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Husserl

American  
[hoos-erl] / ˈhʊs ɛrl /

noun

  1. Edmund (Gustav Albrecht) 1859–1938, German philosopher born in Austria.


Husserl British  
/ ˈhʊsərl /

noun

  1. Edmund (ˈɛtmʊnt). 1859–1938, German philosopher; founder of phenomenology

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“Edmund Husserl mentions nothing about any of that!”

From Los Angeles Times

Another Londoner, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust volunteer Zdenka Husserl, is a survivor of Theresienstadt concentration camp and came to Surrey as a refugee.

From BBC

I have been going back to Husserl and Sartre and Camus.

From New York Times

Touch — to use phenomenologist Edmund Husserl’s words — is a “double sensation.”

From Washington Post

By day, she struggled to parse Husserl in the original German; by night, she watched a lot of YouTube—“ ‘Christopher Hitchens destroys creationist in debate,’ that kind of thing,” she said.

From The New Yorker