Levering, Bas & Van Manen, Max (2002) Phenomenological Anthropology in the Netherlands and Flanders

In: Tymieniecka, Teresa (ed.)

Phenomenology World-Wide.

Dordrecht: Kluwer Press, (pp. 274-286)

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One of the first to apply phenomenological method in the raised and addressed in different ways by the existential- Netherlands was the Philosopher and linguist Hendrick J. ism of Camus, the Marxism of Sartre, and the ethical Pos (1898-1955). He invited Husserl in 1928 to give the philosophy of Levinas. Finally, some Dutch philosophers so-called Amsterdamer Vortrage (Amsterdam Lectures) seemed especially capable of translating and introducing on phenomenological psychology. But it was not until the sometimes difficult works of French and German after World War II that phenomenology became more philosophical thought to the humanities and the social deeply established in Dutch philosophy. The primary sciences. Some scholars, such as William A. Luypen, Jan sway of influence now came from the south, from France. Hendrik van den Berg, Adriaan Peperzak, and Stephan Strasser, were translated into various languages, partly due to their ability to make the French and German tra- ditions accessible and partly because they did this in Heidegger’s influence was important, but it was espe- cially the French existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Gabriel Marcel, Emmanuel Levinas, and in particular Maurice Merleau-Ponty who dominated the philosophical scene in the Netherlands and Flanders.