PHENOMENOLOGY WITHOUT 'PHENOMENON' - ERNST CASIRER'S CASE

• Authors: Choi Kyeong-Seop
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Ernst Cassirer's place in the 20th century philosophy is quite puzzling. Is it an appropriation of Kant's transcendental philosophy for inclusion of relativity theory and quantum physics? Is it a Hegelian type of philosophy of culture and spirit? Or, at the face value, is it a direct heritage and application of the Marburg School of neo-Kantianism initiated by Hermann Cohen? It is very surprising to hear Cassirer's confession that he is also influenced by Edmund Husserl's 'phenomenology': whereas the basic idea of phenomenology is to do away with all theoretical constructions and start anew from the 'immediately pre-given' phenomenon, all the 'constructivist' heritage in Cassirer's philosophy resists such an idea of philosophizing the 'immediately pre-given'. Then, how should we understand the 'phenomenology' Cassirer himself professes? Re-examining the idea of phenomenology for Husserl, we discover that both Husserl and Cassirer are carrying out the same kind of 'phenomenology', phenomenology as transcendental philosophy 'par excellence'.

Keywords

EN

CASSIRER ERNST; HUSSERL E.; MARBURG NEO-KANTIANISM; MEANING OF PHENOMENOLOGY; PHENOMENOLOGY

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 262-274
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Choi Kyeong-Seop

• Kyeong-Seop Choi, Universität Würzburg, Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09SKAAAA05974