Edmund Husserl

Tags: Philosopher.

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (German: [ˈhʊsɐl]; April 8 1859 – April 27 1938) was a German philosopher who established the school of phenomenology. He broke with the positivist orientation of the science and philosophy of his day. He elaborated critiques of historicism and of psychologism in logic.

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birth date

1859-04-08

birth place

Czech Republic, Moravia, Austrian Empire, Prostějov

death date

1938-04-26, 1938-04-27

death place

Nazi Germany, Freiburg im Breisgau

era

20th-century philosophy

individualised GND number

118555006

influenced

Jean-Paul Sartre, Kurt Gödel, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Pope John Paul II, José Ortega y Gasset, Max Scheler, Hans Blumenberg, Paul Ricœur, Adolf Reinach, Jan Patočka, Shaun Gallagher, Edith Stein, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Rudolf Carnap, Ludwig Landgrebe, Emmanuel Levinas, Marvin Farber, Bernard Stiegler, Dan Zahavi, Hermann Weyl, Gabriel Marcel, Leszek Kołakowski, Dallas Willard, Hans Köchler, Roman Ingarden, Eugen Fink

influenced by

David Hume, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Plato, René Descartes, Bernard Bolzano, Carl Stumpf, Gottlob Frege, Franz Brentano, Karl Weierstrass, Hermann Lotze

main interest

Epistemology, Mathematics, Ontology

notableIdea

Physicalism, Transcendental idealism, Lifeworld, Noema, Phenomenology (philosophy), Eidetic reduction, Retention and protention, Epoché, Nous, Bracketing (phenomenology)

philosophicalSchool

Phenomenology (philosophy)

region

Western philosophy