Philosophers in Exile The Correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Aron Gurwitsch, 1939-1959

Name: Philosophers in Exile The Correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Aron Gurwitsch, 1939-1959
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ISBN: 9780253326270

ISBN-10: 0253326273

ISBN-13: 9780253326270

Edition: 1989

Authors: Richard Grathoff, J. Claude Evans, Maurice A. Natanson

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This book presents the remarkable correspondence between Alfred Schutz and Aron Gurwitsch, emigre philosophers influenced by Edmund Husserl, who fled Europe on the eve of World War II and ultimately became seminal figures in the establishment of phenomenology in the United States. Their deep and lasting friendship grew out of their mutual concern with the question of the connections between science and the life-world. Interwoven with philosophical exchange is the two scholars' encounter with the unfamiliar problems of American academic life -- what Gurwitsch called the "passology" of exile. Apart from its brilliant and moving portrait of two distinguished men, the correspondence holds rich…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/22/1989
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 380
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.15" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English