The 1st World War brought to light a mobilization of philosophers never before seen. This happened in different ways: as soldiers in the front; as public figures; as nurses in field hospitals; as mothers and wives; fathers and sons.
In the case of Germany, the war broke out amid the rapid growth of the phenomenological movement led by Edmund Husserl.
Philosophers at the front offers an account of the phenomenology during this period through an extraordinary collection of materials, such as photos, postcards, and letters. Extracted from the University of Göttingen, the Husserl Archives and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. These reflect the complex narratives of how the war affected their lives and their thinking.
Included in this collection are vital figures such as Edmund Husserl, Adolf Reinach, Edith Stein, Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, and others.
The volume includes reproductions of original material, as well as the German transcription of all the texts and their English translations.
