File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_1998/heidegger.9806, message 49


Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 07:43:10 -0700
From: Mike Staples <mstaples-AT-argusqa.com>
Subject: Re: was heidegger a phenomenologist at the end?


GBORGERSON-AT-delphi.com wrote:

>         So I'm wondering if in the end Heidegger considered himself a
> phenomenologist. Did he ever think of himself as a phenomenologist?
> And
> could "the turn" be characterized as a turn away from phenomenology to
>
> hermenuetics?

I'm not sure I understand the distinction you are making here, Greg.
Phenomenology and hermeneutics are not antithetical to one another. One
can be phenomenological, hermeneutically. Phenomenology refers to
alowing phenomena to show up, right? Hermeneutics refers to a particular
method of hovering between context and specifics. Within the
hermeneutics of moving back and forth between the meaning of a specific
phenomena (or lack of a specific it) which defines the context of
meaning for that phenomena, and the context of meaning which defines the
meaning of the specific phenomena, you are being phenomenological.

Michael Staples



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