The Totalizing Act: Key to Husserl's Early Philosophy

Introduction: The Origins of Husserl's Totalizing Act.- I. The Totalizing Act: Key to Husserl's Early Philosophy.- The Totalizing Act.- The Totalizing Act as Totality.- II. The Concept of the Totalizing Act as Collective Connection: Progenitor of Number.- The Auto-Abstraction of the Concept of Collective Connection.- Number Concepts: Progeny of the Totalizing Act.- The "Attachment" of Number Concepts: Index of the Totalizing Act.- The Preeminence of the Totalizing Act: Refutation of a Prevalent Interpretation.- III. Symbolizing: Prosthesis of the Totalizing Act.- The Hierarchic Complication of Totalizing Acts.- The Anatomy of Abstracta.- The Self-Extension of the Totalizing Act by Proxy.- IV. The Symbolic Totalization of Sensible Multitudes.- The Sensible Individual as Modified Multitude.- The Symbolic Totalization of the Sensible Multitude.- V. The Intuitive Totalization of the Individual Sense Object.- The Sensible Group: Sufficient Context for Analyzing Intuition of Individuals.- The Problem: Non-Convertibility of Simultaneous and Successive Totalizing.- The Resolution: Successive and Simultaneous Totalizing as Continuous.- The Mutual Implication of Intuiting and Representing in the Intuition of the Sensible Thing.- VI. The Totalizing Act as Mediator of the Ideal and Real.- Hypothesis: The Internal Motivation for the Great Inversion.- Confirmation: The Prolegomena of 1900.- VII. The Ensoulment of Sensation: Triumph of the Totalizing Psyche.- The Immanent Object as Empiricistic Fetish.- The Psychical Production of the Transcendent Object.- The Dilemma: The Uncertainty of the Transcendent and the Imperceptibility of the Immanent.- The Great Reversal: The Causal World as Interpretation.- Afterword: A Hypothetical Answer for Alfred Schutz.- Appendices.- Selected Bibliography.