This volume is the first book-length analysis of the problematic concept of the 'horizon' in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology, as well as in phenomenology generally. A recent arrival on the conceptual scene, the horizon still eludes robust definition. The author shows in this authoritative exploration of the topic that Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, placed the notion of the horizon at the centre of philosophical enquiry. He also demonstrates the rightful centrality of the concept of the horizon, all too often viewed as an imprecise metaphor of tangential significance. His systematic analysis deploys both early and late work by Husserl, including recently published manuscripts.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.- ABBREVIATIONS.- CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION.- PART I: THE EMERGENCE OF THE HORIZON.- CHAPTER II: INDEXICALITY AS A PHENOMENOLOGICAL PROBLEM.- CHAPTER III: JAMES AND HUSSERL: THE HORIZON AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL AND A PHILOSOPHICAL THEME.- CHAPTER IV: THE WORLD-HORIZON IN IDEAS I.- CHAPTER V: THE STRUCTURES OF HORIZON-CONSCIOUSNESS IN IDEAS I.- PART II: THE HORIZONS OF TRANSCENDENTAL SUBJECTIVITY.- CHAPTER VI: THE STATIC AND GENETIC DETERMINATIONS OF THE HORIZON.- CHAPTER VII: THE REDUCTION AS THE DISCLOSURE OF THE HORIZONS OF TRANSCENDENTAL SUBJECTIVITY.- CHAPTER VIII: THE HORIZON AND THE ORIGINS OF SENSE-FORMATION.- CHAPTER IX: HUSSERL'S NOTION OF THE PRIMAL EGO IN LIGHT OF THE HERMENEUTICAL CRITIQUE.- PART III: THE WORLD-HORIZON AS THE WHEREFROM, WHEREIN,AND THE WHERETO OF EXPERIENCE.- CHAPTER X: THE WORLD-HORIZON AS THE WHEREFROM OF EXPERIENCE.- CHAPTER XI: THE WORLD-HORIZON AS THE WHEREIN OF EXPERIENCE.- CHAPTER XII: THE WORLD-HORIZON AS THE WHERETO OF EXPERIENCE.- CHAPTER XIII: CONCLUSION¿.