Edmund Husserl ( phenomenologgy )

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