Ludwig Landgrebe and the Significance of Marginal Consciousness

Abstract

This chapter discusses Landgrebe’s work as Husserl’s assistant particularly on Ideen II, and then considers the body as nexus of nature and spirit on one level and the regions of material nature and human world respectively on a macrocosmic level. It traces the development of Husserl’s thought that Landgrebe would witness during his time in Freiburg and the course this will take in his career, and closes with a description of Aron Gurwitsch’s phenomenological analysis of marginal consciousness and its role in perception in general.