Husserl and the 'Idealists

This paper is concerned with the influences of Fichte, Hegel, and Schopenhauer (to be collectively referred to as the “Idealists”), in phenomenology, primarily as it was conceived and developed by Edmund Husserl. The influences of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche in Existentialism, a fellow traveler and to some degree an offshoot of phenomenology, have long been recognized. Largely passed over or denied, however, are the influences of the German Idealists in phenomenology. This is not to say that Husserl acknowledged a debt to the Idealists; he might even have denied it. Nevertheless, there are certain thematic considerations, approaches, and insights developed by the Idealists which recur in Husserl's phenomenology

Apophantic · Epistemology · Existentialism · Hegelianism · Phenomenology (philosophy · Psychoanalysis · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy and Historical Thought · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology