Cosmopolitan Husserl: From Transcendental Phenomenology to the Ethics of Renewal

This volume reflects on the themes and topics presented in Edmund Husserl’s articles published in the popular Japanese magazine Kaizōin 1923. It addresses the cosmopolitan nature of Husserl’s work as well as the enduring appeal of Husserl’s cultural phenomenology for today’s globalized age.

The notions of crisis and renewal are clearly central to the thought of Husserl in his outreach to Japanese readers in his Kaizō articles. For Husserl, something critical from the European past had to be ...