This ebook offers the striking correspondence among Alfred Schutz and Aron Gurwitsch, emigre philosophers stimulated through Edmund Husserl, who fled Europe at the eve of global warfare II and eventually turned seminal figures within the institution of phenomenology within the usa. Their deep and lasting friendship grew out in their mutual main issue with the query of the connections among technology and the life-world.
Interwoven with philosophical alternate is the 2 students' come upon with the surprising difficulties of yank educational life―what Gurwitsch referred to as the "passology" of exile. except its marvelous and relocating portrait of 2 distinctive males, the correspondence holds wealthy importance for present matters in philosophy and the social sciences.
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