Maurice Natanson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maurice Natanson

American philosopher

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1924

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 16-Aug-1996

Profession: sociologist, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Maurice Alexander Natanson (1924–1996) was an American philosopher "who helped introduce the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Edmund Husserl in the United States".
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, 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" (1995) and the Aron Gurwitsch Memorial Lecture "Illusion and Irreality" (1983) at the annual meetings of the Society for Phenomenology & the Human Sciences in 1995.