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Феноменологичната антропология. Проблеми и контексти
Phenomenological anthropology. Problems and contexts

Author(s): Paula Angelova
Subject(s): Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Phenomenology
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: phenomenological anthropology; transcendental person; Dasein; Husserl; Heidegger

Summary/Abstract: This research explores the complex and paradoxical relationship between phenomenology and anthropology that Husserl bequeathed to us. Do the two remain simply two antinomic concepts in Husserl’s phenomenology, or does his late legacy harbor in latent form an original program of phenomenological anthropology of a transcendental order. These are the main questions at the centre of this study. The first part will unfold a historical reconstruction of the emergence of phenomenological anthropology on the basis of Husserl’s phenomenology. The second part offers an alternative reading of the discussion between Heidegger and Husserl in the context of their joint work on the article “Phenomenology” for the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1927. In this context, the core of a number of issues surrounding phenomenological anthropology will be touched upon, foregrounding the being modus of human existence and the possible problems facing an anthropology that could not be restrained within the classical notion of phenomenology as a rigorous science.

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