An Extraordinary Dawning of the Intellect

April 8, 1859. Reflecting on the date of Edmund Husserl’s birth can fill one with wonder. Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, his language never went out of fashion, and his questions did much less; and even today, well into the twenty-first century, students from the four corners of the world wrestle with his writings, and with those of his closest students and interlocutors, just the way you would with a rather difficult master who has introduced a new way of doing philosophy.