4 papers in the library · publishing 2017-2026
Quiet Powers of the Possible January 13, 2026 Françoise Dastur
In this interview, Françoise Dastur discusses her formation as a phenomenologist, her scholarly work on the history of phenomenology, and her phenomenology of human finitude and mortality.
Questions of Phenomenology June 1, 2017 Françoise Dastur, Robert Vallier
This chapter examines the philosophical reflections of Jan Patočka and Martin Heidegger regarding phenomenology and the question of human phenomena. According to Patočka, Heidegger is the thinker who realized Wilhelm Dilthey's idea of “understanding the human on the basis of the human” by starting from what separates the human from all other beings, without recourse to anything foreign to...
Questions of Phenomenology June 1, 2017 Françoise Dastur, Robert Vallier
This chapter examines the philosophical reflections of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger regarding the phenomenology of the event. It proposes a kind of philosophy that should be able to take account of the very passage of time and its eventality, or structural “eventuality,” and shows that this “true” philosophy is phenomenology. What unites Husserl and Heidegger is the idea that...
Questions of Phenomenology June 1, 2017 Françoise Dastur, Robert Vallier
This chapter examines Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl's concept of God from a phenomenological point of view. Husserl is not content merely to recognize as the “principle of principles” the originary presence of the thing to consciousness; he also excludes the concept of a God who would escape the laws of intentionality. God is not only a limiting-concept for philosophy, but is also what is...