Preproceedings 2006 - Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society

Towards an Intercultural Phenomenology – The problem of Interculturality from … - Harald A. Wiltsche
It is important to realize, however, that these basic
structures cannot be regarded as a theoretical codification
of a certain occidental ideal of the subject. On this level of
argumentation, phenomenology cannot even be regarded
as a theory of the subject. Phenomenology deals with the
very basic structures of world-involvement and worlddirectedness
(intentionality, inner time-consciousness,
embodiment, activity and passivity and so on). Or – as
Eugen Fink has stated – neither the subject is the topic of
phenomenology, nor the world. The proper
phenomenological topic is their mutual relatedness (Fink
1933, 378). 4
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4 This essay is part of a project which is carried out with support from the FWF
(Austrian Science Fonds), Project Number: P18395-G04.
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