The golden age of phenomenology at the New School for Social Research 1954-1973

Edited by
Lester Embree, Michael Barber

Series in Continental Thought | 50

Ohio University Press

2017

Abstract

This collection focuses on the introduction of 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. During those years, Dorion Cairns, Alfred Schutz, and Aron Gurwitsch—all former students of Edmund Husserl—came together in the department of philosophy to establish the first locus of phenomenology scholarship in the country. This founding trio was soon joined by three other prominent scholars in the field: Werner Marx, Thomas M. Seebohm, and J. N. Mohanty. The Husserlian phenomenology that they brought to the New School has subsequently spread through the Anglophone world as the tradition of Continental philosophy.

Reviews

• Justin Humphreys, "L. Embree, M. Barber (eds), The golden age of phenomenology at the New School for Social Research" Phenomenological Reviews 4, 2018, pp. 60-60

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund