Metaphysics, Facticity, Interpretation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Metaphysics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Phenomenology and Metaphysics

      • Dan Zahavi

      Pages 3-22

   3. The Living Body and its Position in Metaphysics: Merleau-Ponty’s Dialogue with Descartes

      • Sara Heinämaa

      Pages 23-48

   4. Perceptual Intimacy and Conceptual Inadequacy: A Husserlian Critique of McDowell’s Internalism

      • Frode Kjosavik

      Pages 49-71

3. Facticity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. Three Ways of Retrieving Heidegger: The Case of Architecture

      • Sven-Olov Wallenstein

      Pages 75-89

   3. Mood and Method in Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit

      • Anne Granberg

      Pages 91-113

   4. On Levinas’ Critique of Husserl

      • Søren Overgaard

      Pages 115-138

   5. The Birth of Man

      • Johanna Oksala

      Pages 139-163

4. Interpretation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Truth and the Hermeneutic Experience: A Phenome-nological Approach to the Theory of Interpretation

      • Hans Ruin

      Pages 167-194

   3. The Poetics of Language: Readings of Heidegger’s On the Way to Language

      • Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

      Pages 195-215

   4. Hegel’s Challenge to the Early Heidegger

      • Thomas Schwarz Wentzer

      Pages 217-238

5. Back Matter

   Pages 239-245

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The past decade has witnessed a notable turn in philosophical orientation in the Nordic countries. For the first time, the North has a generation of philosophers who are oriented to phenomenology. This means a vital rediscovery of the phenomenological tradition as a partly hidden conceptual and methodological resource for taking on contemporary philosophical problems.
The essays collected in the present volume introduce the reader to the phenomenological work done in the Nordic countries today. The material is organized under three general headings: metaphysics, facticity, and interpretation.
The first part, "Metaphysics", asks if phenomenology is, or could be taken as, a metaphysical inquiry. It studies this possibility in a systematic as well as in a historical perspective. The second part, "Facticity", focuses on the double character of the philosophizing subject, on the one hand, as a worldly being bound by a cultural and historical situation, and on the other hand, as the one who thinks this condition and gives it an interpretation. It studies four aspects of facticity in particular: language, dwelling, alterity, and generation. The third part, "Interpretation", clarifies the different notions of interpretation central to phenomenology, understood as hermeneutics.

• Edmund Husserl
• Emmanuel Lévinas
• Martin Heidegger
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• body
• concept
• hermeneutics
• language
• phenomenology

• University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  Dan Zahavi

• University of Helsinki, Finland

  Sara Heinämaa

• Södertörn University College, Stockholm, Sweden

  Hans Ruin

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