The Sociology of Philosophies

sition. When Husserl moved to Halle as a Dozent, his colleague Cantor introduced him to Bolzano’s logic and made him sympathetic ...

Husserl’s epochê is not Descartes’s skeptical doubt, clearing the decks of everything given; it retains the surface of phenomena ...

FIGURE 13.8. NETWORK OF PHENOMENOLOGISTS AND EXISTENTIALISTS, 1865–1965 ...

so-being, but it needs to be further generalized, since there are further realms of so-being which are not quantifiable. Meinong ...

War. Another circle formed at Munich around 1905, initially among the students of Theodor Lipps;^36 its members maintained conta ...

work. The spatiotemporal frame is what unites the infinity of things. Eventually he would see it as the setting or “horizon” wit ...

ers. But his career plan is to acquire the chair in Catholic theology, and in return for support by a church grant, he gives up ...

No doubt other Catholic students on the periphery of German philosophy had Brentano and Scotus available as cultural capital, wi ...

putting Hartmann in the shade (Gadamer, 1985: 23–26; Schnädelbach, 1984: 209–216). Scheler, who occasionally visited Marburg in ...

Heidegger was moving along the same path; reacting against his starting point in Catholic scholasticism, he overturned the secur ...

nant established churches, especially ones which rule with the aid of state monopoly. But as secularization succeeds and religio ...

been concerned with the phenomenology of time, although in his earlier work it remained a subsidiary issue. In the 1920s, in par ...

work turns away from Dasein, and in mood of increasing hostility to Christi- anity, looks directly for a way in which Being “spe ...

which by the 1930s Husserl was perceiving as the downfall of the entire Western cultural tradition was the usual condition of in ...

the scene in 1927, his emphasis on negation was singled out by Carnap in the second issue of Erkenntnis (1931) as the epitome of ...

canons.^47 Anti-Nazi feeling coincided with the positivist ideology—most vehe- mently expressed in Popper’s book The Open Societ ...

CHAPTER 14 £ Writers’ Markets and Academic Networks: The French Connection If academic disciplines have been the main driving fo ...

ity, and politics (Heilbron, 1994). In a patronage structure, writers reflect the concerns of their sponsors; in this I include ...

pinched by the demands of the mass market: Schiller and Goethe adroitly played both bases. For the same reason, the moment of ex ...

The Secularization Struggle and French Popular Philosophy In France there have been two major episodes of vitalist science-relig ...