Horst Ruthrof is Emeritus Professor of English and Philosophy at Murdoch University, Western Australia, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations Preface1. Introduction: Language and Intersubjective IntentionalityPart I Two Husserlian Points of Departure2. Husserl’s Philosophy of Language and Its Revisions3. Language as Eidetic Reduction: The Fuzzy Eidos Part II Intersubjective Intentionality in Language4. Introjective Reciprocity: Meaning as Communal, Cognitive Event 5. From Husserl’s Tone to Implicit Deixis 6. From Meaning Sufficiency to Communal Control 7. A Phenomenological Redefinition of Linguistic MeaningPart III Implications for the Theorization of Language8. Why Language Is Not Simply a “Symbolic” System9. Displacement, Mental Time Travel, and Protosyntax10. Conclusion: The Social Mode of Being of LanguageReferencesIndex

Against the dominant focus on logical relations in Husserl’s writings on language, one of the world’s leading phenomenological philosophers here argues for a very different account grounded in bodily orientation and social interaction. This is a rigorous and innovative contribution to Husserl studies and the philosophy of language.

Horst Ruthrof is Emeritus Professor of English and Philosophy at Murdoch University, Western Australia, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations Preface1. Introduction: Language and Intersubjective IntentionalityPart I Two Husserlian Points of Departure2. Husserl’s Philosophy of Language and Its Revisions3. Language as Eidetic Reduction: The Fuzzy Eidos Part II Intersubjective Intentionality in Language4. Introjective Reciprocity: Meaning as Communal, Cognitive Event 5. From Husserl’s Tone to Implicit Deixis 6. From Meaning Sufficiency to Communal Control 7. A Phenomenological Redefinition of Linguistic MeaningPart III Implications for the Theorization of Language8. Why Language Is Not Simply a “Symbolic” System9. Displacement, Mental Time Travel, and Protosyntax10. Conclusion: The Social Mode of Being of LanguageReferencesIndex

Against the dominant focus on logical relations in Husserl’s writings on language, one of the world’s leading phenomenological philosophers here argues for a very different account grounded in bodily orientation and social interaction. This is a rigorous and innovative contribution to Husserl studies and the philosophy of language.

Horst Ruthrof is Emeritus Professor of English and Philosophy at Murdoch University, Western Australia, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations Preface1. Introduction: Language and Intersubjective IntentionalityPart I Two Husserlian Points of Departure2. Husserl’s Philosophy of Language and Its Revisions3. Language as Eidetic Reduction: The Fuzzy Eidos Part II Intersubjective Intentionality in Language4. Introjective Reciprocity: Meaning as Communal, Cognitive Event 5. From Husserl’s Tone to Implicit Deixis 6. From Meaning Sufficiency to Communal Control 7. A Phenomenological Redefinition of Linguistic MeaningPart III Implications for the Theorization of Language8. Why Language Is Not Simply a “Symbolic” System9. Displacement, Mental Time Travel, and Protosyntax10. Conclusion: The Social Mode of Being of LanguageReferencesIndex

Against the dominant focus on logical relations in Husserl’s writings on language, one of the world’s leading phenomenological philosophers here argues for a very different account grounded in bodily orientation and social interaction. This is a rigorous and innovative contribution to Husserl studies and the philosophy of language.