Husserl’s posthumous project traveled to Belgium with his ashes and furniture

Evidence

With her came a huge cargo: a container of her furniture, the full Husserl library in sixty boxes, her husband’s ashes in an urn, and a portrait of him, which Franz Brentano and his wife Ida von Lieben had jointly painted as an engagement present before the Husserls’ marriage. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 422

Categorization

  • CANDY: A vivid, faintly comic image: the towering philosophical archive shipped alongside an urn of ashes and an engagement portrait painted by Brentano.