Husserl's Position in the School of Brentano

"Phenomenology, according to Husserl, is meant to be philosophy as rigorous science. It was Franz Brentano who inspired him to pursue the ideal of scientific philosophy. Though Husserl began his philosophical career as an orthodox disciple of Brentano, he eventually began to have doubts about his orientation. The Logische Untersuchungen is the result of such doubts. Especially after the publication of that work, he became increasingly convinced that, in the interest of scientific philosophy, he had to go in a direction which diverged from Brentano and other members of this school ("Brentanists") who believed in the same ideal. The crucial turning point in the development of these relations is to be found in the essay which Husserl wrote in 1894 (particularly in response to Twardowski) under this study will be of interest to historians of philosophy and phenomenology in particular, but also to anyone concerned with the ideal of scientific philosophy."--Jacket.