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Gerda Walther: A Life in Phenomenology
By (author) Antonio Calcagno
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Exploring the rich phenomenological and psychological insights of Gerda Walther This is the first major study of Gerda Walther (1897–1977), an important but underappreciated figure in the early phenomenological movement and one of the founding members of the coeducational Freiburg Phenomenological Society. Walther saw herself, along with Hedwig Conrad Martius and Edith Stein, as a student of the phenomenological movement charged with the preservation of its philosophical legacy and the extension of its practice. As Antonio Calcagno elucidates in this learned but accessible biographical account, she served as an important bridge between the Freiburg school of phenomenology, marked by Edmund Husserl's idealism, and the realist branch that emerged in Munich, where she completed her studies with Alexander Pfänder. Her work has remained little known, however, especially to English-language readers. Calcagno provides a comprehensive picture of Walther's philosophical corpus and ideas, from her early investigations to her later writings, while highlighting the originality of her own phenomenological work. He shows how she challenged certain key claims of phenomenology and provided unique solutions to the problems she encountered. The phenomenology that Walther leaves us with is deeply marked by her emphasis on the importance of psyche, spirit, and personhood for achieving a phenomenological methodology and understanding. We find in her work a rich phenomenological psychology that explores not only the limit phenomena of the discipline but also the deep structure of inner psychic life framed in personalist terms.
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Publisher | Northwestern University Press
Published date | 16 Nov 2026
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 200
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 979-8-8994-8098-0
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BISAC | philosophy / movements / existentialism
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