Anti-Jewish laws forced Husserl’s Crisis to publish abroad.

Evidence

In November 1935, he applied again to travel to Prague, and permission was granted, so he delivered another lecture making similar arguments. Throughout that year, he had been working his ideas into a longer project. He finished the first two sections in January 1936, and published them as The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. Since the anti-Jewish laws now forbade him to publish anything in Germany, the work appeared in Philosophia, an international yearbook based in Belgrade. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 323

Categorization

  • XREF: The Crisis is a foundational text the reader will encounter repeatedly; knowing its publication circumstances enriches that reading. — connects to: Forced conversion demands structurally pushed Jewish intellectuals into state opposition. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 215

Broader Connections