ABSTRACT
While there are many ways to follow a line of thematic concern through Husserl’s phenomenological studies, the title of this paper suggests two issues that give his work a distinctive stamp. 1 The first of these, and one of his earliest phenomenological themes, is his counteraction against “naturalism” in order to secure for phenomenology its proper “terrain.” The other, one of the features of his mature, post-Ideas phenomenology, is his emphasis on genetic analysis as contrasted with static hierarchical differentiation. And in this one must not neglect to note that Husserl’s work in each of these issues displays a typical provisionality that qualifies the otherwise basic necessity that work on each possesses within his program; for it is with the continued extension, deepening, and advance of investigative achievement that the fuller sense of studies at earlier stages of their inquiry can be made clear.
