The shadow of the other

Linda Fisher

pp. 169-192

in: Dan Zahavi (ed), Self-awareness, temporality, and alterity, Deventer, Kluwer, 1998

Abstract

There is a story that in the last years of his life, when Husserl wanted to go to Belgrade to give the lectures he had been forbidden to give in Germany, the Gestapo was assigned the task of first reading his manuscripts. Are we in turn going to look at philosophy through the police chief’s glasses? Philosopher Husserl, we declare you suspected of anti-Hegelianism, and have consequently placed you under surveillance...1

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund