Witold Plotka, Patrick Eldridge (eds.). Early phenomenology in central and easterm Europe. Main figures, ideas and problems
Witold Plotka, Patrick Eldridge (eds.). Early phenomenology in central and easterm Europe. Main figures, ideas and problems

Summary/Abstract: The collective volume Early Phenomenology in Central and Eastern Europe: Main Figures, Ideas, andProblems, edited by Witold Płotka and Patrick Eldridge, enriches the ongoing and highly topical research of the history of phenomenology with the thematization of a specific period and localizationof phenomenology. The authors of eleven chapters explore the emergence of phenomenology in localtraditions outside the Germanophone area, its appropriation and development, describing the uniqueforms it acquired in individual environments. The book clarifies the characteristics of the early waveof phenomenology and provides a list of Central and Eastern European phenomenologists who participated in it. On the one hand, the volume is a contribution to historiography, enriching the studyof the history of phenomenology thematically and thus contributing to the development of phenomenology itself; on the other hand, it introduces its own set of philosophical problems. These concernmethodology and the issue of the Central and Eastern European identity, which is examined throughthe prism of the development of local traditions of phenomenology. When exploring the latter it isuseful to introduce the concept of the marginocentric. This concept, which originated in comparativeliterature, facilitates an understanding of the unique cultural configuration of a concrete tradition in itscommunication with internal and external environments.

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