Über das Verhältnis der Husserlschen Phänomenologie zu David Hume (dissertation by Friedrich Sauer)

What it is

This is a German doctoral dissertation by Friedrich Sauer, digitized by the Internet Archive from a Columbia University Library microfilm. The catalogue lists the date as 1839, but this is a catalogue error. The printed offprint is from 1930 and the title page is dated 1930. The work compares the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl with the philosophy of David Hume.

Why it matters

This is a later scholarly study of Hume. It shows how twentieth-century philosophers read Hume in light of new ideas such as Husserl's phenomenology. Students can use it to see how Hume's ideas were still discussed long after his death.

Look closer

• Why might a scholar in 1930 compare Hume with a philosopher like Husserl?
• Which parts of the scanned record show the date, and why might the catalogue date be wrong?
• What does a study of Hume written by someone else reveal, and what does it leave out compared with Hume's own writing?