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Entitled merely “On the Object of Thought,” Chapter 8 of Gurwitsch’s Studies in Phenomenology and Psychology (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1966) has the following note attached to its title: “Paper read at the meeting of the Phenomenological Society, April 27, 1946, at Hunter College, New York City. It was not possible to include here all the discussion. The original version was published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research VII (1947).” What seems the integral script read at the International Phenomenological Society meeting has, however, survived in the Nachlass. It is 596 lines long and 291 lines of it, i.e. practically half, correspond closely to the published version. The following, however, was added to the previously published version:
and I must also forsake surveying the elaboration of concepts analogous to that of the “object of thought” in several contemporary psychological sciences. I have in view the abandonment of the constancy hypothesis in Gestalt theory, the studies of the late Gelb and Prof. Goldstein on the psychical effects of brain injuries, the late Levy-Bruhl’s account of mental functions in primitive societies, the views of the phonological school in linguistics, Max Weber’s verstehende Soziologie and especially his distinction between objektiver and subjektiver Sinn.
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Marvin Farber, The Foundation of Phenomenology: Edmund Husserl and the Quest for a Rigorous Science of Philosophy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1943) and cf. Gunvitsch’s review of this work in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 6 (1946): 439–45. L. E.
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Gutwitsch’s library contained at his death the following works of Lévy-Bruhl: La mentalité primitive (1922), Le surnaturel et la nature dans la mentalité primitive (1931), L’Experérience mystique el les symboles chez les primitifs (1938). He first referred to Lévy-Bruhl in 1932 (cf. Studies in Phenomenology and Psychology, chapter 5) and probably persuaded Husserl to study him. L. E.
Cf. Aron Gurwitsch, The Problem of Existence in Constitutive Phenomenology,’ Journal of Philosophy LVIII (1%1) and reprinted in his Studies in Phenomenology and Psychology,chapter 6. L. E.
Cf. Aron Gurwitsch, “On the Intentionality of Consciousness,’ Philosophical Essays in Memory of Edmund Husserl,ed. Marvin Farber (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1940) and reprinted in his Studies in Phenomenology and Psychology,chapter 7. L. E.
Cf. Alfred Schutz, Collected Papers,Vol. I, ed. Maurice Natanson (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1962) and Aron Gurwitsch, “The Common-Sense World as Social Reality—A Discourse on Alfred Schutz,” Social Research XXIX (1962) and reprinted in Gurwitsch’s Phenomenology and the Theory of Science,chapter 5. L. E.
Cf. Kurt Koffka, Principles of Gestalt Psychology (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1935). L. E.
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Gurwitsch, A. (1992). On the Object of Thought: Methodological and Phenomenological Reflections. In: Drummond, J.J., Embree, L. (eds) The Phenomenology of the Noema. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3425-7_2
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