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.
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...