Letter from Edmund Husserl written 10.02.1932

Author Edmund Husserl

Category foreign researchers, incoming correspondence

Archive The Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences

Date of creation 10.02.1932

Reference code in archive Biblioteka PAU

Resource type letter

Subject matter personal issues, publication issues

Field phenomenology, philosophy

Tags #academic work, #Cartesian Meditations, #edition, #Edmund Husserl, #Eugene Fink, #Felix Kaufmann, #Investigation of Time, #phenomenology, #transcendentalism, #Yearbook

Freiburg, 10.II.1932

Dear Friend,

About seven weeks have passed since I received your kind Christmas letter – It seemed like one day of me working incessantly through some disturbances and mood swings. I have not answered your questions yet! Your manuscript, which was insufficiently protected by the envelope, arrived completely tattered. I am certainly in a tight spot regarding the Yearbook – I am not even sure when printing can begin as I remained focused on my large system diagram and delegated the preliminary drafting and editing of the Med[itations] to Dr. Fink, and we only discussed the most pressing general issues. When his draft is finished, I still have to complete my personal draft and elaboration, which will take months.64 Moreover, it seems that the new Med[itations] will be much larger. How will this affect the scope of the Yearbook: 1.) the Investi[gation] of Time completed years ago; 2.) Fink’s second part (12-15 pages alone); 3.) Felix Kaufmann’s math[ematical] ph[enomenological] work…?! I am a terrible editor. In any case, I have to and am eager to read your work: whether you can satisfy the central purpose of my transcendentalism.65 Have you fully recovered? Many heartfelt greetings and best wishes,

E. Husserl