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Category:	Modern Literature
Name:	Edmund Husserl
Birth Year:	1859
Death Year:	1938
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Edmund Husserl! SEARCH NOW: by title by author Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), originator of the phenomenological movement. Pupil of Franz Brentano. Husserl Influenced Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, among others. Husserl is best known for his extesive use of the the notion that that the main characteristic of consciousness is that it is always intentional, i.e. directed at some kind of content ("Inhalt"): consciousness is always "consciousness of something." He borrowed the concept of the intentional from Brentano, as can be seen from the latter's Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt (Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint). Further, he asserted that studying the flow of consciousness as directed (the act of noesis) at the perceived phenomena (the noemata) yields knowledge of essential structures in reality. In the last period of his life, Husserl shifted to a more explicitly idealist position, which is best expressed in his Cartesian Meditations (1931). His main work, however, remains Logische Untersuchungen (Logical Investigations; first edition, 1900-1901). Husserl, who was born into a Jewish familly in Prossnitz in Moravia was eventualy denied the use of the university library at Freiburgformer, because of the racial cleansing laws issued by the Nazi party, and carried out at the university by Martin Heidegger, Husserl's most famous pupil. Moreover Heidegger removed the dedication to his most widely known work Being and Time when it was reissued in 1941. [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Edmund Husserl.] The Great Books: Edmund Husserl Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Edmund Husserl. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Edmund Husserl. Comments or Questions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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