Murie Ronald Ronald itibaren Kargın, 06870 Kargın/Kalecik/Ankara, Turkey itibaren Kargın, 06870 Kargın/Kalecik/Ankara, Turkey

This is good. So far, the best intro. to H. that I've read, and the shortest by a long shot. D.W. Smith's Routledge intro. (lime green + black jacket) is a lot fatter and a lot more diffuse than this, not managing to pull together the different threads of Husserl's phenomenology like Zahavi does, resulting in more of an overview. J.N. Mohanty's is interesting but a bit vague at key moments. Namely-- what is a noema?! Is (the early) Husserl a Platonist? Zahavi, for what it's worth, has answers. In the case of the noema, it ~can't~ be what the Føllesdal-McIntyre interp. says it is (a Fregean Sinn, more or less) because that would circumscribe the possibility of transcendental phenomenology. Z. thinks the Husserl of _Logical Investigations_ was metaphysically neutral (I don't agree) and that the later Husserl was definitely not a Platonist (I agree). The latter point is obvious enough just by virtue of this analyses of the lived body (Leib), intersubjectivity, and sedimentation as necessary for constituting certain layers of objectivity, without which the world would not 'make sense' in the familiar, everyday style.