<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article intends to identify what is at stake in Stumpf’s critical assessment of Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology as a “phenomenology without phenomena”. After reconstructing the main arguments through which these two conceptions of phenomenology argue against each other, it is argued that the main issue of this debate concerns the value that is attributed to the idea of intentionality in the definition of the phenomenological program, and consequently in the very definition of the “phenomenon”. Ultimately, the question risen is that of the relationship between phenomenology and philosophy itself, depending on whether phenomenology is conceived as a propedeutic science (Stumpf) or as a fundamental science (Husserl).</p></abstract>

This article intends to identify what is at stake in Stumpf’s critical assessment of Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology as a “phenomenology without phenomena”. After reconstructing the main arguments through which these two conceptions of phenomenology argue against each other, it is argued that the main issue of this debate concerns the value that is attributed to the idea of intentionality in the definition of the phenomenological program, and consequently in the very definition of the “phenomenon”. Ultimately, the question risen is that of the relationship between phenomenology and philosophy itself, depending on whether phenomenology is conceived as a propedeutic science (Stumpf) or as a fundamental science (Husserl).

With or without phenomena? Phenomenology between Stumpf and Husserl

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Phainomenon

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This article intends to identify what is at stake in Stumpf’s critical assessment of Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology as a “phenomenology without...

With or without phenomena? Phenomenology between Stumpf and Husserl

Publicado en línea: 14 oct 2021

Páginas: 95 - 115

Recibido: 04 oct 2017

Aceptado: 20 nov 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2017-0006

Palabras clave
Stumpf, Husserl, Phenomenology, Phenomena, Intentionality

© 2017 Julien Farges, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

With or without phenomena? Phenomenology between Stumpf and Husserl

Publicado en línea: 14 oct 2021

Páginas: 95 - 115

Recibido: 04 oct 2017

Aceptado: 20 nov 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2017-0006

Palabras claveStumpf, Husserl, Phenomenology, Phenomena, Intentionality

© 2017 Julien Farges, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
Stumpf, Husserl, Phenomenology, Phenomena, Intentionality