As is made plain in the critical apparatus and editorial matter appended to the original German publication of Hussed's Ideas II, I this is a text with a history. It underwent revision after revision, spanning almost 20 years in one of the most fertile periods of the philosopher's life. The book owes its form to the work of many hands, and its unity is one that has been imposed on it. Yet there is nothing here that cannot be traced back to Hussed himself. Indeed, the final" clean copy" for publication, prepared by an assistant, was completely reviewed by the master three times and emended by him in detail on each occasion. Nevertheless, in the end the work was in fact not submitted for publication, and after Hussed's pen last touched the manuscript in 1928 it was set aside until posthumously edited and published by the Hussed-Archives in 1952. The story of the composition of Ideas II begins with the "pencil manuscript" of 1912. This is the ultimate textual source for both Ideas II and Ideas III. 2 It has been preserved as a folio of 84 sheets in very dense shorthand of the Gabelsberger system, written mostly with a pencil. It was composed by Hussed "in one stroke" immediately after the completion of I Edmund Husser!: Ideen zu einer reinen Phiinomenologie und phiinomenologischen Philosophie. Zweites Buch: Phiinomenologische Untersuchungen zur Konstitution. Edited by Marly Biemel. The Hague: Martinus NijhofT, 1952 (Husserliana IV).

Inhalt
Section One The Constitution of Material Nature.- one: The Idea of Nature in General.- Two: The Ontic Sense-Strata of the Thing of Intuition as Such.- Three: The Aestheta in Their Relation to the Aesthetic Body.- Section Two The Constitution of Animal Nature.- One: The Pure Ego.- Two: Psychic Reality.- Three: The Constitution of Psychic Reality Through the Body.- Four: The Constitution of Psychic Reality in Empathy.- Section Three The Constitution of the Spiritual World.- One: Opposition Between the Naturalistic and Personalistic Worlds.- Two: Motivation as the Fundamental Law of the Spiritual World.- Three: The Onto logical Priority of the Spiritual World over the Naturalistic.- Supplements.- Epilogue.