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. This book shows that Fink was actually a collaborator with Husserl, contributing indispensable elements to their common enterprise. Drawing on hundreds of notes and drafts by Fink, it highlights the scope and depth of his theories and critiques. The book places these philosophical formulations in their historical setting, organizes them around such key themes as the world, time, life, and the concept and methodo ... More
Keywords: Eugen Fink, Edmund Husserl, research assistant, phenomenologist, philosophical formulations, world, time, methodological place, meontic, transcendental-constitutive phenomenology
Print publication date: 2004 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300092097 |
Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300092097.001.0001 |