What are some of Edmund Husserl's key ideas?

Question

This is not my homework question!!

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Answer 1

Husserl's "key ideas" are too complicated to explain in a forum such as this. It sounds like you prefer doing no "homework" of your own. Start here:
http://www.ditext.com/encyc/frame.html

Answer 2

http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/h/u.htm#husserl-edmund


The years of his teaching in Halle (1887-1901) were later seen by Husserl to have been his most difficult. He often doubted his ability as a philosopher and believed he would have to give up his occupation. The problem of uniting a psychological analysis of consciousness with a philosophical grounding of formal mathematics and logic seemed insoluble. But from this crisis there emerged the conviction that the philosophical grounding of logic and mathematics must commence with an analysis of the experience that lies before all formal thinking. Husserl made an intensive study of the British Empiricists, such as Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and J S Mill, and the logic and semantics stemming from this tradition, especially the logic of Mill, and studied the attempts at a "psycho-logic" grounding of logic then being made in Germany.




He continued his attempt to clarify the relation between psychological and phenomenological analysis of consciousness and considered the grounding of logic in the Formal and Transcendental Logic (1929).