HUSSERL - BACKGROUND

<BODY> <CENTER><FONT SIZE=5><B><FONT SIZE=6>HUSSERL</FONT><BR> THE PHENOMENOLOGIST</B></FONT></CENTER><P> <FONT SIZE=4><B>Background</B></FONT><P> <FONT SIZE=4><B>A WORLD OF UNCERTAINTY</B></FONT><BR> Husserl was a German Jewish philosopher at a time in German history when being Jewish was a distinct disadvantage. After gaining his Ph.D in mathematics at Berlin university, he lectured at the universities of Göttingen and Freiburg. Nazi influence had him displaced in favour of his former pupil, <A HREF="../t06/t06f11.html" TARGET="_top">Heidegger</A>. Husserl believed that the political and social crisis to which he had fallen victim followed from an intellectual crisis. Modern science had failed to provide its promised answers.<P> <CENTER><IMG SRC="2102a.jpg" WIDTH="183" HEIGHT="180" ALT="LEAVING"></CENTER><P> Husserl wanted to create a philosophy that would provide a firm foundation of certain knowledge upon which all other sciences would rest. His <A HREF="../t03/g038.html" TARGET="_top">phenomenology</A> was to be a philosophy of radical renewal through which mankind would learn to see the world anew. All prejudices would be eliminated, all simplistic answers to fundamental questions would be suspended, all taken for granted attitudes abandoned. The result - a "Europe founded on truth". <BR clear=left><BR> <HR width=100%> <A HREF="http://www.creatorix.com.au"><IMG SRC="../creatorix.gif" WIDTH="85" HEIGHT="40" BORDER="0" ALT="Creatorix" align=right></A> </BODY>