EINIGE BEMERKUNGEN ÜBER FINKS INTERPRETATION DER PHÄNOMENOLOGIE DES GEISTES UND HEGELS EINFLUSS AUF DIE WELTPHILOSOPHIE
SOME REMARKS ON EUGEN FINK’S INTERPRETATION OF PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT AND HEGEL’S INFLUENCE ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD

Summary/Abstract: Phenomenology of Spirit and Hegel’s conception of the absolute had a decisive role in the genesis anddevelopment of Eugen Fink’s philosophy. While Husserl and Heidegger showed Fink two differentand fruitful ways to interpret phenomenology, Hegel suggested and offered him the conceptual meanswith which to combine these theoretical models and elaborate a third phenomenological paradigm,based on the concept of world. This is not only valid for Fink’s early interpretation of Husserl’sthought, but also (and especially) for the version of phenomenology that Husserl’s last researchassistant developed after World War II and the death of the old professor. Two goals characterize thissecond phase of Fink’s phi-losophy: on the one hand, the purpose to pose the fundamental question ofBeing anew, without mistak-ing it for the «ontic» question referred to beings and things (in accordwith Heidegger’s indications and with the concept of «ontological difference»); on the other hand, thepurpose to combine ontology, so interpreted, with genetic phenomenology and its rigorous method.The aim of the paper is to highlight how and to what extent the realization of this philosophicalproject is based on the interpretation of both Hegel’s idealism and of the experience of consciousnessHegel describes in Phenomenology of Spirit. Assuming that Fink is looking for an ontological groundcoinciding with the genesis of the structure of the world (in accord with the concept ofphenomenological reduction), Hegel appears as the Western philosopher whose system of thoughtoffers a conceptual model in accordance with such a requirement.

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