Abstract

There are some relatively good reasons not pay special attention to the concept of naivety in the context of husserlian phenomenology. The husserlian use of this concept may be characterized rather as an auxiliary than as a technical one, for it doesn’t seem to play any decisive role when it comes to phenomenological analysis as such. The concept in question gains nevertheless in argumentative importance when it comes to the husserlian evaluation of philosophical tradition as well as of some competing philosophical schools. An analysis of the concept of naivety may thus allow us to approach an hermeneutical dimension of Husserl’s phenomenology. The first part of the following article offers a tentative reconstruction of Husserl’s usage of the concept in question whereas the second one discusses some hermeneutical difficulties related to its systematic use.