Marvin Farber and the beginnings of the American phenomenology

Abstract

The article analyses the main milestones on the way of Husserl’s transcendental
philosophy into the world of American philosophy. Phenomenology becomes
a respected and acknowledged methodology within humanities due to the
theoretical and organizational efforts of Marvin Farber, one of Husserl’s shortterm disciples in the mid-1920s. In his criticism Farber gradually comes to a
methodologically more and more conscious standpoint that moves from a logical
analysis of phenomenology’s presuppositions to naturalism, finally ending in the
adoption of a Marxist standpoint toward phenomenology.

Keywords: phenomenology, M. Faber, E. Husserl, reception, American philosophy, history of philosophy.