Husserl’s Ideas II circulated in manuscript before its 1952 publication.

Evidence

Husserl develops his phenomenological account of nature in the second volume of Ideas and in the late work Th e Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. He worked on the former during 1912–28 with his two assistants, Edith Stein and Ludwig Landgrebe, but he never published the text. Ideas II was published posthumously in 1952, and it was known by Husserl’s contemporaries, Merleau-Ponty among others, in manuscript form. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 399

Categorization

• XREF: Explains how Merleau-Ponty could draw on Ideas II (and pass it to Beauvoir) decades before it appeared in print — relevant to the influence chain this book traces. — connects to: Husserl’s unpublished manuscripts held his most important work — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 434; Merleau-Ponty began his phenomenology of perception from Husserl’s unpublished manuscripts — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 425
• SHARE: Narrow, specific fact about Edith Stein and Ludwig Landgrebe as Husserl’s manuscript assistants — worth sending to any phenomenology scholar.

Broader Connections

• Merleau-Ponty began his phenomenology of perception from Husserl’s unpublished manuscripts #corroborates (0.82) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 425