Postcard from Edmund Husserl written 02.11.1933

Author Edmund Husserl

Category foreign researchers, incoming correspondence

Archive The Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences

Date of creation 2.11.1933

Reference code in archive Biblioteka PAU

Resource type postcard

Subject matter didactic issues, personal issues, publication issues

Field phenomenology, philosophy

Tags #bequest, #Cartesian Meditations, #Daves Hicks, #didactic work, #Edmund Husserl, #Eugene Fink, #George Berkeley, #George Stout, #Husserl's students, #Ludwig Landgrebe, #phenomenological cell, #philosophy in Poland, #political situation, #University of Aberdeen, #University of Warsaw

Freibg. i.B., 2.XI.33

Dear Friend,

Thank you for your k[ind] letter. I wrote to Hicks and I will immediately inform you when I receive a reply. Do you know his last book on Berkeley? Of course, you have to take that into account (Berkeley by G. Daves Hicks, Ernest Benn Ltd, London, 1932, p. 336).71

I read in the paper that the University of Warsaw was dissolved!72 Just be patient and seek comfort in philosophy. One thing remains true: you are the only real philosopher of this time in Poland. I continue to organize and think through my “bequest.” Concerning the copy of the Med[itations], there is no hurry, I need it occasionally for educational purposes. Currently, we have an English B.A. with us who was recommended by the old Stout-Aberdeen. F[ink] and I are giving him lessons. Last semester, an intelligent Czech from Prague was here and made great progress. Landgrebe is habilitating in Prague; hence, there is a phen[omenological] cell – as in Vienna. Best regards to all of you.

In a hurry, your old friend, E. Husserl

Address: G. Daves Hicks, 9 Cranmer Road, Cambridge England