Is he the Plato of phenomenology? It seems that most concepts in the phenomenological tradition and even existentialism appear first in Husserls work. That counts for scheler and Heidegger and the French. All of the phenomenologists pick one or more concept found in Husserl and expand that.
>guys I just discovered Plato is the founder of Platonism>guys I just discovered Phenomeno is the founder of Phenomenology
>>25385193Damn that's such a profound observation, it had to take you years to acquire such deep knowledge. I kneel.
Yes, and Husserl is famous for never really having systematized them. His archive is literally ten thousand schizo half-finished essays and scribbled sketches for some essay finally explaining phenomenology once and for all, or finally tackling the most important phenomenological inquiry. For a long time you couldn't really access him in print except in a few essays that don't fully represent his thought, so people like Fink and Merleau-Ponty who were able to access his archival writings were very lucky. And you can tell what an influence it had on them since they are brilliant original phenomenologists. Now of course the Husserliana collection is so good that you can literally read the notes Husserl wrote in the margins of his personal copy of Being and Time gifted to him by Heidegger. But still today there are things that are not published, because the archive is just so massive and hard to systematize. Husserl launched a thousand ships, and half of them rejected him while continuing to do things they could only do because he showed them how, and the other half thought they were defending Husserl's true legacy but were doing it in ways that Husserl himself might not recognize. It's hard to pin down what is so original about his thinking. He can be unbearably boring in certain ways, since he's so meticulous, and he's not like Heidegger where he suddenly leaps onto the scene and dazzles everyone with now "new" he seems - he's even frustratingly "old" much of the time, in the way he has to plod through the anti-psychologism of the Investigations before he even gets to the actual proto-phenomenological INVESTIGATIONS at the end of the book called "Investigations," thus making YOU plod through all that shit too before you can enjoy the famous Husserl you've been hearing about. I think what's interesting about him is that he knew he had his hand on a dragon's tail and he just never let go, even if it took him decades to realize what the fuck the tail belonged to, and then he changed his mind about what a dragon is every ten seconds after that anyway. Everybody else is following some one or other of his thrashings as he clung for dear life to the dragon. They may develop one of those thrashings more singularly, like Heidegger, but the tenacity of the clinging itself over DECADES, going wherever it led him, is unique to Husserl. Everybody else wanted to claim and inhabit a space carved out by some one of the thrashings. So when you read Husserl you get this exciting sense of being on a genuine lifelong quest and adventure, whereas when you read Heidegger it's kind of like "alright Heidegger how are you going to try to sell me your Heideggerism this week" even if you leap ahead decades in his thought.
>>25385774Edmund “Phenomeno” Husserl
>>25386498Thanks for the input.I was genuinely surprised by Husserl and Heidegger in that it seems, they always start over with every book. Like they are trying to think through their own ideas anew to bring everyone on board. This made me respect them very much because it shows progress in their thinking and the acknowledgment of the need to rethink everything and to present it in an alternate way.
>>25385193he may be the plato of retardness (phenomenology)
>>25386662Quiet you
Squandering incredible brain juice on philosophy should be a crime. I can't believe people dedicate their lives to this kind of mental masturbation that leads nowhere and does nothing for anybody.
>>25386748Someone has been filtered hard, I see.
>>25386753How can I be filtered hard if I never read a single sentence of Random Philosopher #53? I don't want to even expose myself to such mental masturbation.
>>25386757Why are you posting in this thread then?
