Quentin Lauer

Quentin Lauer, S.J. (April 1, 1917 – March 9, 1997) was an American Jesuit priest, philosopher and Hegel scholar. He was known for being a major influence in the introduction of Hegel's thought in the United States. He was President of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division from 1985-1986, and a President of the Hegel Society of America. Quentin Lauer was also a scholar of Edmund Husserl. He was a professor of philosophy at Fordham University from 1954 to 1990. Important works by Lauer which helped disseminate the ideas of Hegel and Husserl in the United States include: A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirt (1977), The Triumph of Subjectivity (1958) and Edmund Husserl:Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy(1965).