The phenomenological reduction in the philosophy of Edmund Husserl

The thesis put forth in the paper is that the phenomenological reduction is the clue to the method of the philosophy of Edmund Husserl. A conscious attempt is made to elucidate the meaning of the reduction within the context of the historical development of Husserl's thought. It is claimed that Husserl presents his mature understanding of the reduction in The Crisis of European Sciences.;Chapter III is an examination of Husserl's discovery of the Absolute Being of pure consciousness and its relation to the world. In addition, an effort is undertaken to explicate Husserl's assertion that phenomenology is an a priori eidetic science of pure consciousness.;Chapter IV discusses Husserl's development of the concept of the ego and his subsequent attempt to establish phenomenology as an egological science.;Chapter V is an inquiry into the significance of the concept of the life-world and its relation to the transcendental ego and the transcendental reduction.;Chapter II investigates Husserl's formulation of the problem of knowledge and his solution to this problem.;The paper concludes with a brief defence of the view that the reduction is essential to Husserlian phenomenology.