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Phenomenological Convergences between Fichte and Husserl

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Husserl’s Legacy in Phenomenological Philosophies

Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana ((ANHU,volume 36))

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The 1st World Congress of Phenomenology, which has brought us together here in the ancient University of Santiago de Compostela, has been organized to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Husserl by reviewing his phenomenological legacy, which has had so much influence on the philosophy of our time. The philosophical movement stemming from Phenomenology has served to restore confidence to thinkers who feared the crisis of metaphysics to be so acute that their only option was to limit it to particular sciences and, within these, to the determination and analysis of phenomena sensu stricto. The causes of this crisis — of the suspectness with which metaphysical investigation had come to be regarded — were twofold. On the one hand, certain metaphysicians, in an attempt to attain to content absolutely unconditioned by form as a metaphysical equivalent of the fulcrum with which Archimedes would have moved the world, had in fact done no more than defy the spatio-temporal limits established by Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason; among the philosophers of this tendency may be included all those following the one-sided monist tradition of Parmenides, Plotinus, Spinoza, Schelling and Hegel.

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González, M.R. (1991). Phenomenological Convergences between Fichte and Husserl. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Husserl’s Legacy in Phenomenological Philosophies. Analecta Husserliana, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3368-5_23

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