Maurice Natanson | |
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Born | Maurice Alexander Natanson November 26, 1924 |
Died | August 16, 1996 | (aged 71)
Alma mater | |
Spouse | Lois Natanson |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Phenomenology |
Institutions | |
Doctoral advisor | Alfred Schutz |
Other academic advisors | James Burnham |
Doctoral students |
Maurice Alexander Natanson (November 26, 1924 – August 16, 1996) was an American philosopher "who helped introduce the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Edmund Husserl in the United States".[2] He was a student of Alfred Schutz at the New School for Social Research and helped popularize Schutz' work from the 1960s onward.[1]
During his career he taught at the University of Houston, the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research,[3] the University of North Carolina, Yale University, the University of California at Santa Cruz where he helped establish the History of Consciousness graduate program. He was a visiting professor at the Pennsylvania State University and University of California, Berkeley.[3]
A captivating speaker,[1] Natanson delivered the inaugural Alfred Schutz Memorial Lecture, "Alfred Schutz: Philosopher and Social Scientist"[4] (1995) and the Aron Gurwitsch Memorial Lecture "Illusion and Irreality"[5] (1983) at the annual meetings of the Society for Phenomenology & the Human Sciences in 1995.[6]
Natanson was born in Manhattan and raised in Brooklyn. He died from prostate cancer on August 16, 1996, at age 71.[2]
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