Table Of ContentHUSSERL'S LEGACY IN PHENOMENOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHIES
ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA
THE YEARBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
VOLUME XXXVI
Editor-in-Chief:
ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA
The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning
Belmont, Massachusetts
PHENOMENOLOGY IN THE WORLD
FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF EDMUND HUSSERL
Book 1 THE TURNING POINTS OF THE NEW PHENOMENOLOGICAL ERA
Husserl Research — Drawing upon the Full Extent of His Development
Book 2 HUSSERLIAN PHENOMENOLOGY IN A NEW KEY
Inter subjectivity, Ethos, the Societal Sphere, Human Encounter, Pathos
Book 3 HUSSERL'S LEGACY IN PHENOMENOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHIES
New Approaches to Reason, Language, Hermeneutics, the Human Condition
Book 4 NEW QUERIES IN AESTHETICS AND METAPHYSICS
Time, Historicity, Art, Culture, Metaphysics, the Transnatural
The Editor acknowledges the assistance of Robert Wise in the technical preparation of
these volumes.
HUSSERL'S L E G A CY
IN P H E N O M E N O L O G I C AL
PHILOSOPHIES
New Approaches to Reason, Language,
Hermeneutics, the Human Condition
BOOK 3
Phenomenology in the World
Fifty Years after the Death of Edmund
Husserl
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD ix
INTRODUCTION xi
PART ONE
LANGUAGE, HERMENEUTICS
ANGELA ALES BELLO I Phenomenology as Archeology vs.
Contemporary Hermeneutics 3
ROBERT D. SWEENEY I Phenomenology and Hermeneutics 17
DOMENICO JERVOLINO I Ricoeur and Husserl: Towards a
Hermeneutic Phenomenology 23
PATRICIO PENALVER G6MEZ I Phenomenology and the
Deconstruction of Sense 31
PIERRE MILLION I Can Hermeneutics Respond to the Pre-
dicament of Reason? From Husserl to Ricoeur 53
VICENT MARTfNEZ GUZMAN I On a Linguistic Phenome-
nology of "Intention" 73
URBANO FERRER SANTOS I The Hermeneutical Derivation
of Phenomenology 83
HIP6LITO RODRfGUEZ PINERO I Fenomenologia, hermen-
eutica y lenguaje 93
JUGOSLA v VLAISA VLJEVIC I Husserl's Legacy in Derrida's
Grammatological Opening 101
JUAN CARLOS COUCEIRO BUENO I La metMora en el
discurso filos6fico: A su imagen y semejanza 119
PART TWO
HUSSERL'S LEGACY IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD:
Retrieving the Sense ofL ife
CALVIN O. SCHRAG I Husserl's Legacy in the Postmodern
World 127
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CORNELIS A. VAN PEURSEN / Beyond Husserl: Bracketing
"All Possible Worlds" 135
FRANCO BOSIO / Contemporary Irrationalism and the
Betrayal of Husserl's Legacy 145
DALLA S LA S KE Y / The Constructive Critique of Reason 159
KRYSTYNA GORNIAK-KOCIKOWSKA / Anna-Teresa Tym
ieniecka's Philosophical Attitude towards Contemporary
Problems of the Relation Between Human Beings and the
World 165
MARY ROSE BARRAL / Creativity and the Critique of
Reason 177
NADIA DELLE SITE / The Human Condition and the
Specifically Human Significance of Life in the Philosophy of
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka 189
YNHUI PARK / The Unity of Being and Individualization: A
Metaphysical Odyssey 199
J A VIER LERIN RIERA / World, Praxis, and Reason 213
JOHN MURUNGI / The African and the Task of Becoming a
Phenomenologist 229
PART THREE
HUSSERL AND OTHER PHILOSOPHERS
ALGIS MICKUNAS / Landgrebe's School of Phenomenology 243
JESUS CONILL / Phenomenological Paths to Metaphysics 259
MANUEL RIOB6 GONZALEZ / Phenomenological Con-
vergences between Fichte and Husserl 269
ROBERT D. WALSH / Husserl and Levinas: Transformations
of the Epoche 283
MARIA EL6SEGUI ITXASO / The Body as the Union of the
Psychic and the Physical in Bergson and Merleau-Ponty 297
THOMAS DAMAST / Das Problem der transzendentalen
Reduktion in der phiinomenologischen Ontologie von Sartre 307
AMPARO ARINO VERDU / Husserl's Concept of "Inten-
tionality" as the Starting Point for Sartre's Thinking 331
AURELIO RIZZACASA / The Husserlian Legacy in the
Philosophy of Existence: Comments on Methodology 339
JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ GARCIA / The Character and
Limits of Sartre's Reading of Husserl 351
TABLE OF CONTENTS vii
MANUEL OLIVER MOLERO / The Philosophy of Zubiri as a
Phenomenological Philosophy 361
HAROLD RALEY / Husserlian "Reduction" Seen from the
Perspective of Phenomenological "Life" in the Ortegan
School 371
DANIELA PUccI/Ortega's Approach to Husserlian Phe-
nomenology 387
EMILIO DI VITO / Subjectivity between Logic and Life-World 395
INDEX OF NAMES 409
FOREWORD
In this third volume of a monumental four book survey of Phenome
nology world-wide fifty years after the death of its chief founder,
Edmund Husserl, we have a collection of studies which, in the first
place, consider Husserl's legacy in the postmodern world.
The extent of our indebtedness to the Master is shown in explora
tions of the archeology of knowledge, hermeneutics, and critical studies
of language by A. Ales Bello, P. Pefialver, P. Million, V. Martinez
Guzman, H. Rodriguez Pifiero, Y. Vlaisavlevich, and others. There
follow calls for renewing the critique of reason by C. Schrag, F. Bosio,
and J. Lerin Riera and discussion by D. Laskey, K. G6rniak-Kocikowska,
M. R. Barral, Y. Park, and N. Delle Site on A-T. Tymieniecka's phe
nomenology of life, which proposes a total reorientation of phenome
nology by introducing a conception of the human condition in which
the human creative act is the Archimedean point for philosophy.
Studies on Husser! and other philosophers (Fichte, Landgrebe,
Ingarden, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Ortega y Gasset, Zubiri, Levinas,
Tymieniecka) complete the book. (Among the authors are A. Mickunas,
J. Conill, T. Damast, A. Rizzacasa, M. Oliver Molero, H. Raley, and
D.Pucci.)
At several major points these studies constitute a breakthrough in
phenomenology, inaugurating a new phase in its unfolding. They were
gathered at programs held by the World Institute for Advanced Phe
nomenological Research and Learning in the commemorative year
1988/1989, chiefly the First World Congress of Phenomenology at
Santiago de Compostela, Spain, with the aim of assessing the state of
phenomenology in the world.
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ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA
WORLD-WIDE PHENOMENOLOGY FULFILLING
HUSSERL'S PROJECT
An Introduction
What is the status of Husserl's phenomenology today? Does it play any
significant role or is it relegated to strictly historical research? Has the
phenomenology initiated by Husserl come to an end? There is hardly
any orthodox Husserlian today. But what is or could be an orthodox
Husserlian?
These questions come to mind when, even after fifty years of
discussions among scholars since the death of this great master of
phenomenology, we do not have a unified interpretation of his thought.
Moreover, such a unifying interpretation is altogether impossible in
view of Husserl's unfolding of his ever-expanding doctrine down to the
very end of his life, and of his reaching ever-new perspectives. The
possibility of a consensus about his thought recedes further and further
as rival or competing interpretations have stimulated new phenome
nologists and younger representatives to move in their own directions,
often stimulated by non-Husserlian factors and nourished by new ideas.
Lastly, the now vast field of research claiming allegiance to phenome
nology is diversified into numerous sectors inspired by the developing
thought of other classic phenomenologists and their followers.
As a matter of fact, it is often pointed out that phenomenology as a
philosophical trend is not due to one single thinker but was somehow
"in the air" at the beginning of this century. We trace its direct origins
to Franz Brentano and Edmund Husserl who, as the disciple inter
preting the master's intuitions in his own fashion, had elaborated the
starting point and foundations of phenomenology as a philosophia
prima. Yet, we acknowledge that the vigor, decisiveness, convincing
force, dissemination, as well as its launching as a new philosophical
approach by Husserl was supported, invigorated and carried out by
colleagues and friends who gathered around Husserl, such as Moritz
Geiger, Fritz Kaufmann, Adolph Reinach, A. Pfaender, Oscar Becker
and Max Scheler. They joined Husserl in his convictions while he
inspired and formed a group of students around him. Their work not
only contributed initially to launching the main porte parole of this new
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way of thinking, the lahrbuch fUr Philosoph ie, but their own original
phenomenological research has inspired in the past and is now inspiring
phenomenological investigations in various regions of philosophical
questions that they respectively undertook to investigate.
In short, it is obvious that the powerful current of thought into which
phenomenology gathered its momentum was the result of the meeting
of several minds, meeting in a strong conviction and prompted by their
personal inventive and talented efforts. It was truly a significant
moment in the history of Occidental culture that gave rise to this trend
as it is certainly also a significant situation of contemporary culture at
large that phenomenology, after having formed a school of thought, did
not fold its wings after one or two generations as did NeoKantianism
but rather is being acutely heard within the world, not only Occidental
or Oriental, but within the world wherever the present culture calls for
genuine philosophical inspiration.
In view of this vast expanse of thought and research which go on in
the present day in lines of innumerable diversifications, we naturally
must ask whether there is still a trend of shared features that could fall
under the common label of "phenomenology." I answer this question
emphatically in the affirmative. It is precisely in pointing to some basic
ideas of Husserl that they converge.
Don't we find, in fact, a pervading thread of the idea of inten
tionality, although extended to new areas? Is not the expansion of
phenomenological inquiry due to the discovery of the work of constitu
tion in previously unsuspected areas? In mentioning here just these two
main tenets of classic phenomenology expanded into present-day
thought, we cannot overlook the fulguration of thought provoked by
inquiries into the later Husserl's intuitions and the subsequent dis
coveries of historical, cultural and life elements entering into and
affecting present experience.
Recognizing, on the one hand, the essential contributions to the
classic phenomenological foundation-laying phase of phenomenology
by Husserl's associates, then and now a valid source of our investiga
tion, and, on the other hand, the innovative philosophical work by the
following generation, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Rombach and others not
forgetting such mavericks as Heidegger and Ortega y Gasset which
improved upon the pioneering ideas of the Husserl of his earlier and
middle period, we cannot fail to acknowledge the central role which the
work of Husserl plays within the entire phenomenologically oriented
