[...]... starting from the thesis that meaning (Sinn) is prior in the order of inquiry to all “positive” (scientific and metaphysical) thematics The question of the meaning of meaning set the terms of the debate between phenomenologists and neo-Kantians Emil Lask, for instance, understood the space of meaning 14 H U S S E R L , H E I D E G G E R , A N D T H E S P A C E O F M E A N I N G (which he called the Geltungssphäre)... philosophical problem The beginning of such a reading is attempted in part 2 Again focusing on the early Heidegger his lecture courses from the 1920s and especially those given in Freiburg between 1919 and 1923—these chapters explore Heidegger s relation to the problematic of transcendental phenomenology and seek a more nuanced understanding of his criticism of Husserl They emphasize in the early Heidegger s... Wittgensteinian terms of “logical space in which individual phenomena (or sentences) had their “place.” Earlier still, neoKantian philosophers spoke of the Geltungsbereich, or “realm of validity,” to distinguish the specific theme of philosophy from that of the empirical sciences of nature or the historical sciences In the tradition that informs the approach taken in the present volume, the space of meaning has... stemming from the collapse of the personal relationship between Husserl and Heidegger For too long the philosophical significance of phenomenology has been hostage to the clannish behavior of phenomenologists such that the only possible conjunction between Husserl and Heidegger appears to be an either/or Which brings me to the second axis: Among students of Husserl and Heidegger, it will likely seem... spite of his best insights into the ontological difference, often seems to imagine being as some sort of primal cosmic “event,” a hidden source or power Seeking the meaning of being,” this Heidegger appears to want philosophy to “eff the ineffable.” There is, second, the Heidegger who is concerned with the reflexive issue of the possibility of philosophy itself, the Heidegger who constantly chastises other... phenomenological approach A look at the differences between Lask, Heidegger, and Husserl on the topic of meaning, then, provides insight into those places where appeal to phenomenology might even now be necessary if the “unboundedness of the conceptual” is to be made perspicuous Second, we thereby gain a platform for a new reading of the Husserl- Heidegger relation itself, one oriented toward their interest in a common... Y Husserl and Heidegger have provided some of the crucial tools in their reflections on the constitution of the space of meaning McDowell, though, is uninterested in constitutional issues and elides their importance by substituting for them a series of metaphors about how “our environment is taken up into the ambit” of spontaneity, or how our “conceptual capacities are drawn into operation” by impressions... conception of meaningless “nature” established by natural science The sort of new naturalism McDowell has in view the basis for an empiricism that would no longer be hostage to modern concepts of the mind as a forum internum or space of representations—has been a staple of the phenomenological tradition, especially in the figures of Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty, since Husserl introduced the notion of. .. project is part of Heidegger s thinking from the 1912 essays to the publication of Being and Time in 1927, then it doesn’t matter whether the transcendental Ansätze in the Freiburg lectures are seen as essential to Heidegger s project or as constraints on the “true” Heidegger One who is not convinced that deconstruction represents the last word on the question of meaning can explore Heidegger s early... toward a common philosophical problem the phenomenon of meaning is not, however, to say that their conceptions of meaning are the same While I hold that Heidegger s philosophy cannot abandon essential tenets of Husserlian phenomenology, I also see a philosophically decisive development “from” Husserl “to” Heidegger precisely in the working out of a richer conception of meaning That development can be characterized, . alt="" HUSSERL, HEIDEGGER, AND THE SPACE OF MEANING Paths toward Transcendental Phenomenology Steven Galt Crowell Northwestern University Press Evanston, Illinois Northwestern University Press Evanston,. Transcendental Phenomenology between Husserl and Heidegger 182 11 Heidegger s Phenomenology and the Question of Being 203 12 Metaphysics, Metontology, and the End of Being and Time 222 13 Gnostic Phenomenology: . Data Crowell, Steven Galt. Husserl, Heidegger, and the space of meaning : paths toward transcendental phenomenology / Steven Galt Crowell. p. cm. — (Northwestern University studies in phenomenology &