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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 • Feb. 5, 2023

Rather, Husserl advocated that we focus on how the thing appears to us.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

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 • Jun. 2, 2022

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

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2021

Authenticity With The Self: For Actualization of Nursing's Potential Husserl, the father of phenomenology, suggested the study of our lived worlds, our experience, a return to the study of "the thing itself."

From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.