Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology is a book by the philosopher
Edmund Husserl, based on four lectures he gave at the
Sorbonne, in the Amphithéatre Descartes on February 23 and 25, 1929. Over the next two years, he and his assistant
Eugen Fink expanded and elaborated on the text of these lectures. These expanded lectures were first published in a 1931 French translation by Gabrielle Peiffer and
Emmanuel Levinas, under the supervision of Husserl's former student
Alexandre Koyré. They were published in German, along with the original
Pariser Vortrage, in 1950, and again in an English translation by Dorion Cairns in 1960, based on a typescript of the text (Typescript C) which Husserl had designated for Cairns in 1933.