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Philosophy Criticism

Hermeneutics and Reflection

Heidegger and Husserl on the Concept of Phenomenology

by (author) Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann

translated by Kenneth Maly

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2013
Category
Criticism, General, General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442669130
    Publish Date
    Dec 2013
    List Price
    $54.00

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Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann is known as a major figure in phenomenological and hermeneutics research: he was Martin Heidegger’s personal assistant for the last ten years of Heidegger’s life, and assistant to Eugen Fink, who in turn was primary assistant to Edmund Husserl. However, his own philosophical commentaries and readings of Heidegger’s work are not familiar to many in the English-speaking world.

Von Herrmann’s Hermeneutics and Reflection, translated here from the original German, represents the most fundamental and critical reflection in any language of the concept of phenomenology as it was used by Heidegger and by Husserl. It provides a careful rendition of Husserl’s essential contribution to phenomenology, then draws a clear demarcation between Husserl’s reflective phenomenology and Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology. While showing the fullest respect for Husserl’s phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Reflection offers a full-fledged critique of Husserl from the perspective of Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology.

About the authors

Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann is an emeritus professor of Philosophy at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität of Freiburg.

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Kenneth Maly is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

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