Life and works
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 8 April 1859 | Born in Proßnitz, Moravia, then in the Austrian Empire (present-day Prostějov, Czechia).[4] |
| January 1883 | Takes his doctorate in mathematics in Vienna with a thesis on the calculus of variations; works briefly as Weierstrass's assistant in Berlin.[3] |
| 1887–1901 | Privatdozent at the University of Halle for fourteen years; in 1891 publishes his first book, Philosophy of Arithmetic.[3] |
| 1900–1901 | Publishes the Logical Investigations, the founding work of phenomenology.[3] [4] |
| 1901–1916 | Professor at Göttingen (extraordinarius from 1901, ordinarius from 1906), a position secured by the success of the Investigations.[3] [4] |
| 1913 | Publishes Ideas for a Pure Phenomenology (Ideas I), the transcendental turn of his thought.[4] |
| 1916 | Takes the chair of philosophy at Freiburg, succeeding the neo-Kantian Heinrich Rickert; Edith Stein becomes his assistant.[3] |
| 1928 | Retires at Freiburg, succeeded by Heidegger; shortly afterwards delivers in Paris the lectures that would become the Cartesian Meditations.[3] |
| 1933 | With the arrival of Nazism, suffers the exclusion imposed on Jews in Germany — in a letter of 4 May 1933 he speaks of the erection of a 'spiritual ghetto' in which he and his children were being enclosed.[3] |
| 1936 | Publishes (in part) The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, developed from lectures in Vienna and Prague.[3] |
| 27 April 1938 | Dies in Freiburg im Breisgau.[4] |
How he read him
Reception, not philosophy: each entry records how Olavo de Carvalho characterised this philosopher, attributed and dated to the 2002 course. The project does not adjudicate who is right. The recordings are machine-transcribed and unchecked against audio, so everything here is paraphrase and nothing is quoted.
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Named second in his twentieth-century canon, after Lavelle: what Husserl gave humanity, he says, cannot yet be measured, and everything of his he studies still holds seeds for centuries to come. The machine transcription writes the name 'Russel' throughout — one of the three documented traps in this corpus.
Curso História Essencial da Filosofia, session 04 — Aristotle — 2002 ?
Reception in the COF
Present in 107 of the 589 transcription files of the Curso Online de Filosofia; 24 lectures engage him substantially (5 or more mentions). The most engaged lectures:
This section documents what Olavo said and when — never what the philosopher "really" meant. Characterizations are Olavo’s, tied to a lecture by number and date.
| Lecture (aula) | Date | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| 65 | 2010-07-10 | 29 |
| 159 | 2012-06-16 | 15 |
| 176 | 2012-09-08 | 15 |
| 125 | 2011-10-08 | 12 |
| 142 | 2012-02-19 | 11 |
| 48 | 2010-03-06 | 10 |
| 115 | 2011-06-23 | 10 |
| 173 | 2012-09-22 | 9 |
| 40 | 2010-01-09 | 8 |
| 241 | 2014-03-01 | 8 |
| 25 | 2009-09-26 | 7 |
| 97 | 2011-03-12 | 7 |
| 169 | 2012-08-25 | 7 |
| 203 | 2013-05-11 | 7 |
| 260 | 2014-08-16 | 7 |
A dash in the date column means the transcription file carries no verified date — an undated file, not an undated lecture. Counts are accent-insensitive, word-boundary matches over the public community transcription corpus.[1] [2]
References
- COF — community transcriptions of the Curso Online de Filosofia (585 lectures) — Community transcription repository (upstream declares CC0 for the transcription work; the lectures remain the estate's)
- COF em Áudio — lecture audio collection — Internet Archive (community upload)
- Edmund Husserl — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Edmund Husserl — Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Edmund Husserl — Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy