Universa. Recensioni di filosofia – Anno 3, Vol. 1 (2014) Franziska Thron, Subjekt und Gegenstand. Zur Konstitution der Außenwelt im Anschluss an Husserl und Carnap, Alber, 2013, pp. 208, € 32, ISBN 9783495486085 Simone Aurora, Università degli Studi di Padova This book represents the publication of the doctoral dissertation defended by the author in 2012 at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Harald Seubert. As the title clearly suggests and the author explicitly announces in the Preface, the aim of the volume is to provide a reflection on the relationship between subject and object on the basis of the philosophy of Edmund Husserl and Rudolf Carnap (p.9). Yet the author’s approach is not only comparative (and not at all historical) but also shows a strongly theoretical and original mark. Its purpose, as the author defines it at the end of the brief Introduction (p.21), lies actually in the attempt to yield an independent contribution to the philosophical examination of the matter, namely the relationship between subject and object. The main feature of this examination consists in what the author portrays as a continuation of the lines of thought involved, with respect to this issue, in Husserl’s and Carnap’s works. The links between the two different concepts – and therefore, according to Thron, between the general paradigms of phenomenology and logical positivism – are to be found, on one hand, in the adoption of that peculiar methodological suspension represented by the phenomenological “Epoché”, and, on the other hand, in the Carnapian reception of the Husserlian notion of “stream of experience” (Erlebnisstrom), on the other hand (p.11). Furthermore, the acquisition of such phenomenological concepts in the philosophy of Carnap represents, as the author stresses, a generally omitted topic within the research on Carnap and on logical positivism in general. Accordingly, the volume intends also to contribute to filling this gap. The book is divided into four sections, namely a first section pertaining to Husserl, Zur Gegenstandskonstitution aus phänomenologischer Sicht: Anknüpfungen an Husserl (pp.22- 93), a second section dealing with Carnap, Die Gegenstandswelt als Begriffsystem – Reflexionen auf Carnaps Konstitutionsentwurf des logischen Weltbaus (pp.93-169), a third section comparing the two different concepts, Perspektiven eines Vergleichs: Husserl und Carnap (pp.169-195), and a final