The Reception of Husserlian Phenomenology in North America

Part I. Husserl's Students Between Europe and North America Chapter 1: Husserl at Harvard:The Origins of American Phenomenology.- Chapter 2. Phenomenology's Inauguration in the American Curriculum in Winthrop bell's 1927 Harvard Course.- Chapter 3. The Freiburg Encounter: Aron Gurwitsch and Edmund Husserl on Transformations of Consciousness.- Part II. Establishment at the New School.- Chapter 4. The Place of Phenomenology at the New School for Social Research.- Chapter 5. The Golden Age of Phenomenology at the New School for Social Research, 1954-1973.- Chapter 6. The Checkered Legacy of Marvin Farber's Idiosyncratic Understanding of Phenomenology.- Chapter 7. The role of Dorion Cairns in the reception of Phenomenology in North America. The first "born American" Phenomenologist.- Part III. Some notable Husserlian Phenomenologists in North America.- Chapter 8. Important 20th Century American Husserl Scholars.- Chapter 9. Herbert Spiegelberg: From Münich to North America.- Chapter 10. Jitendra Nath Mohanty: A Phenomenological Vedantin.- Chapter 11. Philosophy and the Integrity of the Person: The Phenomenology of Robert Sokolowski.- Chapter 12. A.-T. Tymieniecka: a phenomenologist in the United States The adventures of a Polish-born American.- Part IV. The Spreading of Phenomenology in North America. Societies and Centers.- Chapter 13. The History of the Husserl-Archives Established in Memory of Alfred Schutz at The New School for Social Research.- Chapter 14. The Impact of North American Phenomenological Organizations: The Chronicle Revisited.- Chapter 15. History of the Husserl Circle.- Chapter 16. The Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.- Chapter 17. A History of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc..- Chapter 18. The Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University and Phenomenology in North America.- Part V. North American Phenomenological Journals.- Chapter 19. Importing Phenomenology: The Early Editorial Life

Dr. Michela Beatrice Ferri (1983) is faculty at the Holy Apostles College and Seminary (CT, U.S.A.) .  After obtaining a B.A. (2005) and a M.A. (2007) both in Philosophy, she earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2012 at the University of Milan (Italy), with a dissertation dedicated to the first reception of Edmund Husserl's thought in the United States of America. She has been visiting Ph.D. Student at the New School for Social Research in New York (2010) and at the Husserl-Archives in Leuven (2011). She has been visiting researcher at the CSTMS of the University of California Berkeley (2014). Her researches concentrate on the reception of Husserlian Phenomenology in Italy and in the United States of America, on the history of Phenomenology, on Phenomenological Aesthetics, on Modern and Contemporary Aesthetics, on the dialogue between Philosophy, Visual Arts, Architecture, and Cultural Studies, on Aesthetics of the Sacred Art and on Christian Iconography, on Jewish Studies with afocus on history of the Holocaust.

 Dr. Carlo Ierna is currently lecturer in Modern Philosophy at the University of Groningen and the Radboud University Nijmegen, and has recently also been affiliated with the Free University of Amsterdam as well as having been a member of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of the Sciences (2017). After completing his PhD (2009) and a postdoc (2012) at the Husserl-Archives Leuven, he obtained a prestigious Dutch NWO VENI grant to work on the ideal of "Philosophy as Science" in the School of Brentano (2012-2016). He has been visiting fellow at Harvard University (2014) and visiting researcher at the Brentano Archives Graz (2014). His recent work concentrates on the School of Brentano, early phenomenology, and Gestalt psychology, with a focus on symbolic intentionality and the philosophy of mathematics.

"This book is more than just a history of the way in which Husserl's work was studied and taught in the United States and Canada ... . The book clearly shows the different phases in the development of the phenomenological movement in North America, the numerous institutions participating in it, and the variety of local perspectives. ... the reader will find in this wonderful volume, which might be more exciting than what one would expect at a first glance." (Carlos Belvedere, Human Studies, Vol. 43 (2), 2020)