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Lester Eugene Embree
January 9, 1938 ~ January 19, 2017 (age 79) 79 Years Old Light a Candle
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A candle was lit by Jenny Poter
on January 12, 2021 2:59 PM
A candle was lit by Michael Lazarin, Ph.D.
on July 31, 2017 9:50 AM
Message from J. N. Mohanty
March 20, 2017 11:30 PM
I just found out today that Lester has passed. I am so so sorry to hear this. He was a great man. He and I had so many discussions over the years and have enjoyed a long friendship with great mutual respect and admiration. Our condolences to his family from my family.
Message from bob heller
March 20, 2017 5:32 PM
Les was one of my friends who I have not seen since New Orleans, early 1960's and once or twice in New York. But he was important in my life for the time together. Every so often I would think about Les and finally, a few years ago, I googled and located him, and we spoke on the phone. I am planning to go to Florida and again googled him to discover his death. I am sad not to have the chance to renew that earlier friendship.
A candle was lit by A candle was lit by Nannetta Durnell-Uwechue (FAU)
on March 1, 2017 12:57 PM
A candle was lit by Alexander Schimmelpenninck
on February 20, 2017 7:05 AM
Message from Alexander Schimmelpenninck
February 20, 2017 7:04 AM
I am deeply saddened by the news that Lester Embree passed away last month. Lester was a good friend and a great supporter of our publishing program. He was the driving force for the set up of the Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, the series Contributions to Phenomenology and many other projects. We spent many happy times at his house in Florida, my home in the Netherlands and at numerous conferences and other travels. His kind and warm personality is sorely missed.
Alexander Schimmelpenninck
Alexander Schimmelpenninck
A candle was lit by Roberto Walton
on February 15, 2017 2:26 PM
A candle was lit by Luis Rabanaque & Marisa Calello
on February 14, 2017 1:31 PM
A candle was lit by Maxim Uybadin
on February 10, 2017 1:17 PM
Message from Kwok-ying LAU, Professor, Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
February 6, 2017 12:28 PM
Lester Embree is a great friend of phenomenological philosophers in East-Asia. I met him for the first time in April 1996 in the first international conference on phenomenology organized at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Yet his name entered my mind almost 20 years earlier as the editor and English translator of the French phenomenological philosopher Paul Ricoeur's book "Husserl: An Analysis of his Phenomenology". Friendship between us was built up immediately since our first meeting in Hong Kong. During the next twenty years we met regularly in international conferences in different parts of the world, such as Hong Kong, Beijing, Florida, Prague, Lima, Tokyo, Seoul, Kaohsiung, Segovia, etc. During a conference organized by Lester in May 2002 in Florida, he helped to initiate the regional research net-work "P.E.A.CE"--Phenomenology for East-Asian CirclE--as a response to the global rise of violence after 911 and to promote intercultural understanding through phenomenological philosophy against xenophobia. Lester Embree will be remembered by East-Asian phenomenologists.
A candle was lit by Kwok-ying LAU
on February 6, 2017 11:25 AM
A candle was lit by Sam Cocks
on February 6, 2017 8:01 AM
A candle was lit by Charles Roberts
on February 3, 2017 5:16 PM
A candle was lit by Gabby Denier
on February 2, 2017 10:35 AM
Message from José María Muñoz Terrón
January 31, 2017 4:19 AM
Hasta siempre, Lester.
A candle was lit by José María Muñoz Terrón
on January 31, 2017 4:16 AM
Message from Grup d'Estudis Fenomenològics/Societat Catalana de Filosofia
January 29, 2017 6:59 PM
Els teus amics catalans de Barcelona no oblidarem mai la teva saviesa i la teva inestimable amistat. Et portem en el record..
A candle was lit by Grup d'Estudis Fenomenològics/Societat Catalana de
on January 29, 2017 6:56 PM
A candle was lit by Robert C. Scharff
on January 27, 2017 11:30 AM
Message from Cristina Salinas Pérez
January 27, 2017 11:16 AM
Querido Colega:
Tu legado sobre la fenomenología me ha inspirado para investigar a través del RA. Me hubiera encantado compartir contigo mi tesis, pero sé que estás más cerca de nuestro Creador ahora y disfrutas de una paz infinita, por lo que sólo me resta alegrarme por ti y seguir estudiando tus publicaciones. Gracias por tus valiosas enseñanzas..
Tu legado sobre la fenomenología me ha inspirado para investigar a través del RA. Me hubiera encantado compartir contigo mi tesis, pero sé que estás más cerca de nuestro Creador ahora y disfrutas de una paz infinita, por lo que sólo me resta alegrarme por ti y seguir estudiando tus publicaciones. Gracias por tus valiosas enseñanzas..
A candle was lit by Cristina Salinas Pérez
on January 27, 2017 11:12 AM
A candle was lit by Luis Canela
on January 26, 2017 6:44 PM
A candle was lit by Elliot Shaw
on January 26, 2017 4:14 PM
Message from Hisashi Nasu
January 26, 2017 2:00 PM
All of my family and I have beautiful and wonderful memories of our time with you in Boca Raton as well as in Tokyo. All of us will keep them and remember YOU forever. I especially would like to my warmest gratitude to YOU for everything which you did for me in Konstanz, Erlangen, Prague, Vienna, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Montreal, and of course in your country and in my country.
A candle was lit by Taina Teran-Campbell
on January 26, 2017 1:59 PM
Message from Hisashi Nasu
January 26, 2017 1:54 PM
All of my family and I have beautiful and wonderful memories of our time with you in Boca Raton as well as in Tokyo. All of us will keep them and remember YOU forever. I especially would like to my warmest gratitude to YOU for everything which you did for me in Konstanz, Erlangen, Prague, Vienna, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Montreal, and of course in your country and in my country.
Message from Ullrich Melle, Husserl Archives Leuven, Belgium
January 26, 2017 6:55 AM
Me and my colleagues from the Husserl Archives in Leuven wish to express our most sincere condolences to the family. We have worked together with Lester most fruitfully for many years on his editorial projects. His determination and enthousiasm was irresistable.
A candle was lit by Ullrich Melle and his colleagues at the H-A Leuven
on January 26, 2017 6:38 AM
A candle was lit by Daniela Lopez
on January 26, 2017 6:36 AM
Message from Jesus M. Díaz Álvarez
January 26, 2017 4:27 AM
Benquerido Lester, agora que partiche para noite mais alá da noite, quero e debo lembrar a tua memoria. Para min sempre fuche coma un deses carballos rexos, fortes e sabios que temos en Galicia. Manuel María, un poeta da terra, escribiu estos versos pensando na sua própria persoa. Eu, agora, nestes tristes momentos, imaxino que fluen da tua boca e interrompo a miña tristura.
Eu sei que son unha árbore:
cecais un carballo
ou un castiñeiro poderoso
ou ainda unha abidueira
que o vento cimbrea e non arrinca.
Escoito a voz da terra
que, amorosa e urxente, me reclama.
Déitome no chao como un
penedo: deixo que o humus
me ensuma no seu seo.
Pro sei que agromarei
en folla verde e tenra
aló na Primavera.
E agardo ilusionado que
o Outono me murche para ser
terra de novo, unha vez máis.
Eu sei que son unha árbore:
cecais un carballo
ou un castiñeiro poderoso
ou ainda unha abidueira
que o vento cimbrea e non arrinca.
Escoito a voz da terra
que, amorosa e urxente, me reclama.
Déitome no chao como un
penedo: deixo que o humus
me ensuma no seu seo.
Pro sei que agromarei
en folla verde e tenra
aló na Primavera.
E agardo ilusionado que
o Outono me murche para ser
terra de novo, unha vez máis.
A candle was lit by Rola & Hassan Fakih
on January 25, 2017 9:41 PM
A candle was lit by Marlene
on January 25, 2017 6:39 PM
Message from James Cunningham
January 25, 2017 5:57 PM
Lester - i salute you as an esteemed colleague and will always remember your kind socks.
A candle was lit by Jamie Cunningham
on January 25, 2017 5:55 PM
Message from Jesús M. Díaz Álvarez
January 25, 2017 4:04 PM
Benquerido Lester, agora que partiche para noite mais alá da noite quero e debo lembrar a tua memoria. Para min sempre fuche coma un deses carballos rexos, fortes e sabios que temos en Galicia. Manuel María, un poeta da terra, escribiu estos versos pensando na sua própria persoa. Eu, agora, nestes tristes momentos, imaxino que fluen da tua boca e interrompo a miña tristura. Descansa en paz, amigo.
Eu sei que son unha árbore:
cecais un carballo
ou un castiñeiro poderoso
ou ainda unha abidueira
que o vento cimbrea e non arrinca.
Escoito a voz da terra
que, amorosa e urxente, me reclama.
Déitome no chao como un
penedo: deixo que o humus
me ensuma no seu seo.
Pro sei que agromarei
en folla verde e tenra
aló na Primavera.
E agardo ilusionado que
o Outono me murche para ser
terra de novo, unha vez máis.
Eu sei que son unha árbore:
cecais un carballo
ou un castiñeiro poderoso
ou ainda unha abidueira
que o vento cimbrea e non arrinca.
Escoito a voz da terra
que, amorosa e urxente, me reclama.
Déitome no chao como un
penedo: deixo que o humus
me ensuma no seu seo.
Pro sei que agromarei
en folla verde e tenra
aló na Primavera.
E agardo ilusionado que
o Outono me murche para ser
terra de novo, unha vez máis.
Message from Omar (Spain)
January 25, 2017 3:28 PM
I knew this man in Segovia 2011. There, a few minutes of conversation with him were enough to receive his dedicated dictionary and a warmed vibrations towards phenomenology. Thanks forever.
Message from Dermot Moran
January 25, 2017 3:04 PM
My deepest condolences to the Embree family on the passing of Lester. Lester was an extraordinarily generous human being, who dedicated his life to promoting phenomenology and its practice, and preserving the memory and tradition of New School philosophy which he knew at first hand. He was always encouraging and his larger-than-life presence at conferences internationally will be missed. The Embree family can be very proud of his achievements and especially his efforts to bring together philosophers from all over the world in the practice of phenomenology. May he rest in peace.
A candle was lit by Betsy Behnke, Study Project in Phenomenology of the Body
on January 25, 2017 3:01 PM
Message from Betsy Behnke
January 25, 2017 3:00 PM
I first met Lester at the inaugural meeting of the Merleau-Ponty Circle in 1976. A bunch of us were in a dorm lounge in the evening and Lester cheerfully remarked something to the effect that if a bomb were to hit the building at that moment, the future of American phenomenology would be changed ... he always had a keen sense for the historical context of the work he was contributing to! I bring up this memory because at this sad time, I want to remember his sense of humor as well as his accomplishments. And of course those of us in the phenomenological tradition will be continuing to carry on this work.
A candle was lit by Dermot Moran
on January 25, 2017 3:00 PM
Message from Betsy Behnke
January 25, 2017 3:00 PM
I first met Lester at the inaugural meeting of the Merleau-Ponty Circle in 1976. A bunch of us were in a dorm lounge in the evening and Lester cheerfully remarked something to the effect that if a bomb were to hit the building at that moment, the future of American phenomenology would be changed ... he always had a keen sense for the historical context of the work he was contributing to! I bring up this memory because at this sad time, I want to remember his sense of humor as well as his accomplishments. And of course those of us in the phenomenological tradition will be continuing to carry on this work.
Message from Carol S. Gould
January 25, 2017 12:10 PM
My sympathy to Lester's family. Lester was my colleague since I joined the Philosophy department 25 years ago. He was a supportive, friendly, and witty presence with an interesting twist of mind. He showed me kindness and encouragement, for which I remain grateful. As his children, you should be proud of the example he set for other scholars. I am so sorry for your loss.
A candle was lit by Carol S. Gould
on January 25, 2017 12:03 PM
A candle was lit by Agata Bak
on January 25, 2017 12:01 PM
Message from Sheryl Hulet
January 25, 2017 11:35 AM
I didn't know Lester for very long, but during the length of time that I knew him, I know that I will truly miss him around the office. He always made me feel welcomed in the department, as the department secretary, from the beginning. My prayers and condolences go out to his children. I am so sorry for your loss.
A candle was lit by Sheryl Hulet.
on January 25, 2017 11:31 AM
A candle was lit by Mª Carmen López
on January 25, 2017 10:29 AM
Message from Sociedad Española de Fenomenología
January 25, 2017 10:28 AM
Thank you for your generous friendship.
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to pursue your continued Phenomenology.
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to pursue your continued Phenomenology.
A candle was lit by Mariluz. You have been a beatiful gift in our lives.Thanks!
on January 25, 2017 10:27 AM
A candle was lit by Sociedad Española de Fenomenología
on January 25, 2017 10:15 AM
A candle was lit by Evaristo
on January 25, 2017 10:12 AM
Message from Mariluz
January 25, 2017 10:02 AM
The friendship that has united us will remain forever, indelible, in the mind and in the heart. Never-ending thanks.
A candle was lit by Rosemary R.P. Lerner
on January 25, 2017 9:38 AM
Message from Marina Banchetti and Clevis Headley
January 24, 2017 7:38 PM
Clevis and I would like to express our most sincere and heartfelt condolences to the family of Lester Embree. He was our colleague for over 20 years and we shall miss him.
A candle was lit by Clevis Headley
on January 24, 2017 7:36 PM
A candle was lit by Marina Banchetti
on January 24, 2017 7:36 PM
A candle was lit by Lester Embree's son Les. I'm gonna miss you Pop.
on January 24, 2017 4:26 PM
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