Eugen Fink
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Eugen Fink was a German
philosopher.
. He spent his first school years with an uncle who was a catholic priest. Fink attended a gymnasium in Konstanz
where he succeeded with his extraordinary memory. After his graduation exam in 1925, he studied philosophy, history, German language and economics, initially at Münster and Berlin and then in Freiburg with Edmund Husserl
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Germany
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philosopher.
Biography
Fink was born in 1905 as the son of a government official in GermanyGermany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. He spent his first school years with an uncle who was a catholic priest. Fink attended a gymnasium in Konstanz
Konstanz
Konstanz is a university city with approximately 80,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Lake Constance in the south-west corner of Germany, bordering Switzerland. The city houses the University of Konstanz.-Location:...
where he succeeded with his extraordinary memory. After his graduation exam in 1925, he studied philosophy, history, German language and economics, initially at Münster and Berlin and then in Freiburg with Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was a philosopher and mathematician and the founder of the 20th century philosophical school of phenomenology. He broke with the positivist orientation of the science and philosophy of his day, yet he elaborated critiques of historicism and of psychologism in logic...
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Philosophy
Husserl's assistant, he was a representative of phenomenological idealism and later a follower of Martin Heidegger. He approached the problem of Being as a manifestation of the cosmic movement with Man being a participant in this movement. Fink called the philosophical problems pre-questions, that will lead to the true philosophy by the way of an ontological practice.Works
- Vom Wesen des Enthusiasmus, Freiburg 1947
- Nachdenkliches zur ontologischen Frühgeschichte von Raum - Zeit -Bewegung, Den Haag 1957
- Alles und Nichts, Den Haag 1959
- Spiel als Weltsymbol, Stuttgart 1960
- Nietzsches Philosophie, Stuttgart 1960
- Metaphysik und Tod, Stuttgart 1969
- Heraklit. Seminar mit Martin Heidegger, Frankfurt/Main 1970
- Erziehungswissenschaft und Lebenslehre, Freiburg 1970
- Sein und Mensch. Vom Wesen der ontologischen Erfahrung, Freiburg 1977
- Grundfragen der systematischen Pädagogik, Freiburg 1978
- Grundphänomene des menschlichen Daseins, Freiburg 1979
- Grundfragen der antiken Philosophie, Würzburg 1985
- Welt und Endlichkeit, Würzburg 1990
- Hegel, Frankfurt 2006 (2)
Literature
- Ronald Bruzina, Edmund Husserl & Eugen Fink: Beginnings and Ends in Phenomenology 1928-1938, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004 http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300092097
- Stuart Elden, "Eugen Fink and the Question of the World", Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy 2008;5:48-59 http://www.parrhesiajournal.org/parrhesia05/parrhesia05_elden.pdf.