意义的历史及其追问或回溯,是胡塞尔在《几何学的起源》中关注的核心问题。它既涉及到意义的起源及其普遍性问题,又涉及到我们是否具有理性的能力,并通过现象学的还原,即回溯或追问的方式来通达源初意义的问题。因而,意义的历史性、理性的能力、现象学回溯方式,以及生活世界,不但构成了后期胡塞尔现象学的重要内容,而且也是解读胡塞尔《几何学的起源》的切入点。 The history of meaning and its follow-up or retrospective are the core issues that Husserl pays close attention to in “The Origin of Geometry”. It refers not only to the origin of the meaning and its universality, but also to whether we have the ability to reason and to reach the original meaning through phenomenological reduction, that is, backtracking or questioning. Therefore, the historic significance, the rational ability, the phenomenological retrospective approach, and the life world not only constitute the important content of Husserl’s phenomenology in the later period, but also serve as an entry point for interpreting Husserl’s “origin of geometry.”