The intertwining of phenomenology and philosophical anthropology

From Husserl to Plessner

Jaroslava Vydrová(Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences)

pp. 41-62

The aim of the article is to describe the points of contact between Edmund Husserl's phenomenology and Helmuth Plessner's philosophical anthropology. In the text I go through three steps: first, I describe Plessner's suggestion concerning anthropology, its methodology, field of investigation and principles; sedond, I discuss how the culminating points of Husserl's phenomenology and this version of philosophical anthropology enable (and require) us to specify the methodological question as well as the common point of departure. Third, this leads to the issue of the possible benefits of this Wechselwirkung for the concept of culture.