The Golden age of phenomenology

at the New school for social research, 1954–1973

Lester Embree

Michael Barber

pp. 99-106

in: Michela B. Ferri, Carlo Ierna (eds), The reception of Husserlian phenomenology in North America, Berlin, Springer, 2019

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the spreading of Husserlian Phenomenology to the United States by the community of scholars who taught and studied at the New School for Social Research from 1954 through 1973. The protagonists of this phase, Thomas Dorion Cairns (1901–1973), American-born, Alfred Schutz (1899–1959), and Aron Gurwitsch (1901–1973), critically and creatively followed the mature Edmund Husserl even if in different ways and years. Their link is represented by the fact that they were part of the department of Philosophy of the New School for Social Research to create the first group of scholars in Husserlian Phenomenology in the country. The Husserlian Phenomenology that they brought to the New School has subsequently spread through the Anglophone world.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Gurwitsch Aron

Schütz Alfred

Cairns Dorion