REVIEW ESSAY 89 Review essay Two themes of Husserl’s Phenomenology Revisited: Responsibility and Intersubjectivity Friederike Kuster: Wege der Verantwortung ( Paths of Responsibility), Husserls Phänomenologie als Gang durch die Faktizität. Dordrecht/Boston/ London 1996 (Phaenomenologica 138). Dan Zahvi: Husserl und die transzendentale Intersubjektivität (Husserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity), Eine Antwort auf die sprachpragmatische Kritik. Dordrecht/Boston/London 1996 (Phaenomenologica 135). The two new books on Husserl to be discussed have one trait in common: Both devote themselves to one important theme of Husserl’s philosophy and pursue this topic throughout the scope of his thought – be it in the sense of the historical development of Husserl’s thought or in systematically tracing through the main themes of the Husserlian phenomenological enterprise. These re- spective themes can be considered as highly relevant and are viewed as such by Husserl himself – as is the case of the ever-present problems of respon- sibility (Kuster) and intersubjectivity (Zahavi). 1 However, the main merit of these investigations is, among others, also to show how these topics have their influence or even their ground in rather remote parts of the Husserlian philosophical universe. The investigations to be presented here, furthermore, are more or less modified versions of dissertations, submitted at the universi- ties of Munich (Kuster) and Leuven (Zahavi). It can be said from the outset that both studies represent an important contribution to Husserl research both in that they analyze Husserl’s thought in the light of current research and previously published material (including, as is expected today in any worthwhile publication on Husserl, unpublished texts), as well as giving an interesting and original interpretative twist to Husserl’s philosophical endeavor as a whole. Because of this it is rather difficult to give a synoptic reading of these studies. An adequate and just account of each requires a separate treatment. Thus, in the following, attention shall be de- voted to one book at a time in order, in a brief, final evaluation, to give a systematic overview on the main lines of thought and perspectives that are presented in this “joint endeavor.” Continental Philosophy Review 32: 89–99, 1999. © 1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.