Contrasts for Philosophers’ Quartet: Dilthey, Husserl, Heidegger – interpreted by Georg Misch Cover Image

Kontrasztok filozófusnégyesre. Dilthey, Husserl, Heidegger – Georg Misch szemüvegén át
Contrasts for Philosophers’ Quartet: Dilthey, Husserl, Heidegger – interpreted by Georg Misch

Author(s): Gábor Boros
Subject(s): Phenomenology, Hermeneutics
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: correspondences Dilthey-Husserl; Husserl-Misch; Misch-Heidegger; phenomenology; philosophy of life; hermeneutical logic; background to the early Heidegger and the mature Husserl

Summary/Abstract: One of the most intriguing constellations in the German philosophy of the first part of the 20th century is the relations between Dilthey, Husserl, Heidegger, and Georg Misch. Misch began his career as Dilthey’s pupil and an influential professor in Göttingen, staying in contact with the today much better-known thinkers in various ways. Due to the Nazi regime, his philosophical activity was confined to the years before 1933, afterwards he elaborated on and published the volumes of his monumental History of Autobiography. His philosophical work is interesting today mostly for the profound way of his struggling with the principles of the innovative philosophies of Husserl and Hedegger, with no chance to work out his own philosophy, being and remaining too much in the shadow of Dilthey. In my paper I follow the development of their relationship from the 1911 correspondence between Dilthey and Husserl until that between Misch and Husserl, viz. Heidegger, after the publication of Misch’s Lebensphilosophie und Phänomenologie.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 05
  • Page Range: 45-54
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Hungarian