Meaning and Language: Phenomenological Perspectives

The work aims at presenting new in-depth research on core topics of Husserl s thinking related to language (e.g., meaning, sign, ideality) supplemented with a variety of original phenomenological reflections on pre-linguistic experience, concept-formation and the limitations of (verbal) expression. In doing so, it supplies us the first anthology that focuses on Husserl s thinking in relation to language.
Most of the contributions to this volume are based on research originally presented at the Husserl Arbeitstage , which took place at the Husserl-Archives Leuven in November 2006. In addition, two other articles have been added in order to supplement the themes of the presentations. This book is the first anthology to provide a wide-ranging picture of how phenomenology relates to language. It contains both in-depth studies on new aspects of language in Husserl s thought as well as original phenomenological research that explores the respective potentials and limits of linguistic expression and conceptualization.
The fourteen texts gathered here may have a single aim, but their content varies depending on the respective author s intention: either to discuss problems of language within the Husserlian framework, to address philosophical issues of language proceeding from a phenomenological viewpoint, or to provide a reflection on phenomenology s relation to language. Thus, rather than being organized by topic, the collection has been arranged into three parts, according to the respective authors philosophical approaches.