SOURCE: “Kant and Husserl,” in Husserl: An Analysis of His Phenomenology, Northwestern University Press, 1967, pp. 175-201.

In the following study of the differences between Kant and Husserl, Ricoeur endeavors to determine which elements of Husserlian phenomenology can be found in Kantian thought, and how Kant's critique of knowledge and his determination of its limits affect the Husserlian postulation of the existence of “the other.”

The Goal of This Study is to locate the difference between Husserlian phenomenology and Kantian Criticism with some exactness. This task of differentiation follows from a study of the major works devoted to Kant during the past twenty years (to his metaphysics in particular) and from a thorough reading of the published and unpublished works of Husserl. I would like to show that this difference is not situated where the Neo-Kantians who criticized Ideas I think it is (cf. Natorp, Rickert, Kreis, Zocher). Their...