ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the moments in the historical and methodological relationship between analytic philosophy and the largely continental tradition of phenomenology. It focuses on the reception of Husserl's early phenomenological work by Russell and Moore in their early analytic period. The story of the "parting of the ways" is well known, often accompanied by a summary of adversarial encounters between representatives of either side of the "divide", with phenomenologists such as Husserl and Heidegger on one side and "analytics" like Frege, Carnap, and Ryle ranged on the other. Husserl's phenomenological turn dates from his Logical Investigations (LI), which were published in two volumes, namely Prolegomena to Pure Logic and Investigations in Phenomenology and the Theory of Knowledge. The phenomenology is intermittently brought within or conceived of as complementary to ordinary language philosophy. Ambivalence towards phenomenology might ensue simply because of confusion about the nature of the movement or its potential significance.
