua VI, pp. 105–193. Hereinafter cited as Crisis. Die Krisis der Europäischen Wissenschaften und die Transzendentale Phänomenologie: Eine Einleitung in die phänomenologische Philosophie, ed. Walter Biemel, Hua VI ( The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976 ).
4. Edmund Husserl, “Philosophy as Rigorous Science,” in Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy, trans. Quentin Lauer (N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1965), pp. 71–147, quotation from p. 71. Hereinafter referred to as PRS, Hua XXV, p. 3. Aufsätze und Vorträge (1911–1921), eds. Thomas Nenon and Hans Rainer Sepp, Hua XXV ( The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987 ).
5. PRS, p. 77, Hua XXV, p. 6.