This first volume of Husserlian Legacies: Themes for the 21st Century focuses on hitherto underexamined dimensions of Husserl’s philosophical thinking and in particular, values and love. Texts in this series draw from the variety of Husserl’s rich original works; they are selected and arranged with the support of the Husserl Archives, Leuven. The texts are made available in English and are primarily targeted to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars.
This volume helps the reader both to investigate the themes of value and love and to gauge their role in Husserl’s reflections on related topics: his analysis of philosophy, the sciences as vocational tasks, the emotions and the community of love, as well as his personalistic reformulation of the categorical imperative. The texts gathered, edited, and translated in this volume have far-reaching implications, ranging from axiology and individual and social ethics to the philosophy of emotions, action theory, and the philosophy of science.
Sara Heinämaa is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä and an Academy Professor (2017–2021). She specializes in classical and contemporary phenomenology, existentialism, and the history of philosophy, and has published extensively in these fields, especially on normativity, emotion, embodiment, and intersubjectivity. She is co-author of Birth, Death, and Femininity (Indiana UP, 2010), and author of Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and has co-edited several volumes, including Contemporary Phenomenologies of Normativity (Routledge, 2022), Phenomenology as Critique (Routledge 2022), and Phenomenology and the Transcendental (Routledge, 2014) and Consciousness (Springer, 2007).
Anthony J. Steinbock is Professor of Philosophy, at Stony Brook University and Director, of the Phenomenology Research Center. He works in the areas of phenomenology, social ontology, aesthetics, and religious philosophy. His publications include works on generative phenomenology, religious experience, and emotions. He is the author of six books, most recently, Knowing by Heart: Loving as Participation and Critique (Northwestern University Press, 2021) and is the translator of Edmund Husserl’s Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Synthesis (Kluwer, 2001). He is Editor-in-Chief, of Continental Philosophy Review, and General Editor, of Northwestern University Press “SPEP” Series.
Andrew D. Barrette is currently an Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Philosophy Department at Boston College. He wrote his dissertation on Edmund Husserl’s analyses of inquiry and history at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. During that research, he studied at the Husserl-Archives in Leuven, first as a Fulbright Scholar, then again as an International Research Fellow. He then did post-doctorate work at the Lonergan Institute and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, both at Boston College.
