Philosophy · Science · 1859–1938
Born: 8 April 1859 · Died: 27 April 1938 · Age at death: 79
Edmund Husserl died aged 79. He was born on 8 April 1859 and died on 27 April 1938.
Philosopher who established the school of phenomenology
Did you know?He was originally a mathematician and only turned to philosophy after attending lectures by Franz Brentano in Vienna.
Edmund Husserl wanted philosophy to start again from the simplest thing: how things appear to us. His phenomenology asked people to describe experience carefully before theorising about it. The method shaped Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and much of twentieth-century thought. As a Jew under Nazi rule he was barred from his university. He died in 1938. A Franciscan priest smuggled his huge archive of shorthand manuscripts to Belgium. Scholars are still editing and publishing it today.
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (Austrian German:; 8 April 1859 – 27 April 1938) was an Austrian and German philosopher and mathematician who established the school of phenomenology. In his early work, he elaborated critiques of historicism and of psychologism in logic based on analyses of intentionality.
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German philosopher, born 1859
Edmund Husserl was born in Prostějov on 8 April 1859.
He founded phenomenology, the study of experience as it appears.
He wrote Logical Investigations in 1900–01.
His students included Martin Heidegger.
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Did you know?He trained first as a mathematician.
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