Background
Spiegelberg, Herbert was born on May 18, 1904 in Strasbourg, France. Came to the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1944. Son of Wilhelm and Elisabeth (von Recklinghausen) Spiegelberg.
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This is an unashamed collection of studies grown, but not planned before hand, whose belated unity sterns from an unconscious pattern ofwhich I was not aware at the time ofwriting. I call it "unashamed" not only because I have made no effort to patch up this collection by completely new pieces, but also because there seems to me nothing shamefully wrong about following up some loose ends left dangling from my main study of the Phenomenological Movement which I had to cut off from the body of my account in order to preserve its unity and proportion. This disc1aimer does not mean that there is no connection among the pieces he re assembled. They belong together, while not requiring consecutive reading, as attempts to establish common ground 1lnd lines of communication between the Phenomenological Movement and related enterprises in philo sophy. They are not put together arbitrarily, but because ofintrinsic affinities to phenomenology. This does not mean an attempt to blur its edges. But since they are growing edges, any boundaries cannot be drawn sharply without interfering with the phenomena. Nevertheless, in the end the figure of the Phenomenological Movement should stand out more distinctIy as the text against its surrounding context, ofwhich these studies are to provide some ofthe comparative and historical background. This is why I gave to this collection the titIe "The Context ofthe Phenomenological Movement" in contrast to the central "text" as contained in my historical introduction to this movement.
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The present attempt to introduce the general philosophical reader to the Phenomenological Movement by way of its history has itself a history which is pertinent to its objective. It may suitably be opened by the following excerpts from a review which Herbert W. Schneider of Columbia University, the Head of the Division for Internc. . tional Cultural Cooperation, Department of Cultural Activities of Unesco from 1953 to 56, wrote in 1950 from France: The influence of Husser! has revolutionized continental philosophies, not because his philosophy has become dominant, but because any philosophy now seeks to accommodate itself to, and express itself in, phenomenological method. It is the sine qua non of critical respectability. In America, on the contrary, phenomenology is in its infancy. The aver age American student of philosophy, when he picks up a recent volume of philosophy published on the continent of Europe, must first learn the "tricks" of the phenomenological trade and then translate as best he can the real import of what is said into the kind of analysis with which he is familiar. . . . . . . No doubt, American education will gradually take account of the spread of phenomenological method and terminology, but until it does, American readers of European philosophy have a severe handicap; and this applies not only to existentialism but to almost all current philosophicalliterature.
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Spiegelberg, Herbert was born on May 18, 1904 in Strasbourg, France. Came to the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1944. Son of Wilhelm and Elisabeth (von Recklinghausen) Spiegelberg.
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. In 1937 Spiegelberg left the continent and studied for a year in England before immigrating to the United States.
His doctoral dissertation was written under the direction of the phenomenologist Alexander Pfänder and was titled Gesetz und Sittengesetz (Law and Morality). 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, 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. The first workshop was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation and the second by a grant from the Monsanto Company. Herbert Spiegelberg died of leukemia, at the age of 86, at his home in St. Louis, Missouri.
His collected papers are available in the archives of the Washington University Libraries. translated, with an introduction and supplementary essays by Herbert Spiegelberg.
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Spiegelberg’s work comprises historical studies within phenomenology; the theory and practice of phenomenology and, perhaps above all. extensive studies in the philosophy of ethics. He was also a scholar and translator of the work of the Munich phenomenologist. Alexander Pfänder, who was perhaps his main philosophical influence. His reputation as the ‘historian of phenomenology’ was secured by his extraordinarily influential work. The Phenomenological Movemem (1960). It contains detailed expositions of method, principles and terminology and histories of Husserl, the Göttingen, Freiburg and Munich phenomenological circles and of subsequent developments in Germany, France and worldwide. The Context of the Phenomenological Movement (1981) is a collection of 15 articles from 1936-1973 containing further information on the historical and philosophical connections between Husserl, Brentan, Peirce, Pfänder, Austin, James and Wittgenstein. Phenomenology in Psychology and Psychiatry (1972) is a general account of how phenomenology has been applied by psychologists and psychiatrists in Europe and North America, and a detailed account of the work of ten of the leading figures in the field. Doing Phenomenology (1975), a collection of essays of 1940-1970, is not only a redeployment of the descriptive and eidetic methods of his Munich dissertation, it also answers the need of actually doing phenomenology rather than just talking about it. In 1935 he published two important ethical works: Antirelativismus—a critique of the relativism and scepticism of values and of moral obligations, and his Gesetz und Sittengesetz—structural-analytical and historical preliminary studies towards a law-free ethics. The latter was complemented by Sollen und Dürfen [Ought and May]—a philosophical foundation of ethical rights and duties. His Steppingstones (1986) is a collection of 16 articles arranged in a thematic progression. Roughly, the ‘steppingstoncs’ are: the discovery of self, the transposal of self and other, human dignity and equality, and global ethics.
Member American Association of University Professors, American Philosophical Association, Metaphys. Society, Phi Beta Kappa (honorary).
Married Eldora Haskell, July 6, 1944. Children: Gwen Elisabeth Spiegelberg Butler, Lynne Sylvia Spiegelberg Morgan.