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Cosmopolitan Husserl: From Transcendental Phenomenology to the Ethics of Renewal book cover

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Cosmopolitan Husserl From Transcendental Phenomenology to the Ethics of Renewal

Edited By Curtis Hutt, Halla Kim Copyright 2026
318 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

318 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume reflects on the themes and topics presented in Edmund Husserl’s articles published in the popular Japanese magazine Kaizō in 1923. It addresses the cosmopolitan nature of Husserl’s work as well as the enduring appeal of Husserl’s cultural phenomenology for today’s globalized age. The notions of crisis and renewal are clearly central to the thought of Husserl in his outreach to... Read more

Editors’ Introduction Curtis Hutt and Halla Kim

Part 1: Foundations in Cultural Phenomenology
1. “The Unity of a Spiritual Life”: Husserl on Cultural Phenomenology Dermot Moran
2. One World: Husserl, Japan, and the Ethics of Renewal Curtis Hutt
3. Husserl and Scheler on the Possibility of a Cultural Renewal Zachary Davis
4. On the Way to Phenomenology from Anthropology: Some Remarks on the Relation Between Husserl’s Ethical Thought and Anthropology Andrew Barrette
5. Husserl’s Intercultural Phenomenology: Resituating Europe, Reason, and the Lifeworld Eric S. Nelson

Part 2: Husserl and Global Phenomenology
6. Husserl and Cohen on the Other Halla Kim
7. Husserl, Global Coloniality, and the World Thomas Meagher
8. Creolizing Theory as Rigorous Science Jane Anna Gordon
9. Critical Phenomenology and the Limits of Critical Buddhism: Edmund Husserl’s Self-Reflective Strategies Mary Jeanne Larrabee
10. To Be or To Have the Body: Husserl's Intersubjectivity and Itda in Korean Hye Young Kim
11. The Presence of the Fourth: A Phenomenology of the Living World Gereon Kopf

Part 3: The Making of the Kaizō Articles
12. The Reception of Husserl’s Kaizō Contributions in the Development of the Japanese Phenomenology Motoki Fujii and Halla Kim

Part 4: Appendix: Kaizō (1923)—“Renewal: Problem and Method”
The Original Kaizō Publication
The Original Kaizō German Publication
Modernized Japanese Text: Motoki Fujii and Nozomi Suzuki
Original German Text
“Renewal: Problem and Method.” A New Translation Gwyneth Cliver

Biography

Curtis Hutt is Professor of Religious Studies and Founding Executive Director of the Goldstein Center for Human Rights (2017‑2023) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has authored and co‑edited multiple books including John Dewey on the Ethics of Historical Belief (2013) and Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics (2018).

Halla Kim, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Sogang University in Seoul, Korea. His books include Kant and the Foundations of Morality (2015) and he also published three anthologies, Transcendental Inquiry: Its Origin, Method, and Critiques (2016), among others.

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