Husserl's Ideen

Lester Embree (PhD, New School for Social Research, 1972) is William F. Dietrich Eminent Scholar in Philosophy, Florida Atlantic University. He was for 20 years President of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc. and precipitated the founding of the Organization of Phenomenological Organizations, among other things. He led the editing of the Encyclopedia of Phenomenology (1997), a number of other volumes, and most recently the Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics (2010) and has authored Fenomenologia Continuada (2007), Environment Technology Justification (2008), Reflective Analysis, 2nd ed.(2011), Animism, Adumbration, Willing, and Wisdom (2012), and Schutzian Theory of Cultural Science (forthcoming). He is chiefly interested in the theory of the cultural disciplines, theoretical archaeology in particular. Thomas Nenon (PhD, University of Freiburg 1983) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He worked as an editor at the Husserl-Archives and instructor at the University of Freiburg before coming to University of Memphis. His teaching and research interests include Husserl, Heidegger, Kant and German Idealism, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of the social sciences. He is currently the President of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology and has served as review editor for Husserl Studies, as a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and as Director of the Center for the Humanities at the University of Memphis, and where he currently also serves as the Vice Provost for Assessment, Institutional Research and Reporting. He is the author of Objektivität und endliche Erkenntnis (Alber: Freiburg 1986), co-editor of Husserliana Vols. XXV and XXVII, editor or co-editor of six other books, and editor of over forty scholarly articles. His current research interests include Husserl's theories of personhood and subjectivity and Kant and Hegel's practicalphilosophy.