“Edmund Husserl and the Crisis of Europe”
July 10th, 2008
At left: Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)
Coming from a Continental philosophy background, Edmund Husserl loomed large in my training, especially at the graduate level. And even in the analytic tradition, there is a great deal of interest in Husserl, mainly in his phenomenological and mathematical writings.
Husserl’s work is not always easy to understand, and many worthy philosophers have struggled to comprehend him.* Thus, readers might find this very interesting article outlining Edmund Husserl’s project — Caitlin Smith’s “Edmund Husserl and the Crisis of Europe” — to be of interest.
A hat-tip to Bookforum.com for this link.
*One of the interesting items in the Robbins collection is Josiah Royce’s copy of Husserl’s first phenomenological work, Logical Investigations. In the interleaved note pages, Royce’s comments indicate a growing confusion with Husserl’s arguments, until, about halfway through the first volume, he writes that he cannot understand the book and is putting it aside.