Husserl declined emigration despite an offered American post

Evidence

The Husserls’ children, Elli and Gerhart, emigrated to the United States. Edmund Husserl himself was offered a post at the University of Southern California in November 1933; he could have become a Californian. I find it strangely easy to imagine him there, as neat as ever in his suit, strolling with a cane beneath the palm trees and clear white sun — just as many other intellectual European émigrés did. But he was not prepared to leave the country that was his home. Malvine Husserl stuck by him, equally defiant. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 320

Categorization

• SEED: Counterfactual essay: what would phenomenology have become if Husserl had accepted the USC post in 1933?