The famous Encyclopaedia Britannica phenomenology article was a joint, failed Husserl-Heidegger effort

Evidence

62 Encyclopaedia Britannica: Husserl, ’ “Phenomenology” (Draft B of the Encyclopaedia Britannica Article), with Heidegger’s Letter to Husserl’, in Kisiel & Sheehan, Becoming Heidegger, 304–28. A fuller version with variant drafts: Husserl, ‘The Encyclopaedia Britannica article (1927–28)’, in Husserl, Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology and the Confrontation with Heidegger (1927–1931), 35–196, including introduction by Sheehan relating the story of their collaboration. The entry, tr. C. V. Salmon, was published in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 14th edn (London: Encyclopaedia Britannica Co., 1929). On not expressing themselves clearly: see Heidegger, Letters to his Wife, 108 (Martin to Elfride Heidegger, 5 Feb. 1927), and Kisiel & Sheehan, Becoming Heidegger, 402 (Husserl to Pfänder, 1 Jan. 1931). — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1246

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the Husserl-Heidegger collaboration and rift narrated in the main text of earlier chapters. — connects to: Husserl and Heidegger’s 1927 encyclopedia collaboration collapsed from mutual incomprehension — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 224; Heidegger’s break with Husserl hinged on what each bracketed out — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 220; The Sartre-Merleau-Ponty break mirrored the earlier Husserl-Heidegger schism — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 836

Broader Connections

• Heidegger’s break with Husserl hinged on what each bracketed out #expands (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 220
• The Sartre-Merleau-Ponty break mirrored the earlier Husserl-Heidegger schism #responds-to (0.70) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 836