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Mare nostrum i čvrsto tlo fenomenologije
Mare nostrum and the Firm Ground of Phenomenology

Author(s): Ugo Vlaisavljević
Subject(s): Epistemology, Contemporary Philosophy, Phenomenology
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: sea; ground; Earth; waves; allegory; metaphors; Edmund Husserl; phenomenology;

Summary/Abstract: In the “Vienna lecture”, the whole of the world’s history is at one moment depicted through the allegory of a wavy sea without borders. In The Idea of Phenomenology, the philosopher-storyteller is caught up in a heavy sea, but at the end, they finally manage to “drop the anchor on the shore of phenomenology”. With the break into the “mainland of absolute givenness” through phenomenological reduction, allegorical representation should lose its philosophical justification. However, metaphors which evoke allegories continue to proliferate even in the most rigorous phenomenological descriptions. Despite its inherent metaphoricity, so vivid that at the crucial points of Husserl’s analyses often reappears a mythical clash of land and sea, the phenomenological interpretation of the world seems nonetheless essentially non-allegorical.

  • Issue Year: 41/2021
  • Issue No: 02/162
  • Page Range: 357-372
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Croatian