Word: phenomenologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earle's scholarly interest in existentialism took form in 1947, when he spent a year studying under Gaston Berger, a leading European phenomenologist. Existentialism was "very much in the air" in Europe at that time, and Earle went on to receive his degree from the University of Aix-Marseilles in 1948. Before going to France, he studied at the University of Chicago. "I studied in the classical tradition," he comments. "Chicago is a fine place for that sort of scholarship, but it does not have a very creative atmosphere...
...Breslau, Silesia into a prosperous orthodox Jewish family, Edith was the youngest of seven children and the favorite of her stern, devout mother. After an intellectually precocious childhood, she decided to be an atheist at 13, remained one until she was 21. Later she fell 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...
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