Phenomenological reduction and existence

This book deals with Phenomenological reduction and existence in Edmund Husserl's Cartesian Meditations. First we consider René Descartes as a precursor of Husserlian phenomenology. Starting with the doubt developed in his Méditations métaphysiques he paved the way for transcendental philosophy. Next we describe Edmund Husserl's phenomenological position for whom phenomenological reduction is the act by which phenomenology achieves its transcendental dimension since the residue of this operation is the transcendental ego having bracketed the natural thesis of the world. Moreover we have highlighted Edmund Husserl's originality in that he posed the problem of intersubjectivity so that the transcendental phenomenology he develops is an experience of both the ego and the alter-ego. Phenomenology is after all communication with the world hence the notion of intersubjectivity. It is concerned with individual and collective existence.