Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants
Title
Heidegger's Methodological Maxim
Department
Philosophy Department
College
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Date Range
2013-2014
Disciplines
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Abstract
In the Introduction to Being and Time Heidegger calls To the things themselves the maxim of phenomenology. I argue that Heidegger recognized the maxims normativity but thought that Husserls understanding of it made it an inadequate guide for the phenomenological method. I show that Heidegger revised the maxim in his Marburg years with a focus on its role as a principle. The revised maxim specifies how to engage in phenomenological inquiry by calling the phenomenologists attention to the violence our fore-conceptions can do to the way phenomena show themselves. With this revised maxim in mind I reconsider the grounds of Heideggers critique of Husserl in the Marburg years, and explain his conclusion that Husserls phenomenology was unphenomenological. Finally, I show that Heideggers attempts to abide by his more rigorous maxim appear to fail.
Conference Name
North American Heidegger Circle
Conference Location
St. Petersburg, FL
ScholarWorks Citation
Klaskow, Tyler, "Heidegger's Methodological Maxim" (2014). Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants. 867.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fsdg/867
