Edmund Husserl (phenomenology)
Edmund Husserl was
born on April 8 1859, in a Jewish family in the town of Prossnitz in Moravia.
Edmund's father is a clothing merchant, when he was 10 age, his father sent the
him (Edmund) to vienna to begin his studies (German classical education). And
in 1870, his father transferred Edmund to the Staatsgymnasium in Olmütz,
because that was closer to their home. He was remembered there, he was a
student that loved math and science, "of blond and pale complexion, but of
good appetite." He graduated in 1876 and went to Leipzig university for
studies.
Husserl studied
physics, math, and philosophy, at Leipzig university and he was interested with
optics and astronomy.
After 2 years, he
went to berlin in 1878. Husserl join an academic post in berlin, and then in
1884 he back to Wina for join Franz Brentano's lectures in philosophy.
He went to Halle in
1886, he wrote his habilitations schrift and also studied psychology. He wrote
his habilitation about on the concept of number. And the next year he became
Privatdozent at Halle and provide merried with women from prossnitz and she was
from jewish community, her named is Malvine Charlotte Steinschneider, who was
baptized before the wedding. They had three children. They life at Halle until
1901, and Husserl wrote his important books there and that’s so early. The
Habilitationsschrift was reworked into the first part of Philosophie der
Arithmetik, and that’s published in 1891. Logische Untersuchungen came out in
1900 and 1901 and there are two volumes.
Husserl joined the
faculty at Göttingen in 1901, and he taught for 16 years and he worked out the
definitive formulations of his phenomenology that are presented in Ideen zu
einer reinen phenomenologie und phänomenologischen Philosophie (Ideas
Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy).
The first volume of that appeared in the first volume of Husserl's in 1913 that
Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung. Then, when the
world war disrupted the circle of Husserl's younger colleagues, while his son,
Wolfgang Husserl died at Verdun. Husserl was kept silence and observed
professionally during at the time.
And then, in 1916
Husserl accepted appointment to a professorship at Freiburg in Breisgau, and
the position from which he would retire in 1928. At Freiburg, Husserl continued
his work that be published after his death as volumes 2 and 3 of the Ideen,
as well as on many other projects. His retirement from teaching in 1928 didn’t slow
the pace of his phenomenological research. But last years were saddened with
husserl. And finally on Good Friday, He passed away of pleurisy in 1938.
“His work left an original purely and
honesty positive orientation in science and philosophy of the time, and give
priority to subjective experience as the source of all our knowledge about the
phenomenon objectively.”
Books of Edmund H :
1.
Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology
2.
Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
3.
Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy
4.
The Idea of Phenomenology
5.
Logical Investigations, Vol 1
6.
Ideas
7.
On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (1893 1917)
8.
Logical Investigations, Vol 2
9.
The Essential Husserl: Basic Writings in Transcendental Phenomenology
10. Ideas
Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, Second
Book Studies in the Phenomenology of Constitution
11. Experience
and Judgment
12.
Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy
13. Formal and
Transcendental Logic
14. Analyses
Concerning Passive and Active Synthesis: Lectures on Transcendental Logic
15. The Basic
Problems of Phenomenology: From the Lectures, Winter Semester, 1910-11
16. Philosophy
of Arithmetic: Psychological and Logical Investigations with Supplementary
Texts from 1887 1901
