Overview
- Illuminates a critical, complex, and still insufficiently researched stage of Husserl’s development
- Focuses on Husserl’s collaboration with Fink and their disagreement over phenomenologizing activity
- Develops an account of the habitus, practical motivations, and goals of the transcendental ego
Part of the book series: Phaenomenologica (PHAE, volume 237)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book focuses on Edmund Husserl’s philosophical collaboration with Eugen Fink which took place in the early 1930s, and shows how their disagreement over the nature, origin, and aim of phenomenology led to a crucial divergence on the issue of who was engaging in phenomenology, and with what motivation. It provides a philosophical investigation of a key moment in the development of Husserl’s late phenomenology. The author claims that Husserl’s meta-phenomenological exploration of the theoretical and, importantly, practical underpinnings of the transcendental investigator leads him to affirm their humanity and, ultimately, to adopt an ethically charged ideal of “higher humanity” as telos of phenomenology.
Fink argued that phenomenology was essentially an activity beyond the horizon of human possibility and history. In contrast, Džanić illustrates how Husserl was looking for a way to theoretically unite the purity of transcendental insight with the existential reality and practical motives of the phenomenologist. Understanding the complex aspects of this debate is crucial for understanding the Crisis-period of Husserl’s thought. This text appeals to graduate students and researchers in phenomenology and related fields of philosophy.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Denis Džanić obtained his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vienna in 2021, and is now working at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Graz. He works on systematic and historical topics in the fields of phenomenology and philosophy of action.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transcendental Phenomenology as Human Possibility
Book Subtitle: Husserl and Fink on the Phenomenologizing Subject
Authors: Denis Džanić
Series Title: Phaenomenologica
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22986-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22985-5Published: 10 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22988-6Published: 10 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22986-2Published: 09 February 2023
Series ISSN: 0079-1350
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0331
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 236
Topics: Phenomenology