Andrew G. answered • 08/16/19
College Philosophy/Social Science, and High School English Tutor
You'll have to forgive me, but I know much of Husserl's phenomenology from how Heidegger approaches his existential phenomenology. As a result, I can try to explain Husserl's phenomenology from the lens of Heidegger by denoting how Heidegger exploits the former's method.
Husserl's phenomenology is not concerned with Heidegger's question of being in the way that the latter would be, but Husserl is nonetheless interested in what way or how "I" exists in addition to the content that is elucidated by consciousness. Unlike Descartes, who only denoted the question of "I" by assuming it a priori in order for any thought content to exist, Husserl was not interested in assuming a definitive consciousness, nor presumptuous content laden with meaning. Husserl would similarly assume, like Descartes, that we are consciously in the world, but wished to start merely from this fact to explore, from our experiences, how consciousness naturally interacted with the world, rather than just assuming facts about it built from an a priori cogito.
