Theodor Lipps und die Phänomenologie

Abstract

The purpose of my article is twofold: firstly, it indicates the structure aswell as the main characteristics of the phenomenology of Theodor Lipps; secondly, it brings to light its peculiar significance within the discussion of the time. The thesis that I put forward consists in two parts: Lipps develops a pure psychology, that is a phenomenology of spirit as a response toHusserl’s charge of psychologism posed in the Logical Investigations; in his opinion such a response is sustainable to the extent that it particularly emphasizes the metaphysical dimensionwhich distinguishes the phenomenological investigation.