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New York City, New York (state)>New York, US19961611|26}}|death_place = Santa Cruz, California, US Lincoln Memorial University New York University > New School for Social Research}}|spouse = Lois NatansonPhenomenology (philosophy)>Phenomenology University of Houston The New School>New School for Social Research University of North Carolina > University of California, Santa Cruz | Yale University}}|doctoral_advisor = Alfred Schutz|academic_advisors = James Burnham Judith Butler | Lewis Gordon}}|main_interests = Martin Buber Edmund Husserl > Søren Kierkegaard Jean-Paul Sartre > Alfred Schutz}}|influenced =}}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".WEB,weblink The New York Times, Maurice Natanson, A Philosopher, 71, 1996-08-20, 2011-08-25, He was a student of Alfred Schutz at the New School for Social Research and helped popularize Schutz' work from the 1960s onward.During his career he taught at the University of Houston, the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research,BOOK, The Journeying Self: A Study in Philosophy and Social Role,weblink registration, Maurice Natanson, Addison Wesley, 1970, Reading, Massachusetts, 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.A captivating speaker, Natanson delivered the inaugural Alfred Schutz Memorial Lecture, "Alfred Schutz: Philosopher and Social Scientist"WEB,weblink Alfred Schutz Memorial Lecture, Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, 2011-08-25,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110528081553weblink">weblink 2011-05-28, dead, (1995) and the Aron Gurwitsch Memorial Lecture "Illusion and Irreality"WEB, Aron Gurwitsch Memorial Lecture, Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology,weblink 2011-08-25,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110528081700weblink">weblink 2011-05-28, dead, (1983) at the annual meetings of the Society for Phenomenology & the Human Sciences in 1995.WEB,weblink Society for Phenomenology & the Human Sciences: A Brief History, George Psthasas, 2011-08-26,weblink" title="archive.today/20120717021708weblink">weblink 2012-07-17, dead, Natanson was born in Manhattan and raised in Brooklyn. He died from prostate cancer on August 16, 1996, at age 71.

Works

Natanson was the author of numerous works including:

• A Critique of Jean-Paul Sartre's Ontology (1951)
• Literature, Philosophy and the Social Sciences (1962)
• The Journeying Self: A Study in Philosophy and Social Role (1970)
• Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks (1973)
• Phenomenology, Role and Reason (1974)
• Anonymity: A Study in the Philosophy of Alfred Schutz (1986)
• The Erotic Bird: Phenomenology in Literature, (1998) and editor of Essays in Phenomenology (1966)
• Phenomenology and the Social Sciences (volumes 1 and 2) (1973).

Natanson also edited The Problem of Social Reality, volume I of the collected papers of Alfred Schutz. The Husserl book won the National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion in 1974.WEB, Maurice Natanson, Judith Butler, The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 50, 1997,weblink WEB,weblink National Book Foundation, National Book Foundation, 2011-08-25, National Book Award Winners: 1950 – 2009, A Festschrift in honor of Natanson, The Prism of the Self, published in 1995 (edited by Steven Calt Crowell), includes contributions from Fred Kersten, Lester Embree, Lewis Gordon, Thomas Luckmann, Richard Zaner, Nobuo Kazashi, Michael McDuffie, Gail Weiss, and Judith Butler.BOOK, Amazon.com, Prism of the Self, 30 June 1995, Springer, 0792335465,

References

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External links

• Photographs of Maurice Natanson from the UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections

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