Marvin Farber and the beginnings of the American phenomenology

The article analyses the main milestones on the way of Husserl’s transcendental philosophy into the world of American philosophy. Phenomenology becomes a respected and acknowledged methodology within humanities due to the theoretical and organizational efforts of Marvin Farber, one of Husserl’s shortterm disciples in the mid-1920s. In his criticism Farber gradually comes to a methodologically more and more conscious standpoint that moves from a logical analysis of phenomenology’s presuppositions to naturalism, finally ending in the adoption of a Marxist standpoint toward phenomenology.