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He was a prodigy, serving as an assistant to the phenomenologist Paul Ricœur, and an enigma, taking the train to Amiens every Friday to see Trogneux.

From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017

Martin Luther King Jr was among those who read both him and Martin Heidegger, the German phenomenologist who had most influenced Sartre.

From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2016

Ms. Bakewell spends a lot of time on Heidegger’s rivalry with his mentor and fellow phenomenologist, Edmund Husserl.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2016

Thus in Wolff we meet with a phenomenologist who in his way tried to oppose certain trends of contemporary biological thinking.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst