Masaryk’s patronage made Prague a phenomenological research center

Evidence

Prague had grown into something of a centre for phenomenology through the early twentieth century, partly because of Tomáš Masaryk — Czechoslovakia’s president, and the friend who had persuaded Husserl to study with Franz Brentano. He died in 1937, and was spared seeing the disaster that befell his country, but in the meantime he had done much to encourage the development of phenomenology and had helped other former Brentano students to collect their teacher’s papers in a Prague-based archive. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 408

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Brentano as Husserl’s teacher and to phenomenology’s Prague-UCLA later split; echoes the intellectual-migration theme of the whole book. — connects to: Husserl’s archive narrowly escaped moving to Prague before the war — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 407; Phenomenology carried political moral weight in Czechoslovakia alongside existentialism — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 920

Broader Connections

• Phenomenology carried political moral weight in Czechoslovakia alongside existentialism #expands (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 920