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Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink: Beginnings and Ends in Phenomenology: 1928-1938.

Publication: Journal of Phenomenological Psychology
Publication Date: 22-MAR-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink: Beginnings and Ends in Phenomenology: 1928-1938.(Book review)

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Ronald Bruzina, Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink: Beginnings and Ends in Phenomenology: 1928-1938. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004) 627 pp. $45.00 (Cloth).

This book covers the last 10 years of Husserl's life and his cooperation with his assistant at the time, Eugen Fink, as well as Fink's independent line of thinking with respect to phenomenological philosophy. Fink had followed several of Heidegger's lectures in Freiburg while at the same time working closely with Husserl on several of his manuscripts, but he was also an independent philosophical thinker who saw certain problems in a different light from his two masters. This is a very important book for the phenomenological movement because it records how phenomenology became a philosophical mode of thinking detached from its two most famous innovators, Husserl and Heidegger.

Ron Bruzina does an excellent job of recording and documenting the struggles Husserl went through in his last years in trying to come up with a satisfactory systematic statement about the nature of phenomenology. One has often read in the literature how Husserl proclaimed that...

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