Phenomenology and Existentialism in the Twentieth Century: by Konrad Rokstad (auth.), Prof. A-T. Tymieniecka (eds.)

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By Konrad Rokstad (auth.), Prof. A-T. Tymieniecka (eds.)

Our world’s cultural circles are permeated by way of the philosophical affects of phenomenology and existentialism and the illuminations of routine following on them. those quests to clarify rationality – ever renewed within the development of notion – took their certain inspirations from Kierkegaard’s existentialism plumbing the subterranean resource of subjective event and Husserl’s phenomenology concentrating on the constitutive point of rationality. From a century’s distance, notwithstanding, we will see that those that persisted Husserl’s investigations and the existentialists may perhaps meet and mingle effectively simply because that they had this in universal, the vindication of complete fact.

The initiatives melded within the inquisitive minds (Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Stein, Merleau-Ponty, et al.) and various philosophical matters have been increased in a number of views (the lived physique, subjectivity, personhood, etc.) In a fruitful cross-pollination of insights, rules, ways, fused in a single strong wave and undermined the dominant reductionism, empiricism, naturalism then being disseminated all through technology and all domain names of proposal.

Existentialist rejection of ratiocination and hypothesis including Husserl’s shift to looking the genesis of that means in adventure closed a niche among philosophy and literature (Wahl, Marcel, Berdyaev, Wojtyla, Tischner, etc.), the foundational nature of language (Wittgenstein, Derrida, etc.) and opened the "hidden" in the back of the "veils" (see herein Sezgin and Dominguez-Rey).

This wondrous renewing wind had not just reworked the tradition of our day, yet has additionally prepared the ground to the renewal of our humanity in a brand new Enlightenment, to which we are going to go in our following 3rd and ultimate quantity during which we take pleasure in the impression and promise of Phenomenology and Existentialism within the 20th century.

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What reflection now is trying to do is the catching up with itself in its always pulsating inter-relation with the un-reflected – thus constituting itself in the “middle-between” opening itself as the field of historicity, grounding itself in the always pulsating historical human life within the life-world that belongs to each and everyone, and is both universal and (only) one. 27 And this is what M-P now further interrogates in regard to what this will do to reflection and the absolute consciousness itself.

Bruzina’s Introduction to E. Fink Sixth Cartesian Meditation, Indiana University Press 1995, p. xxvi. 11 This might, of course, appear as a matter of discussion, and it also was an issue Husserl returned to during most of his lifelong work – and it still was a major issue even in the Crisis. 12 We might perhaps, also say this is about some “[. ] vital movement of the coexistence and the interweaving of original formations and sedimentations of meaning”. , thus in a way structuring our interpretation of the development of Husserl’s own philosophy after the structure of the historical reflection in the Crisis itself.

Between the “deeper” and the higher layers of constitution, we perceive the singular relationship of Selbstvergessenheit that Husserl already names in Ideen II, and that he was to take up again later in the theory of sedimentation. (PhaS, p. 173) As M-P thus makes thematic that Selvstvergessenheit and the theory of sedimentation, we now more explicit enter the field of historicity again. It is highly relevant in regard to the (living) inter-relationship between intercorporality and logical objectivity.

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