Edmund Husserl

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl, (April 8, 1859 - April 26, 1938), philosopher, was born into a Jewish family in Prostějov (Prossnitz), Moravia, Czech Republic (then part of the Austrian Empire). He is known as the "father" of phenomenology. He was a pupil of Franz Brentano and Carl Stumpf. Among others, he would influence Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. (Hermann Weyl's interest in intuitionistic logic and impredicativity, for example, seems to have been as a result of contact with Husserl.) In 1887 he converted to Christianity and joined the Lutheran Church. He taught philosophy at Halle as a tutor (Privatdozent) from 1887, then at Göttingen as professor from 1901, and at Freiburg im Breisgau from 1916 until he retired in 1928. Following "retirement," he used the library at Freiburg to continue his researches and writing. He died at Freiburg on April 26, 1938.

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Works by Husserl

• Über den Begriff der Zahl. Psychologische Analysen (1887)
• Philosophie der Arithmetik. Psychologische und logische Untersuchungen (1891)
• Logische Untersuchungen. Erste Teil: Prolegomena zur reinen Logik (1900)
• Logische Untersuchungen. Zweite Teil: Untersuchungen zur Phänomenologie und Theorie der Erkenntnis (1901)
• Philosophie als strenge Wissenschaft (1911)
• Ideen zu einer reinen Phänomenologie und phänomenologischen Philosophie. Erstes Buch: Allgemeine Einführung in die reine Phänomenologie (1913)
• Vorlesungen zur Phänomenologie des inneren Zeitbewusstseins (1928)
• Formale und transzendentale Logik. Versuch einer Kritik der logischen Vernunft (1929)
• Mèditations cartèsiennes (1931)
• Die Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzentale Phänomenologie: Eine Einleitung in die phänomenologische Philosophie (1936)

Works on Husserl

• Rollinger, R. D. (1999). Husserl’s Position in the School of Brentano Phaenomenologica 150. Kluwer, Dordrecht. ISBN 0792356845
• Schuhmann, K. (1977). Husserl – Chronik (Denk- und Lebensweg Edmund Husserls) Number I in Husserliana Dokumente Nijhoff, Den Haag. ISBN 9024719720
• Smith, B. and Smith, D., editors (1995). The Cambridge Companion to Husserl Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0521436168
• Derrida, Jacques (english published 1976), "Undecidables and old names: Derrida's deconstruction and Introduction to Husserl's The origin of geometry"
• Derrida, Jacques (French 1967, English 1973), "Speech and Phenomena (La Voix et la Phenomena), and other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs" ISBN 0810103974