
Phenomenology
Edmund Husserl
1859–1938
“To the things themselves—bracketing the natural attitude.”
Edmund Husserl was a German philosopher who established the school of phenomenology. His rigorous method of investigating consciousness and experience has influenced virtually all 20th century continental philosophy, from Heidegger to Merleau-Ponty to Derrida.
Contribution
Phenomenological reduction, intentionality, lifeworld
Key Works
- • Logical Investigations
- • Ideas
- • Cartesian Meditations
- • The Crisis of European Sciences