Edmund Husserl

The Crisis of European Sciences

Diagnosis of modern science's loss of meaning and philosophical foundation

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Edmund Husserl
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.

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