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Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher whose Being and Time (1927) made the question of Being central to 20th-century continental philosophy.
Edmund Husserl was a German philosopher who founded phenomenology, launching the movement with Logical Investigations, published in 1900-1901.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenologist whose Phenomenology of Perception (1945) emphasized embodiment and lived experience.
Steven Holl is an American architect known for phenomenological design, including Seattle University's Chapel of St. Ignatius, completed in 1997.
Emmanuel Levinas was a Lithuanian-born French philosopher notable for making ethics a first philosophy in Totality and Infinity, published in 1961.
Max Scheler was a German phenomenologist, known for value ethics and Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values, published in 1913 and 1916.
Watsuji Tetsuro was a Japanese philosopher and ethicist, notable for Climate and Culture (1935) and an ethics of aidagara, or human relationality.
Edith Stein was a German Jewish phenomenologist and Catholic philosopher, known for work on empathy and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1998.
