62 Facts About Edmund Husserl

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Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was an Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician who established the school of phenomenology.

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Edmund Husserl's thought profoundly influenced 20th-century philosophy, and he remains a notable figure in contemporary philosophy and beyond.

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Edmund Husserl studied mathematics, taught by Karl Weierstrass and Leo Konigsberger, and philosophy taught by Franz Brentano and Carl Stumpf.

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Edmund Husserl taught philosophy as a Privatdozent at Halle from 1887, then as professor, first at Gottingen from 1901, then at Freiburg from 1916 until he retired in 1928, after which he remained highly productive.

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In 1933, under racial laws of the Nazi Party, Edmund Husserl was expelled from the library of the University of Freiburg due to his Jewish family background and months later resigned from the Deutsche Akademie.

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Edmund Husserl was born into a Jewish family, the second of four children.

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Edmund Husserl's childhood was spent in Prostejov, where he attended the secular primary school.

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At the University of Leipzig from 1876 to 1878, Edmund Husserl studied mathematics, physics, and astronomy.

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Evidently as a result of his becoming familiar with the New Testament during his twenties, Edmund Husserl asked to be baptized into the Lutheran Church in 1886.

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Yet already Edmund Husserl had felt the desire to pursue philosophy.

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Edmund Husserl became free to return to Vienna where, after serving a short military duty, he devoted his attention to philosophy.

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In 1887 Edmund Husserl married Malvine Steinschneider, a union that would last over fifty years.

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Edmund Husserl started in 1887 as a Privatdozent at the University of Halle.

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In October 1914 both his sons were sent to fight on the Western Front of World War I, and the following year one of them, Wolfgang Edmund Husserl, was badly injured.

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The next year his other son Gerhart Edmund Husserl was wounded in the war but survived.

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Edmund Husserl had transferred in 1916 to the University of Freiburg where he continued bringing his work in philosophy to fruition, now as a full professor.

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Edmund Husserl gave four lectures on Phenomenological method at University College, London in 1922.

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Later Edmund Husserl lectured at Prague in 1935 and Vienna in 1936, which resulted in a very differently styled work that, while innovative, is no less problematic: Die Krisis.

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Edmund Husserl describes here the cultural crisis gripping Europe, then approaches a philosophy of history, discussing Galileo, Descartes, several British philosophers, and Kant.

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The apolitical Edmund Husserl before had specifically avoided such historical discussions, pointedly preferring to go directly to an investigation of consciousness.

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Edmund Husserl died in Freiburg on 27 April 1938, having just turned 79.

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Edmund Husserl was rumoured to have been denied the use of the library at Freiburg as a result of the anti-Jewish legislation of April 1933.

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However, among other disabilities Edmund Husserl was unable to publish his works in Nazi Germany [see above footnote to Die Krisis ].

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Such observations of Heidegger, along with a critique of Max Scheler, were put into a lecture Edmund Husserl gave to various Kant Societies in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Halle during 1931 entitled Phanomenologie und Anthropologie.

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On 4 May 1933, Professor Edmund Husserl addressed the recent regime change in Germany and its consequences:.

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Edmund Husserl analyzed the psychological process needed to obtain the concept of number and then built up a theory on this analysis.

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Edmund Husserl used methods and concepts taken from his teachers.

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The major dividing line in Edmund Husserl's thought is the turn to transcendental idealism.

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Edmund Husserl tries new methods of bringing his readers to understand the importance of phenomenology to scientific inquiry and what it means to "bracket" the natural attitude.

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Edmund Husserl's thought is revolutionary in several ways, most notably in the distinction between "natural" and "phenomenological" modes of understanding.

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Phenomenological understanding strives to be rigorously "presuppositionless" by means of what Edmund Husserl calls "phenomenological reduction".

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From Logical Investigations to Experience and Judgment, Edmund Husserl expressed clearly the difference between meaning and object.

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Edmund Husserl identifies a series of "formal words" which are necessary to form sentences and have no sensible correlates.

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Every sentence must contain formal words to designate what Edmund Husserl calls "formal categories".

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Edmund Husserl believed that truth-in-itself has as ontological correlate being-in-itself, just as meaning categories have formal-ontological categories as correlates.

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Edmund Husserl criticized the logicians of his day for not focusing on the relation between subjective processes that give us objective knowledge of pure logic.

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Edmund Husserl stated that logic has three strata, each further away from consciousness and psychology than those that precede it.

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Jacob Klein was one student of Edmund Husserl who pursued this line of inquiry, seeking to "desedimentize" mathematics and the mathematical sciences.

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Later, in the first volume of his Logical Investigations, the Prolegomena of Pure Logic, Edmund Husserl, while attacking the psychologistic point of view in logic and mathematics, appears to reject much of his early work, although the forms of psychologism analysed and refuted in the Prolegomena did not apply directly to his Philosophy of Arithmetic.

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The review falsely accuses Edmund Husserl of subjectivizing everything, so that no objectivity is possible, and falsely attributes to him a notion of abstraction whereby objects disappear until we are left with numbers as mere ghosts.

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Furthermore, various sources indicate that Edmund Husserl changed his mind about psychologism as early as 1890, a year before he published the Philosophy of Arithmetic.

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Edmund Husserl attributed this change of mind to his reading of Leibniz, Bolzano, Lotze, and David Hume.

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Edmund Husserl makes no mention of Frege as a decisive factor in this change.

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Hence Frege recognized, as early as 1891, that Edmund Husserl distinguished between sense and reference.

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Consequently, Frege and Edmund Husserl independently elaborated a theory of sense and reference before 1891.

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For Edmund Husserl this is not the case: mathematics is the ontological correlate of logic, and while both fields are related, neither one is strictly reducible to the other.

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Edmund Husserl pointed out that the failure of anti-psychologists to defeat psychologism was a result of being unable to distinguish between the foundational, theoretical side of logic, and the applied, practical side.

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Edmund Husserl responds by saying that truth itself, as well as logical laws, always remain valid regardless of psychological "evidence" that they are true.

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David Carr commented on Edmund Husserl's following in his 1970 dissertation at Yale: "It is well known that Edmund Husserl was always disappointed at the tendency of his students to go their own way, to embark upon fundamental revisions of phenomenology rather than engage in the communal task" as originally intended by the radical new science.

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Edmund Husserl became increasingly critical of Heidegger's work, especially in 1929, and included pointed criticism of Heidegger in lectures he gave during 1931.

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Edmund Husserl was above all the mediator between Husserl and the students, for he understood extremely well how to deal with other persons, whereas Husserl was pretty much helpless in this respect.

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Edmund Husserl later adapted her phenomenology to the modern school of modern Thomism.

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Edmund Husserl wrote the Sixth Cartesian Meditation which Husserl said was the truest expression and continuation of his own work.

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Scheler, who was at Gottingen when Edmund Husserl taught there, was one of the original few editors of the journal Jahrbuch fur Philosophie und Phanomenologische Forschung.

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Edmund Husserl's philosophy is said to include an innovative use of the method.

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Edmund Husserl was at first impressed with Heidegger and began a book on him, but broke off the project when Heidegger became involved with the Nazis.

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Edmund Husserl was impressed by this work and asked Schutz to be his assistant.

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Edmund Husserl appreciated Husserl, Scheler, and Heidegger.

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Edmund Husserl expressed very strong appreciation for Husserl's work, especially with regard to "bracketing" or "epoche".

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Edmund Husserl was introduced to Husserl's work through his wife, Helene Joseph, herself a student of Husserl at Gottingen.

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Edmund Husserl credited phenomenology for having 'liberated him' from a narrow neo-Kantian thought.

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Wilfrid Sellars, an influential figure in the so-called "Pittsburgh School" had been a student of Marvin Farber, a pupil of Edmund Husserl, and was influenced by phenomenology through him:.