File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9711, message 866


Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 10:48:54 -0500
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Husserl


Paul,
	In the USA Husserl scholars have much more often than not identified with those
'holding the line' against Heidegger-the-upstart-pseudo-phenomenologist and have
been fairly agast at figures like Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Deleuze,
etc.  The irony is that many of these scholars have become historians of
(Husserl's) ideas rather than giving phenomenological accounts.  Having spent 18
months at the Husserl Archive in Belgium, I know that Husserlian things are
quite different in Europe and certainly teaching Husserl needn't be and often
isn't a conservative affair, though I think Husserl's phenomenology has been the
whipping boy of so many philosophers that one risks seeming reactionary in
teaching and studying him.  I like Husserl and think it's even important to
study Husserl if you want to understand 20th century European thought.
	There is a really superb book on Husserl -- _An Introduction to Husserlian
Phenomenology_ by Rudolf Bernet (who just took over the Directorate of the
Husserl Archive from my old friend, Sam IJsseling), Iso Kern and Eduard Marbach
(the latter former scholars at the Husserl Archive).  It was originally
published in German by Felix Meiner Verlag and is in English by Northwestern
UP.  I wouldn't be surprised if there was a French version also.

Ciao,
Reg


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