![]() ![]() Although he did not excel at school, he nevertheless developed a passion for science and mathematics. Shortly afterwards, he moved a lot closer to home when he transferred to the public gymnasium in Olmuetz. When he was 10, his father, a clothing merchant, sent him to Vienna to begin his education proper at the Realgymnasium. ![]() ![]() He was born in Prossnitz, Moravia, then a part of the Austrian empire, and now in the Czech Republic, on 8 April 1859. Husserl’s interest in consciousness can be traced to his formative years and the influence of his teachers. He called this approach “phenomenology”, which, in its most general sense, consists of the analysis and explication of the structures of conscious experience. Normally, there would be little excuse for this kind of thing, but, in the case of Husserl, we can perhaps forgive him the technical vocabulary, for he did invent a new philosophical approach, one which dominated much of philosophy in the continental tradition in the 20th century. In the eyes of Husserl scholars, this is almost certainly a good thing, for they like nothing better than to entertain each other with talk of “epoches”, “eidetic reduction”, “noemata”, “horizons” and “hyle”. Husserl’s liking for new words, and new uses for old words, makes him a difficult philosopher to read. Born in 1859, Edmund Husserl invented a new philosophical approach, one which dominated much of the continental tradition in the 20th century (Public Domain)Įdmund Husserl (1859–1938) was the originator of the philosophy of phenomenology, which would come into its own during the 20th century. ![]()
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