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Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl was born in Margraviate of Moravia, on April 8th,1859. He went on to study mathematics, astronomy, and physics at the University of Leipzig from 1876 to 1878. He was born into Judaism but later converted to Evangelical Lutheranism in in 1886. In 1887, he married Malvine Steinschneider, who was his rock until his death in 1938. -
Logical Investigation
According to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Husserl wrote Logical Investigation in 1901.It was his first published work phenomenology. The first volume contained his thoughts against psychologism. The second volume was written about, expression and meaning, universals, the formal ontology of parts and wholes, syntactical and mereological structure of meaning, nature and structure of intentionality also the interrelation of truth, intuition and cognition. -
Ideas; General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology
In 1913, Husserl began working on Ideas; General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology. Unfortunately, only the first part was finished due to World War I. It was not received well; it was interpreted as a step backwards in Phenomenology. ('Edmund Husserl'.) Stanford According to Husserl pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. -
The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomonology
In The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcedental Phenomenology written in 1935, Husserl states that the phenomological attitude is, "only attainable through a total change of the natural attitude, such that we no longer live, as heretofore, as human beings within natural existence; we must constantly deny ourselves this.” -
Husserl's later years
In April of 1933, anti-Jewish legislation was passed which prevented Husserl from using the library. In 1939, 40,000 pages of Husserl's manuscripts were formed into the Archives Husserl. Later in 1941, Martin Heidegger who was Husserl's pupil and a member of the Nazi Party removed the dedication to Husserl in his most famous writing "Being and Time". ("Edmund Husserl.") -
More resources
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Citations
Landgrebe, Ludwig. "Edmund Husserl." Brittanica.com, www.britannica.com/biography/Edmund-Husserl/Later-years. Beyer, Christian, "Edmund Husserl", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2020/entries/husserl/.
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