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This chapter investigates Jacob Klein's interpretation of the problem of history in Husserl's phenomenology. For Klein, therefore, Husserl's phenomenology is internally motivated to widen the scope of its inquiry into the origins of the intelligibility of the significance of intentional objects beyond the evidence that shows up in terms of their temporal genesis. Klein's discussion in Phenomenology and the History of Science does not follow Husserl's pattern in his last works of providing an intentional-historical analysis of the origin of mathematical physics, an analysis that for Klein, although not based upon actual historical research, is on the whole an amazing piece of historical empathy. This account of the emergence of the problem of actual history in Husserl's phenomenology also tells against the attempt to trace the meaning of history at issue here to the historicity of the transcendental ego's universal genesis.

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