Maurice Alexander Natanson (November 26, 1924 – August 16, 1996) was an American philosopher "who helped introduce the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Edmund Husserl in the United States".
[3] A captivating speaker,[1] Natanson delivered the inaugural Alfred Schutz Memorial Lecture, "Alfred Schutz: Philosopher and Social Scientist"[4] (1995) and the Aron Gurwitsch Memorial Lecture "Illusion and Irreality"[5] (1983) at the annual meetings of the Society for Phenomenology & the Human Sciences in 1995.
He died from prostate cancer on August 16, 1996, at age 71.
[2] Natanson was the author of numerous works including: Natanson also edited The Problem of Social Reality, volume I of the collected papers of Alfred Schutz.
[1][7] A Festschrift in honor of Natanson, The Prism of the Self, published in 1995 (edited by Steven Calt Crowell), includes contributions from Fred Kersten, Lester Embree, Lewis Gordon, Thomas Luckmann, Richard Zaner, Nobuo Kazashi, Michael McDuffie, Gail Weiss, and Judith Butler.