ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I reconstruct the development of the genetic approach to phenomenology starting from the first hints in Logical Investigations through the complex analyses of the 1920s and 1930s until its culmination in the theory of judgment in Experience and Judgment. A crucial step is acknowledged in the lectures on The Basic Problems of Phenomenology from 1910/1911. Genetic phenomenology progressively distinguishes itself from the static descriptive method that had set the basis for the success of phenomenology not only in contemporary philosophy but also psychology, psychopathology, and other human sciences. In the end, both approaches build a complementarity and provide important tools for phenomenological research. Only with the genetic account, however, can an authentic change of the naturalistic paradigm become possible and the concreteness of human experience be explored in its full subjective meaning.
