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Philosophy Club: Edmund Husserl - Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy

Philosophical Discussion | Philosophical Discussion

  • Goethe-Institut Boston, Boston, MA

  • English
  • Part of series: Philosophy Club

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Edmund Husserl, the teacher of Edith Stein, Eugen Fink, and Martin Heidegger, was the founder of the phenomenological method. He had a massive impact on 20th century philosophy. This work contains two essays spanning Husserl’s time developing the phenomenological approach.
Our discussion will focus on Husserl’s phenomenology and why it was so radical of a departure from previous philosophy, namely that objects are not emanating things but instead are actually “constituted” by people’s intentionalities. We will examine key concepts such as intentionality and bracketing as well as how Husserl wove mathematics, universality, reason, intuition, logic, and scientific method into his analysis.
(Discussion will take place in English.)
 

Bruce Kaplan

Moderator

Bruce Kaplan has moderated the Goethe Philosophy Discussion group since 2011. A practicing urban planner, he received graduate training in Continental Philosophy and modern intellectual history. His independent scholarship has focused on modern intellectual history, film, architecture, urban planning, communal studies and Jewish studies. He has presented at more than a dozen academic and professional conferences on 4 continents.