20th century · 1859–1938
Who influenced Edmund Husserl?
Influences and legacy
Bracketed the world to describe pure experience — phenomenology's founder.
Edmund Husserl was influenced by Bernard Bolzano, Rudolf Hermann Lotze, Franz Brentano and Gottlob Frege, and went on to influence Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, Edith Stein, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida and 3 others. That is 13 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Edmund Husserl?
Edmund Husserl founded phenomenology. He studied mathematics under Karl Weierstrass and philosophy under Franz Brentano and Carl Stumpf, and taught at Halle, Göttingen and Freiburg, where he retired in 1928.
His early work used the analysis of intentionality to criticise historicism and psychologism in logic. Later he sought a foundational science built on the phenomenological reduction and recast phenomenology as transcendental idealism. In 1933 the Nazi racial laws barred him from the Freiburg university library because of his Jewish background; he died in Freiburg in 1938.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Edmund Husserl?
4 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Bernard Bolzano 1781–1848
- Rudolf Hermann Lotze 1817–1881
- Franz Brentano 1838–1917
- Gottlob Frege 1848–1925
Who did Edmund Husserl influence?
9 thinkers on this map draw directly on Edmund Husserl.
- Max Scheler 1874–1928
- Martin Heidegger 1889–1976
- Edith Stein 1891–1942
- Roman Ingarden 1893–1970
- Alfred Schutz 1899–1959
- Jean-Paul Sartre 1905–1980
- Emmanuel Levinas 1906–1995
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1908–1961
- Jacques Derrida 1930–2004
The line of teachers behind Edmund Husserl
The longest documented line of influence ending at Edmund Husserl runs 22 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Friedrich Herbart
- Rudolf Hermann Lotze
- Edmund Husserl
Two steps away from Edmund Husserl
Indirect influences
- Through Bernard Bolzano: Immanuel Kant
- Through Rudolf Hermann Lotze: Johann Friedrich Herbart
- Through Franz Brentano: Aristotle
- Through Gottlob Frege: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The second generation
Contemporaries of Edmund Husserl
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Edmund Husserl, with no direct line between them.
- Henri Bergson 1859–1941
- John Dewey 1859–1952
- Georg Simmel 1858–1918
- Ferdinand de Saussure 1857–1913
- Georgi Plekhanov 1856–1918
- Max Weber 1864–1920
- Vladimir Solovyov 1853–1900
- Lev Shestov 1866–1938
Edmund Husserl by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 4
- Direct followers
- 9 — #6 of 279 on this map
- Thinkers upstream
- 87
- Thinkers downstream
- 16
- Wikipedia languages
- 82 — #19 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Edmund Husserl
- Who influenced Edmund Husserl?
- Bernard Bolzano, Rudolf Hermann Lotze, Franz Brentano and Gottlob Frege.
- Who did Edmund Husserl influence?
- Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, Edith Stein, Roman Ingarden, Alfred Schutz, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jacques Derrida.
- When did Edmund Husserl live?
- 1859–1938. The map files Edmund Husserl under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Edmund Husserl card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Edmund Husserl in 82 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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- Martin Heidegger 1889–1976
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