Edmund Husserl Summary

Husserl, Edmund HUSSERL, EDMUND (1859–1938), German philosopher, founder and central figure in the twentieth-century philosophical movement or approach known as phenomenology. Born in Prossnitz... Read more

Husserl, Edmund(1859–1938) Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), the founding figure of the philosophical movement known as phenomenology, was born in Prossnitz in Mähren, then part of the ... Read more

The German philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) is considered the father of phenomenology, one of the most important trends in 20th-century philosophy.Edmund Husserl was born on April 8, 1859, in Pr... Read more

Edmund Husserl is a philosopher whose work has been involved in the genesis of several philosophical movements--phenomenology, existentialism, and deconstructionism are among the most notable. In fact... Read more

In the following lecture, originally delivered in 1959, Gurwitsch distinguishes Husserl's conception of consciousness from earlier formulations by Locke, Hume, Leibnitz, and Kant. A comparat... Read more

In the following essay, Spiegelberg discusses the relationship between phenomenology and existentialism. Philosophers do not seem to have had more success than other mortals in reaching centenarian... Read more

In the following study of the differences between Kant and Husserl, Ricoeur endeavors to determine which elements of Husserlian phenomenology can be found in Kantian thought, and how Kant's cri... Read more

In the following essay, Leiss discusses the relevance of Husserl's thought to the problem of how we understand science, the natural world, and the relation of the two, especially with regard to... Read more

In this comparison of Marxism and phenomenology, originally presented as a lecture in 1972, Wartofsky shows the errors of phenomenology from the Marxist point of view. The beginning of phenomenolog... Read more

In the following essay, Cairns challenges Hook's critique of Husserl. In the course of a recent article called “A Personal Impression of Contemporary German Philosophy” (this J... Read more

In the following essay, Golomb explains the distinctions Husserl makes between psychology and psychologism, and between positivistic and phenomenological psychology, and analyzes the significance of t... Read more

In the following excerpt, Farber illustrates the aim of phenomenology and the method Husserl uses in his phenomenological analysis of time-consciousness. Undoubtedly the most prominent philosophica... Read more

In the following essay, McGill describes Husserl's phenomenological mapping of time in contrast to the models provided by Henri Bergson, J. M. E. McTaggart, and Bertrand Russell. Bergson�... Read more

In the following excerpt, Farber traces the precursors to and outlines the development of Husserl's philosophy. Nothing in recent philosophy approaches the supreme confidence with which Huss... Read more

In the following essay, Spiegelberg compares the phenomenological philosophies of Husserl and Charles Sanders Peirce, and explores the extent of each philosopher's awareness of and influence up... Read more