Wege zu einer neuen Phänomenologie: Landgrebe, Fink und Patocka im Dialog.

The Ph.D. Thesis "Wege zu einer neuen Phänomenologie: Landgrebe, Fink und Patočka im Dialog” (Toward a new Phenomenology: Landgrebe, Fink and Patočka in Dialogue) focuses on the reflections of the three philosophers about phenomenology through the personal correspondence between Fink and Patočka (1933-1977) and between Patočka and Landgrebe (1940-1976). Their discussions identify some critical points inside Husserl’s thought – especially concerning the phenomenological reduction – and underline the need for phenomenology to move forward to continue his own history. From the comparison between the elements that come to light from the correspondences and the main writings of the 1930s of these philosophers, are emerging the three ways to proceed on the path of Edmund Husserl. Ludwig Landgrebe develops a new method – “Methode der Leitfäden“ – which enlightens the concept of experience (Erlebnis) as a keystone of the man’s self-understanding; Eugen Fink with his Phenomenology of Phenomenology radicalizes the doubt of phenomenological principles which leads to a world’s constitutive investigation; finally Jan Patočka theorizes an Asubjective Phenomenology which through the schematization of intentional process reaches the phenomenological understanding of existence, anticipating a historical development of the ontology of subjectivity. The three different attempts of revision have in common a non-dogmatic recover of metaphysics which allows an improvement of phenomenological philosophy without betraying its peculiar methodology to investigate the world’s phenomenon.