biography
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Husserl, Edmund (Gustav Albrecht)
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pronunciation:
[huserl]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1859–1938)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, founder of the school of phenomenology, born in Prossnitz, EC Czech Republic. He studied mathematics at Berlin and psychology at Vienna, and taught at Halle (1887), Göttingen (1901), and Freiburg (1916). His two-volume Logische Untersuchungen (1900–1, Logical Investigations) defended the view of philosophy as an a priori discipline, unlike psychology, and in his Ideen zu einer reinen Phänomenologischen Philosophie (1913, trans Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology) he presented a programme for the systematic investigation of consciousness and its objects. His approach greatly influenced philosophers in Germany and the USA, particularly Heidegger, and gave rise to Gestalt psychology. |
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