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Chapters: Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edith Stein, Emmanuel Levinas, Colin Wilson, Dermot Moran, Hans Lipps, Jean-Luc Marion, Ernst Cassirer, Hassan Hanafi, Juha Varto, Mark Wrathall, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Moritz Geiger, List of Phenomenologists. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 110. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (German pronunciation: ; April 8, 1859, Prostjov, Moravia, Austrian Empire April 26, 1938, Freiburg, Germany) was a philosopher who is deemed the founder of phenomenology. He broke with the positivist orientation of the science and philosophy of his day, believing that experience is the source of all knowledge, while at the same time he elaborated critiques of psychologism and historicism. Born into a Moravian Jewish family, he was baptized as a Lutheran in 1887. Husserl studied mathematics under Karl Weierstrass, completing a Ph.D. under Leo Königsberger, and studied philosophy under Franz Brentano and Carl Stumpf. Husserl taught philosophy, as a Privatdozent at Halle from 1887, then as professor, first at Göttingen from 1901, then at Freiburg im Breisgau from 1916 until his 1928 retirement. Husserl's teaching and writing influenced, among others, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Kurt Gödel, Alfred Schütz, Paul Ricur, Jacques Derrida, Dietrich von Hildebrand and Francisco Varela. Husserl was born in 1859 into a Jewish family in Prostjov, a town that was then in the Austrian Empire, after 1918 a part of Czechoslovakia, and since 1993 a part of the Czech Republic. He initially studied mathematics at the universities of Leipzig (1876) and Berlin (1878), under Karl Weierstrass and Leopold Kronecker. In 1881 he went to Vienna to study under the supervision of Leo Königsberger (a former stud...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9518 ... Read more

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