What is it about?
In this paper, I discuss the differences between Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. I argue against Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann's claim that we can understand these differences in terms of the notion of 'reflecting observation'.
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Why is it important?
Despite the vast scholarship on the philosophical differences between Husserl and Heidegger, the accounts offered tend toward partisanship, leading to extensive misunderstanding. This paper should go some ways as to bringing these two thinkers together while attending to the complex differences between them.
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This article was the first thing that I wrote while studying my PhD. With a keen interest in both Husserl and Heidegger, I was very excited to get my hands on a copy of von Herrmann's book. However, when I began to read it, there was something off that I could not quite put my finger on, so I decided to think it through by writing. If nothing else, I hope this article makes clear that a thorough understating of Husserl is essential to a thorough understanding of Heidegger.
Chris Edwards
Murdoch University
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This page is a summary of: Breaking Away from the Theoretical: von Herrmann on Husserl and Heidegger, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, September 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00071773.2018.1526784.
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