The Ontological Roots of Phenomenology: Rethinking the History of Phenomenology and Its Religious Turn [Hardcover]

In The Ontological Roots of Phenomenology: Rethinking the History of Phenomenology and Its Religious Turn, Anna Jani examines the common methodological background of phenomenology. Through attention to the phenomenon of being, the existential experience of religiosity can be phenomenologically described by the ontological difference between being and beings. Jani demonstrates that the methodological inquiries connect closely with the ontological source of phenomenology. First, she elaborates on the contributions of Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Roman Ingarden, and Edith Stein from the point of view of Heideggers influence on the early phenomenologists from Husserls students. Second, she analyzes Heideggers reinterpretation of his own earlier thinking after the turn, which is formulated in the idea of the new beginning of philosophical thinking in the Contributions to Philosophy. In the context of clarifying the difference between being and beings, her third hypothesis about RicSurs critique of Heidegger reveals an ethical level. The primordiality of the ethical dimension of the action reveals the ontological foundation of the hermeneutical-phenomenological situation.Anna Jani is research fellow and lecturer of philosophy at the P?zm?ny P?ter Catholic University.

Anna Janis The Ontological Roots of Phenomenology: Rethinking the History of Phenomenology and Its Religious Turn is a synthesis of traditional scholarship, contemporary philosophy of religion, and open-minded philosophical reasoning. On the complex scene of contemporary phenomenological trends, Anna Jani focuses on the ontological question before and after Edmund Husserls philosophy. She points out that phenomenologies of religionfrom Adolf Reinach through Edith Stein to Paul RicSurunderpinned various efforts to reestablish the ontological commitment of phenomenology. Hermeneutics appears in this context as the method of finding the ontological roots of phenomenology from Dilthey to Dan Zahavi. Withl3ç