Annotation
Husserl essentially changed the course of philosophy by founding phenomenology, a way of doing philosophy that was adopted, with additions and modifications, by Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Patočka and Derrida among others. In this seminar course, we will read through selections of Husserl’s works concerning how we grasp the sense of other persons as subjects like ourselves, how the sense of our own bodies defines our self-identity, and how we apprehend time. Husserl’s reflections on Europe and its crisis will be the final theme of this course.