Word: busserl
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...under the spell of Phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, who bucked the relativistic trend in German philosophy by reaffirming the existence of objective truth and of a knowable world, i.e., phenomena. Edith's friends teased her, in rhyme, for thinking only of Husserl while other Austrian girls were dreaming of Busserl (Austrian patois for kiss). At Breslau University and later at Göttingen, she made such a mark with the clarity and precision of her thought that Philosopher Husserl asked her to become his assistant at Freiburg. She soon took her place as an equal beside the city...
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