The Reception of Husserlian Phenomenology in North America (Contributions to Phenomenology (100))

This book presents a historiographical and theorical analysis of how Husserlian Phenomenology arrived and developed in North America. The chapters analyze the different phases of the reception of Edmund Husserl's thought in the USA and Canada. The volume discusses the authors and universities that played a fundamental role in promoting Husserlian Phenomenology and clarifies their connection with American Philosophy, Pragmatism, and with Analytic Philosophy. Starting from the analysis of how the first American Scholars of Edmund Husserl's thought opened the door to the reception of his texts, the book explores the first encounters between Pragmatism and Husserlian Phenomenology in American Universities. The study focuses, then, on those Scholars who fled from Europe to America, from 1933 onwards, to escape Nazism - Felix Kaufmann, Alfred Schutz, Aron Gurwitsch, Herbert Spiegelberg, Fritz Kaufmann, among the most notable - and illustrates how their teaching provided the very basis for the spreading of Husserlian Phenomenology in North America. The volume examines, then, the action of the 20th Century North-American Husserl Scholars, together with those places, societies, centers, and journals, specifically created to represent the development of the studies devoted to Husserlian Phenomenology in the U.S., with a focus of the Regional Phenomenological Schools. --Publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Husserl at Harvard: The Origins of American Phenomenology (Jonathan Strassfeld)....Pages 3-23 Phenomenology’s Inauguration in English and in the North American Curriculum: Winthrop Bell’s 1927 Harvard Course (Jason Bell)....Pages 25-45 The Freiburg Encounter: Aron Gurwitsch and Edmund Husserl on Transformations of Consciousness (Daniel Marcelle)....Pages 47-70 Front Matter ....Pages 71-71 The Place of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research (Judith Friedlander)....Pages 73-98 The Golden Age of Phenomenology: At the New School for Social Research, 1954–1973 (Lester Embree, Michael Barber)....Pages 99-106 The Checkered Legacy of Marvin Farber’s Idiosyncratic Understanding of Phenomenology (Eric Chelstrom)....Pages 107-129 The Role of Dorion Cairns in the Reception of Phenomenology in North America: The First “Born American” Phenomenologist (Richard Zaner)....Pages 131-142 Front Matter ....Pages 143-143 Important Twentieth Century American Husserl Scholars (Thomas Nenon, Michela Beatrice Ferri)....Pages 145-149 Herbert Spiegelberg: From Munich to North America (Carlo Ierna)....Pages 151-166 Jitendra Nath Mohanty: A Phenomenological Vedāntin (Gabriel R. Ricci)....Pages 167-186 Philosophy and the Integrity of the Person: The Phenomenology of Robert Sokolowski (Molly Brigid McGrath)....Pages 187-204 A.-T. Tymieniecka: A Phenomenologist in the United States. The Adventures of a Polish-Born American (Daniela Verducci)....Pages 205-223 Front Matter ....Pages 225-225 The History of the Husserl Archives Established in Memory of Alfred Schutz at the New School for Social Research (Michela Beatrice Ferri)....Pages 227-238 The Impact of North American Phenomenological Organizations: The Chronicle Revisited (Daniel Marcelle)....Pages 239-260 History of the Husserl Circle (Algis Mickunas, Burt C. Hopkins)....Pages 261-266 The Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (Anthony J. Steinbock)....Pages 267-281 A History of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc. (Thomas Nenon)....Pages 283-291 The Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University and Phenomenology in North America (Jeffrey McCurry, Chelsea R. Binnie)....Pages 293-313 Front Matter ....Pages 315-315 Importing Phenomenology: The Early Editorial Life of “Philosophy and Phenomenological Research” (Gabriel R. Ricci)....Pages 317-336 Two North American Phenomenological Journals: “Husserl Studies” and “The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy” (William McKenna, Burt C. Hopkins)....Pages 337-341 Front Matter ....Pages 343-343 Phenomenology in America (1964–1984) (Don Ihde)....Pages 345-364 California Phenomenology (Jeffrey Yoshimi, Clinton Tolley, David Woodruff Smith)....Pages 365-387 Dallas Willard: Reviving Realism on the West Coast (Micah D. Tillman)....Pages 389-407 Husserl and the Pittsburgh School (Nicholas Rescher)....Pages 409-415 From Consciousness to Being: Edith Stein’s Philosophy and Its Reception in North America (Antonio Calcagno)....Pages 417-431 Front Matter ....Pages 433-433 The Analytic Reception of Husserlian Phenomenology in the United States: History, Problems, and Prospects (Paul M. Livingston)....Pages 435-459 Back Matter ....Pages 461-482