Edmund Husserl was responsible for setting in motion one of the two main philosophical currents which swept Europe in the first half of this century. In this book the author tries to explain how Husserl developed his phenomenology from his early 'psychologistic' analysis of number (which brought him into conflict with Frege) to the transcendental phenomenological analysis of his 'mature period'. The author has also discussed briefly the views of some other prominent phenomenologists. The phenomenological method has been applied in (...) different contexts and with different results and the author has tried to give an illustration of this and also to point out some basic limitations of the phenomenological approach. (shrink)