Herbert Spiegelberg

Infobox_Philosopher
region = Continental Philosophy
era = 20th-century philosophy
color = #B0C4DE

name = Herbert Spiegelberg
birth = 1904
death = September 6, 1990
school_tradition = Phenomenology
main_interests = Contemporary continental philosophy, History of ideas, Ethics, Phenomenological psychology
influences = Edmund Husserl,
influenced = Growth of phenomenology in North America in second half of 20th century

Herbert Spiegelberg (1904 - September 6, 1990) was an American philosopher who played a prominent role in the advancement of the phenomenogical movement in the United States.

Life

Spiegelberg was born in Strasbourg, in the Alsatian region of northeastern France. He studied at the universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg, and Munich, where he encountered Edmund Husserl and many others in the vanguard of the European phenomenological movement. He received his Ph.D. in 1928 from the University of Munich. His doctoral dissertation was written under the direction of the phenomenologist Alexander Pfänder and was titled "Gesetz und Sittengesetz" ("Law and Morality").

In 1937 Spiegelberg left the continent and studied for a year in England before immigrating to the United States. In the U. S., he taught first at Swarthmore College and then at Lawrence University, which later awarded him an honorary doctoral degree.

In 1953-54 and 1955-56 he received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation for the preparation of the first edition of his landmark historical survey, "The Phenomenological Movement: A Historical Introduction".

In 1963, he relocated to Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and remained there until his retirement as Emeritus Professor in 1971. He also served as visiting professor at the universities of Michigan and Southern California and as Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Munich.

Spiegelberg conducted five influential workshops in phenomenology, during the summers of 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, and 1972. The first workshop was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation and the second by a grant from the Monsanto Corporation.

In 1981 Washington University established a [http://artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/history/lectures.htm series of lectures in phenomenology] in his honor.

Herbert Spiegelberg died of leukemia, at the age of 86, at his home in St. Louis Missouri. His collected papers are available in the [http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/spiegelberg/spiegelberg.html archives of the Washington University Libraries] .

Philosophy

Spiegelberg played a major role in the development of interest in phenomenology in America.

Major works

Books

* cite book
title=The Socratic enigma; a collection of testimonies through twenty-four centuries
others = edited, with an introduction by Herbert Spiegelberg, in collaboration with Bayard Quincy Morgan
publisher=Bobbs-Merrill
location = Indianapolis
year = 1964

* cite book
title=The Phenomenological Movement: A Historical Introduction
publisher=Nijhoff
location = The Hague
year = 1960 (2 vols)

:* cite book
title=2nd edition
publisher=Nijhoff
location = The Hague
year = 1965 (2 vols)

:* cite book
title = 3rd edition
others=with the collaboration of Karl Schuhmann
publisher=Nijhoff
location = The Hague
year = 1982 768 pages. ISBN 9024725356

* cite book
title=Phenomenology in psychology and psychiatry; a historical introduction
publisher=Northwestern University Press
location = Evanston, Illinois
year = 1972 411 pages. ISBN 0810103575

* cite book
title=Doing Phenomenology: Essays On And In Phenomenology
publisher=Nijhoff
location = The Hague
year = 1975 290 pages. ISBN 9024717256

* cite book
title=The Context Of The Phenomenological Movement
publisher=Nijhoff
location = The Hague
year = 1981 239 pages.

* cite book
title=Steppingstones Toward an Ethics for Fellow Existers: Essays 1944-1983
publisher=Nijhoff
location =The Hague
year = 1986 337 pages. ISBN 9024729637

Translations

* cite book
last= Pfänder
first= Alexander
others = translated, with an introduction and supplementary essays by Herbert Spiegelberg
title= Phenomenology of willing and motivation and other phaenomenologica
publisher=Northwestern University Press
location = Evanston, Illinois
year = 1967 98 pages

econdary sources

* cite book
title=Phenomenological Perspectives: Historical And Systematic Essays In Honor Of Herbert Spiegelberg
publisher=Nijhoff
location = The Hague
year = 1975 279 pages. ISBN 9024717019

ee also

Phenomenology