An exceptional collection of letters, postcards,original writings, and photographsThe First World Warwitnessed an unprecedented mobilization of philosophers: as soldiers at thefront, as public figures on the home front, as nurses in field hospitals; asmothers and wives, sons and fathers in wartime. In Germany, the war irrupted inthe midst of the rapid growth of Edmund Husserl's phenomenological movement –widely considered one of the most significant philosophical movements intwentieth century thought. Philosophersat the Front offers a documentary history of phenomenology in the FirstWorld War. Through an exceptional collection of primary source materials(letters, postcards, original writings, photographs) from the Husserl Archivesin Leuven, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and the Archives of the Universityof Göttingen, the complex narratives of how the war affected the lives and thoughtof central figures in the phenomenological movement are charted. Key figuressuch as Edmund Husserl, his sons Wolfgang and Gerhart, Max Scheler, EdithStein, Adolf Reinach, Martin Heidegger, and others are included in thiscollection of materials.The volume includes reproductions of originalmaterial, as well as German transcription of all texts and their Englishtranslation.