Edmund Husserl
At a glance:
- Series: World Philosophers and Their Works
- Categories: Philosophy
- Subcategories: Philosophers
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, 19th Century European History, German History
Article abstract: Husserl is known as the founder of phenomenology, regarded by many as one of the most significant movements of the twentieth century.
Early Life
Edmund Husserl was born on April 8, 1859, in Prossnitz, Moravia (then part of Austria), to a German-speaking Jewish family. (The Jewish connection would later become a liability, even though Husserl had become an Evangelical Lutheran in 1886. Throughout his life, he remained deeply moral and religious but not within the framework of a particular sect.) He passed the Gymnasium...
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