Phänomenologische Werkstatt

The fourth volume of the ‘Phenomenological Workshop’ is the first publication to establish the link between Eugen Fink’s early phenomenological writings and the works he published after the war. Of particular philosophical interest are his drafts on ‘Ontological Experience’ (1939). Together with his ‘Elements of a Critique of Husserl’ (1940) and his ‘Notes on the Philosophy of Heidegger’ (1939), they reveal that Fink reached an important turning point in his philosophical thinking. Through the ‘Notebooks’ he wrote during his military service, it becomes even more obvious that his phenomenological endeavours became more independent and ultimately led to the ‘cosmological’ philosophy of his later works.