David Carr (born 1940, in Parkersburg, West Virginia[2]) is an American phenomenology scholar and a Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Philosophy from Emory University.
[1] Professor Carr's research, publication and teaching have been devoted to various aspects of Edmund Husserl's philosophy and to phenomenology in general.
Carr's work is explicitly opposed to that of Louis Mink, Hayden White, and Roland Barthes; Carr considered the basis of narrative structure to inhere in the human phenomenology of experience, even if not in what he described as "merely physical" events.
[5] He is a former Executive Secretary and Board Member of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and serves on the editorial boards of the philosophical series published by Indiana University Press and Northwestern University Press, and by Springer Verlag.
[16] He is the author of numerous essays,[17][18][19][20][21][22] a collection of which is translated into Japanese,[3] and a longstanding contributor to History and Theory.