Husserl’s late thought abandoned inwardness for a shared social world

Evidence

Husserl would later undergo another shift, turning again towards an outside arena shared with other people in a rich mixture of bodily and social experience. In his last years, he would say less about Descartes’ and Augustine’s inwardness, and more about the ‘world’ in which experience occurs. For now, however, he was almost entirely looking within. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 165

Categorization

• XREF: Plots Husserl’s philosophical arc usefully against the later existentialists’ shared-world emphasis in Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. — connects to: Husserl’s Lebenswelt analysis parallels Weber and Thomas’s sociology — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 1414; Husserl’s idealist turn alienated disciples who favored intersubjective experience — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 166; Thought and ideas arise between self and world, not inside the individual — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 484 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Thought and ideas arise between self and world, not inside the individual #corroborates (0.85) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 484
• Husserl’s Lebenswelt analysis parallels Weber and Thomas’s sociology #qualifies (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1414
• Husserl’s idealist turn alienated disciples who favored intersubjective experience #corroborates (0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 166