Adventures in Phenomenology

Abstract

THE year 1938 marked the end of two lives rich in achievement, those of Edmund Husserl and Samuel Alexander. Not only so, but 1859 witnessed the birth of each of them. So far as Great Britain is concerned, it is scarcely possible to imagine a greater contrast between two contemporaries in regard to influence and knowledge of their works: Alexander, widely recognized and read; Husserl, almost unknown, except to the few. Perhaps it is needless to pursue this matter further, except to remark that Husserl has been but little translated into English, and that in the original German his style, but more particularly his thought, is difficult and complex to a degree rarely encountered even in the Geistliteratur of Continental philosophers and psychologists.