In this episode, we interview Professor Edward Baring on the relationship between religion and Phenomenology in the early 20th century. Why did Phenomenology come to dominate European philosophy, and what did Catholicism have to do with it? What made Phenomenology a useful philosophy for religious thinkers? Following the war, why was Germany such a fertile place for existentialist thought? And what was the impact of this religious legacy upon later thinking?

Edward Baring is Associate Professor of History and Human Values at Princeton University.