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The text frames Husserl as a philosopher driven by the pursuit of certainty, combating relativism, skepticism, psychologism, and historicism. It emphasizes the tension between phenomenology’s promise of rigor and the reader’s potential confusion when distinctions multiply without clear demonstration.","Hussed and the Search for Certitude  \nHusser! and the Search for Certitude  \nLeszek Kolakowski  \nST. AUGUSTINE'S PRESS South Bend, Indiana 2001  \nCopyright © 1975 by Yale University Press  \nAl rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any torm or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of St. Augustine's Press.  \nManufactured in the United States of America.  \n1 2 3 4 5 6 07 06 05 04 03 02 01  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Kolakowski, Leszek.  \nHussed and the search for certitude I Leszek Kolakowski. [p. cm](p. cm).  \nOriginally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1975, in series: The Cassirer lectures.  \nISBN 1 890318-29 9 (alk. paper)  \n1. Hussed, Edmund, 1859 1938. 2. Certainty. I. Title. B3279. H94 K64 2001  \n193-dc21 2001019390  \n00 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements ofthe American National Standardfor Information SciencesPermanence ofPaper for Printed Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.  \nCONTENTS  \nFIRST LECTURE: THE ENDS 1  \nSECOND LECTURE: THE MEANS 31  \nTHIRD LECTURE: THE ACHIEVEMENTS 59  \nNOTE  \nThese are three lectures delivered at Yale University in February 1974. In preparing them I borrowed some fragments from my article written in German under the title \"Das Suchen nach der Gewissheit\" and published in a collection, lnformation lAnd Imagination, by Piper Verlag, Munich, 1973. I borrowed, in addition, a small fragment from my bok written in Polish and published in Polish and German respectively by the Institut Litterairein Paris and by Piper Verlag in Munich (the German title is Die Gegenwirtigkeit r.Us Mythos, 1972). I am very grateful to Mrs. Jane Isay for her great effort in translating this text from a bizarre idiom unknown to scholars, into English.  \nFIRST LECTURE: THE ENDS  \nWhy I think the topic is important Husserl appears here rather as something of a pretext for discussing the question of certainty. This pretext, however, is far from a pretext that could be arbitrary ; and it would be difficult indeed to find a better one. I do not pretend to be an expert on Husser!, as are many people, who analyze every step in his intellectual development, who seize upon even the most minute changes in his formulations, and who try to reconcile everything he said. Neither do I believe, as do some, that if one goes deeply enough into his work, one might be, as it were, initiated into a method of thinking which is absolutely reliable. Without being interested in this kind of inquiry, I do admit that Husserl was indeed a great philosopher because of the extraordinary obstinacy of his endless endeavor: to restore hope in the return to absolutely primordial insight in cognition and to achieve victory over relativism and skepticism. Reading Husserl is often irritating. During his life he piled up a great number of very detailed distinctions and concepts which can easily mislead the reader who is not devoting his life to Husserl studies. Quite often the reader gets the impression that these distinctions are being made on empty material. Quite often phenomenology appears to the reader as an eternal program that is never applied ; a method being endlessly perfected, but rarely shown in actu (and  \n4 FIRST LECTURE  \nwe know that in philosophy, in contrast to technology, to describe a method is never sufficient to enable people to apply it-the method is never clear until it is demonstrated in operation) .  \nBergson was probably right in saying that every philosopher in his life says only one thing, one leading idea or intention that endows all his works with meaning. We can grasp such a basic intuition incessantly present in the whole, gigantic effort of HusserI. Like most philosophers, he was writing the same book throughout his life, always going back to the beginning, correcting himself, struggling with his own presuppositions. 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