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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

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