"Streichen wir das Bewußtsein, so streichen wir die Welt." : Edith Stein on Husserl's Transcendental Idealism: Critical Remarks
2022
Abstract
This paper presents a systematic discussion of Edith Stein's critical understanding of Husserl's transcendental-phenomenological ideal-ism. After a brief explanation of the way in which, according to Stein, Husserl's idealism should be framed, this paper offers an evaluation of her criticism with a special focus on her Introduction to Philosophy lectures of 1920.
I argue that if, ultimately, Stein's rejection of Husserl's idealism in the text in question is deemed un-successful, we must examine the premises on which her own per-spective on the eidetics of nature is based.