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Despite retirement, Husserl gave several notable lectures.

The first, at Paris in 1929, led to Méditations cartésiennes ( Paris 1931 ).

Husserl here reviews the " transcendental ego ", presented earlier in his pivotal Ideen ( 1913 ), in terms of Descartes ' " cogito ".

Yet instead of infinity and the Deity being the ego's gateway to the Other as in Descartes, Husserl's ego itself becomes transcendent.

It remains, however, alone ( unconnected ).

Only the ego's grasp " by analogy " of the Other ( e. g., by conjectural reciprocity ) allows the possibility for an ' objective ' intersubjectivity, and hence for community.

In 1934 José Ortega y Gasset came to visit him.