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Article: Synthesis and Backward Reference in Husserl's Logical Investigations.(Review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- December 1, 1998
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LAMPERT, Jay. Synthesis and Backward Reference in Husserl's Logical Investigations. Phaenomenologica, vol. 131. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995. x + 218 pp. Cloth, $150.00--This book concerns the unity of the conscious life. How do the elements of that life--its parts and their properties and relations--come together to form our experience of our world and our self? This is, of course, an extremely important question, and one which, since Hume, philosophers have frequently taken up, but with little satisfactory result.
Lampert lays out the problem in Husserlian terms on pages 2-3. His solution (also in Husserlian terms) is that the "meaning content" of a given ...