Abstract

This article looks at the method of Rückfrage in the work of Husserl. It offers an overview of the development of genetic phenomenology and a reconstruction of the occurrences of the term in the texts of volume XLII of the Husserliana entitled Grenzprobleme der Phänomenologie. In these texts, the Rückfrage is presented as a specific question with a twofold meaning: on the one hand, a regressive inquiry that works backwards from a naïve content to the original level of constitution; on the other hand, Rückfrage signifies a second-degree question, characterised by the aspect of repetition.