Husserl saw himself as a radical leader whose students were not keeping up

Evidence

But Husserl did not see himself as some sort of old guard, from whom the new generation must naturally diverge and grow. On the contrary, he thought that he was becoming ever more radical while the youngsters were not keeping up. He saw himself as ‘an appointed leader without followers, that is, without collaborators in the radical new spirit of transcendental phenomenology’. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 228

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Husserl backed Heidegger’s career hoping to restore ideological loyalty but lost the succession — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 225; Husserl’s idealist turn alienated disciples who favored intersubjective experience — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 166; Husserl recognized Being and Time as partly directed against his own philosophy — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 223 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Husserl backed Heidegger’s career hoping to restore ideological loyalty but lost the succession #expands (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 225
• Husserl came to see Heidegger as a rival to be destroyed philosophically #expands (0.82) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 250
• Husserl recognized Being and Time as partly directed against his own philosophy #complicates (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 223
• Husserl attacked Heidegger as remaining in the natural attitude #exemplifies (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 229
• Husserl’s Freiburg school operated as a demanding cult of devoted assistants #expands (0.78) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 132
• Husserl’s idealist turn alienated disciples who favored intersubjective experience #expands (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 166
• Husserl’s oeuvre was scattered because he constantly abandoned projects for more uncertain ones #qualifies (0.70) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 133