Despite an ever-growing scholarly interest in the work of Edmund Husserl and in the history of the phenomenological movement, much of the contemporaneous scholarly context surrounding Husserl's work remains shrouded in darkness. While much has been written about the critiques of Husserl's work associated with Heidegger, Levinas, and Sartre, comparatively little is known of the debates that Husserl was directly involved in. The present volume addresses this gap in scholarship by presenting a comprehensive selection of contemporaneous responses to Husserl's work. Ranging in date from 1906 to 1917, these texts bookend Husserl's landmark Ideas for a Pure Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (1913). The selection encompasses essays that Husserl responded to directly in the Ideas I, as well as a number of the critical and sympathetic essays that appeared in the wake of its publication. Significantly, the present volume also includes Husserl's subsequent responses to his critics. All of the texts included have been translated into English for the first time, introducing the reader to a wide range of long-neglected material that is highly relevant to contemporary debates regarding the meaning and possibility of phenomenology.

• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Part I Background (1905–1913)
• Theodor Elsenhans
• Theodor Elsenhans. Selections from Textbook of Psychology
• Henry Jackson Watt
• Henry J. Watt. Literature Review: Second General Review on New Research in the Psychology of Memory and Association from the Year 1905
• Carl Stumpf
• Carl Stumpf. Appearances And Psychic Functions
• Jonas Cohn
• Jonas Cohn. The Fundamental Questions of Psychology
• Theodor Ziehen
• Theodor Ziehen. Selections from Epistemology on the Basis of Psychophysiological and Physical Grounds
• August Messer
• August Messer. Husserl’s Phenomenology in its Relation to Psychology
• Part II. Responses (1913–1918)
• Heinrich Maier
• Heinrich Maier. Psychology and Philosophy
• August Messer. Husserl’s Phenomenology in its Relation to Psychology (Second Essay)
• Edmund Husserl. Draft of a Letter to August Messer (1914)
• Edmund Husserl. Remark on Messer and Cohn (February/March 1913: First Draft)
• Heinrich Gustav Steinmann
• Heinrich Gustav Steinmann. On the Systematic Position of Phenomenology
• Edith Stein
• Edith Stein. Concerning Heinrich Gustav Steinmann’s Paper “On the Systematic Position of Phenomenology”
• Paul Natorp
• Paul Natorp. Husserl’s Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology
• Theodor Elsenhans. Phenomenology, Psychology, Epistemology
• Paul F. Linke
• Paul F. Linke. The Legitimacy of Phenomenology: A Disagreement with Theodor Elsenhans
• Theodor Elsenhans. Phenomenology and the Empirical
• Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein. Critique of Theodor Elsenhans and August Messer (1917) (Edith Stein’s Draft)
• Contributors
• Index