Husserl on first philosophy

Robert Sokolowski

pp. 3-23

in: Carlo Ierna, Hanne Jacobs, Filip Mattens (eds), Philosophy, phenomenology, sciences, Berlin, Springer, 2010

Abstract

Husserl's philosophical influence has gone through high and low periods for over a century, but since his initial engagement with Frege in the 1890s he has continuously been a player on the cultural scene. There were times when he was overshadowed by some other figure or movement – he was somewhat eclipsed by Heidegger in the late 1920s and the 1930s, and by postmodernism in the last part of the 20^th century – but each of these periods was followed by a substantial resurgence, and even now interest in his work is showing up in places where it had not been visible in the past.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Heidegger Martin