From the Husserlian Transcendental Idealism to the Question on Being

Anna Varga-Jani

From the Husserlian Transcendental Idealism to the Question on Being
An Original Linkage between Phenomenology and Theology in Edith Stein’s Thinking

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26/1 – Spring 2021, pages 85-98

Date of online publication: 30 juin 2021

Date of publication: 30 juin 2021

Abstract

Well known is the fact that Husserl’s Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and phenomenological Philosophy I, published in 1913, made a strong disappointment in the phenomenological circle around Husserl, and started a reinterpretation of the husserlian phenomenology. The problem of the constitution was a real dilemma for the studentship of Munich — Göttingen. More of Husserl’s students from his Göttingen years reflected in the 1930th on the transcendental idealism, which they originated from the Ideas and found fulfilled in Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations and Formal and transzendental Logic. The remarkable similarity between these papers is the questioning on being incorporated in the problematic of the method in the husserlian phenomenology. But this parallelism in the problem reveals the origin of the religious phenomenon in the husserlian phenomenology as well. Adolf Reinach’s religious terms as gratitude (Dankbarkeit), charity (Barmherzigkeit), etc. in his religious Notes, Heidegger’s notion of being as finiteness in Being and Time, Edith Stein’s concept about the finite and eternal being in Finite and Eternal Being are originating in the problem of constitution in the transcendental phenomenology on the one hand, but these phenomenon point at the constitution theologically. In my paper I would like to show the relationship between the critique on the husserlian transcendental idealism and the roots of the experience of religious life by the phenomenological problem of being especially at Edith Stein.

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Varga-Jani, Anna. “From the Husserlian Transcendental Idealism to the Question on Being: An Original Linkage between Phenomenology and Theology in Edith Stein’s Thinking.” Forum Philosophicum 26, no. 1 (2021): 85–98. doi:10.35765/forphil.2021.2601.06.

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