ABSTRACT
Incorporating psychology into philosophy required no religious conversion; the path had long since been forged by the modern way of ideas. The intentionality of consciousness was the burning bush Edmund Husserl took to heart, breaking through the impasses of modern subjectivism and restoring to philosophy the whole world; one need only practice the phenomenological reduction to see it. Husserl insists that phenomenology is not a “system” deriving from the head of a single “genius”, but a communal practice, a “research program” in the loose sense that analytic philosophy might be considered one. If transcendental phenomenology of mind concerns the conditions of possibility for meaning, then it seeks the categories that clarify the being who inhabits a space of meaning. For both Husserl and M. Heidegger, commitment to philosophy entails a reduction from entities to their being, a categorial distinction between transcendental subjectivity and the “human being.”
