Edmund Husserl
German philosopher who founded phenomenology, the rigorous investigation of conscious experience. His method of bracketing assumptions to describe the structures of consciousness influenced Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. He was marginalized by the Nazis because of his Jewish heritage.
Works
- Logical InvestigationsStudy of consciousness and intentionality founding phenomenological philosophy
- Ideas IMethod of phenomenological reduction and study of consciousness
- Cartesian MeditationsMeditations on the foundations of phenomenology and philosophy
- The Crisis of European SciencesDiagnosis of modern science's loss of meaning and philosophical foundation
- On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal TimePhenomenological analysis of how consciousness experiences time
- Crisis of the European SciencesLate work on European philosophical crisis and cultural regression
- Phenomenology of Internal Time-ConsciousnessStudy of temporal awareness in consciousness and experience