Storia, vita e fenomenologia trascendentale nei recenti materiali husserliani

This paper explores some recently published materials from Husserl’s Nachlass. The author argues that they offer resources for a better understanding of Husserl’s view of history. In particular, they prove that Husserl’s reflections on history and the historical world are intended to be radical responses to the schools of Neo-Kantianism and Lebensphilosophie and are only fully intelligible in this context. The bulk of Husserl’s analysis revolves around the notion of a constituting life at the origin of both nature and culture. In this respect, he sides with philosophers like Simmel and Dilthey. However, transcendental life is for Husserl accessible with the aid of the phenomenological reduction and thus suitable for scientific investigation. The upshot of this analysis is the discovery of a complex but non-chaotic interrelation of natural life, transcendental life and history. These are not separate spheres of reality but rather facets of one and the same dynamic of transcendental constitution.