The World of Appreciation as Lebenswelt: The Value of Pre-scientific Experience in the Philosophy of Josiah Royce and Edmund Husserl

Abstract

siNCe its origiNs iN herbert spiegelberg’s 1960 Phenomenological Movement: A Historical Introduction, the question of the rapport between Royce and Husserl has been generally framed according to a perspective that is at once conceptual and methodological. More specifically, Spiegelberg’s attempt has been that of finding an equilibrium among this twofold perspective and Royce’s theory of meaning and social self: