FRIEDRICH-WILHELM VON HERRMANN “HERMENEUTICS AND REFLECTION: HEIDEGGER AND HUSSERL ON THE CONCEPT OF PHENOMENOLOGY”
FRIEDRICH-WILHELM VON HERRMANN “HERMENEUTICS AND REFLECTION: HEIDEGGER AND HUSSERL ON THE CONCEPT OF PHENOMENOLOGY”

Summary/Abstract: The review provides an outline of the book and critically examines the Heideggerean hermeneuticphenomenological approach developed by F.-W. von Herrmann to the refutation of Husserl’sphenomenology. Reviewer traces four essential differences in author’s critical analysis of the twophenomenological approaches by Heidegger and Husserl, and problematizes several difficulties inthe author’s interpretation of Husserl’s phenomenology. On the one hand, the reviewer shows thatHusserl’s phenomenology, at least, can be interpreted in two ways, namely the static approach andthe genetic approach. Husserl’s genetic phenomenology, especially in Crisis, explicitly expresseshis hermeneutic character. Therefore, Herrmann’s interpretation may not be faithful to Husserl’sphenomenology as a whole. On the other hand, Herrmann develops Heidegger’s idea of the primacyof a-reflective hermeneutics, which is a pre-theoretical primordial science. With reference to K.Popper’s and K. Jaspers’ criteria of science, the reviewer doubts that the development, which aims atgoing beyond reflective and theoretical science, can still be regarded as a science because it cannotmeet any established criterion.

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