Mihailo Petrović's contributions to the philosophy of phenomenological ideas (compared to their most famous representative, Edmund Husserl)

The aim of this paper is to present phenomenology as a direction of contemporary philosophy, whose most famous representative is Edmund Husserl (Edmund Husserl, 1859-1938), from the perspective of the mathematical phenomenology of Mihailo Petrović (1868-1943) and to consider its specificities and contributions. The aim of the paper is also to present a chronology of events to indicate Petrović's beginnings in dealing with this topic, which can be observed quite early, during his studies in Paris and before the appearance of Husserl's Logical Investigations, on the basis of which Husserl is considered the founder of the phenomenological approach. This paper, among other things, also deals with the question of why there is no connection between Petrović's mathematical phenomenology and the philosophy of phenomenological ideas, although this connection undoubtedly exists and enriches European philosophical thought with its results. The aim is to explore possible reasons for this omission and what could be done to overcome it. To achieve this, the circumstances in which Petrović's mathematical phenomenology emerged as a new scientific discipline will be considered, as well as the temporal and cultural context in which these two scientists worked and created.