Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink: Beginnings and Ends in Phenomenology, 1928?1938

by Ronald Bruzina

Overview

Eugen Fink was Edmund Husserl’s research assistant during the last decade of the renowned phenomenologist’s life, a period in which Husserl’s philosophical ideas were radically recast. In this landmark book, Ronald Bruzina shows that Fink was actually a collaborator with Husserl, contributing indispensable elements to their common enterprise.
Drawing on hundreds of hitherto unknown notes and drafts by Fink, Bruzina highlights the scope and depth of his theories and critiques. He places these philosophical formulations in their historical setting, organizes them around such key themes as the world, time, life, and the concept and methodological place of the “meontic,” and demonstrates that they were a pivotal impetus for the renewing of “regress to the origins” in transcendental-constitutive phenomenology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780300130157
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Publication date:	10/01/2008
Series:	Yale Studies in Hermeneutics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Ronald Bruzina is professor of philosophy at the University of Kentucky.

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Table of Contents

Contents

Preface....................xiii
Abbreviations....................xxi
Chapter 1. Contextual Narrative: The Freiburg Phenomenology Workshop, 1925-1938....................1
Chapter 2. Orientation I: Phenomenology Beyond the Preliminary....................73
Chapter 3. Orientation II: Who Is Phenomenology? Husserl-Heidegger?....................128
Chapter 4. Fundamental Thematics I: The World....................174
Chapter 5. Fundamental Thematics II: Time....................224
Chapter 6. Fundamental Thematics III: Life and Spirit, and Entry into the Meontic....................316
Chapter 7. Critical-Systematic Core: The Meontic-in Methodology and in the Recasting of Metaphysics....................375
Chapter 8. Corollary Thematics I: Language....................452
Chapter 9. Corollary Thematics II: Solitude and Community-Intersubjectivity....................482
Chapter 10. Beginning Again after the End of the Freiburg Phenomenology Workshop, 1938-1946....................521
Appendix: Longer Notations....................545
Index....................585

Editorial Reviews

"This book constitutes a watershed in our understanding of the phenomenological movement, and should become a basic reference work for all workers in the field."—Theodore Kisiel, Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy, Northern Illinois University

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