Abstract
The world as "the genuine matter of phenomenology"-to cite a contemporary author, Klaus Held (Held 1992, 130)-is linked with one of Edmund Husserl's most important philosophical inceptions, one still living today even if in its contemporary form it is associated, as usual, with revisions, reversals, and heresies. Thus Martin Heidegger, Eugen Fink, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and other philosophers who have critically contested Husserl's transcendental-philosophical point of departure in considerable detail have taken the problem of the world in new directions, at times amounting to a kind of cosmological turn.
But the productive engagement with such challenges-challenges that persist to this day, as in, for example, the work of Renaud Barbaras-has also certainly led to attempts to renew Husserl's phenomenological approach to the world, and thereby to reinstate the world as a phenomenological problem.