Martin Heidegger as a Phenomenologist

Abstract

Edmund Husserl once exclaimed: “Phenomenology, that is Heidegger and me.”¹ Yet, this exuberant spirit of co-operation came to a sudden end as soon as Husserl discovered that Heidegger, instead of bracketing Being, had bracketed Husserl. Although from the very beginning Heidegger had accepted the leitmotiv of Husserl’s phenomenology “Zu den Sachen selbst” (To the things themselves), he took the liberty of interpreting and developing phenomenology in his own way, which resulted in a total rejection of the transcendental subjectivism of Husserl.