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The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy In cooperation with M. BRAINARD, Frankfurt • R. BRUZINA, Kentucky A. MICKUNAS, Ohio • T. SEEBOHM, Bonn T. SHEEHAN, Stanford edited by BURT HOPKINS STEVEN CROWELL 00 m - 2003 The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy General Editors Burt Hopkins, Seattle University Steven Crowell,Rice University Contributing Editors Marcus Brainard, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Ronald Bruzina, University o f Kentucky Algis Mickunas, Ohio University Thomas Seebohm, Bonn, Germany Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University Consulting Editors Pierre Adler, New York, New York Patrick Burke,Seattle University Damian Byers, Sydney, Australia Richard Cobb-Stevens,Boston College Natalie Depraz, University o f Paris IV (Sorbonne) John Drabinski, Grand Valley State University John J. Drummond, Fordham University R. O. Elveton, Carleton College Parvis Emad,La Crosse, Wisconsin Lester Embree, Florida Atlantic University Kathleen Haney, University o f Houston, D owntown James G. Hart, Indiana University Patrick Heelan, S.J., Georgetown University Nam-In Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Christian Lotz, University o f Kansas James Mensch, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Dermot Moran, University College, Dublin, Ireland Harry Reeder, University o f Texas, Arlington James Risser, Seattle University Hans Ruin, Sodertom University College, Sweden Karl Schuhmannt, University o f Utrecht, Netherlands Marylou Sena, Seattle University Olav K.Wiegand, University o f Mainz, Germany Edith Wyschogrod, Rice University Dan Zahavi, Copenhagen, Denmark Copyright ®2003 by Taylor & Francis ISSN 1533-7472 ISBN 13: 978-0-9701679-3-4 (pbk) All rights reserved. No part of the material protected by this copyright may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any infor mation storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. Aim and Scope:The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological will providePhilosophy an an nual international forum for phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy in the spirit of Edmund Husserl’s groundbreaking work and the extension thereof in the phenomenological tradition broadly con ceived. The editors welcome the submission of manuscripts containing original research in phenomenolo gy and phenomenological philosophy, contributions to contemporary issues and controversies, critical and interpretative studies of major phenomenological figures, investigations on the relation of phenomenolo gy and phenomenological philosophy to the natural and human sciences, and historical studies and docu ments pertaining to phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy. Translations of classic and contemporary phenomenological texts are also welcome, though translators should make arrangements with the editors in advance. First published 2003 by Noesis Press Published 2015 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon 0X14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Page Intentionally Left Blank Contents I. Essays David R. C erbone Distance and Proximity in Phenomenology: Husserl and Heidegger 1 Wayne Martin The Judgment Stroke and the Truth-Predicate: Frege, Heidegger, and the Logical Representation of Judgment 27 J ames G. H art Wisdom, Knowledge, and Reflective Joy: Aristotle and Husserl 53 Raúl Gutiérrez “The Logic of Decadence”: On the Deficient Forms of Government in Plato’s Republic 73 J acques Derrida Phenomenology and the Closure of Metaphysics: Introduction to the Thought of Husserl (1966) 103 H erbert Boeder Derrida’s Endgame 121 C arl Friedrich Gethmann Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Logical Intuitionism: On Oskar Becker’s Mathematical Existence 143 H ans Rainer Sepp Essays in Honor ofHeribert Boeder on his 75th Birthday D ennis J. Schmidt On Counting, Stars, and Music 179 C laus-Artur Scheier Die Dialektik der Asymmetrie und die Instanz des Dritten. Probleme der Lévinasschen Ethik 191 Burt C. Hopkins The “Origin” of Metaphysical Thinking and the so-called “Metaphysics of Presence”: Boeder’s Contest with Heidegger 225 Klaus Erich Kaehler History of Philosophy as Philosophical Task 241 Wilhelm Metz God and the State: On the Descartes-Hobbes Analogy 255 Martín Zubiría AATNATON, AAOFON, ATOnON: On Boeder’s Discovery of the Middle Epoch of Philosophy 265 Javier Giordano AAKINQ 276 Franco Volpi Robin Rollinger Obituary: Karl Schuhmann (1941-2003) 333 Mark van Atten Author’s Notice: On Brouwer 335 N otes on Contributors 337 vìi Page Intentionally Left Blank Distance and Proximity in Phenomenology: Husserl and Heidegger David R. Cerbone West Virginia University This book may need more than one preface, and in the end there would still remain room for doubt whether anyone who had never lived through similar experiences could be brought closer to the experience of this book by means of prefaces. – Nietzsche, The Gay Science1 Perhaps this book will be understood only by someone who has himself already had the thoughts that are expressed in it—or at least similar thoughts. – Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus2 We do not philosophize in order to become philosophers, no more than to fashion for ourselves and others a salutary world-view that could be procured like a coat and hat. The goal of philosophy is not a system of interesting information, nor a sentimental edi- fication for faltering souls. Only he can philosophize who is already resolved to grant free dignity to Dasein in its radical and universal-essential possibilities, which alone makes it suitable for withstanding the remaining uncertainty and gaping discord, while at the same time remaining untouched by all the idle talk of the day. There is, in fact, a philosophical world-view, but it is not the result of philosophy and not affixed to it as a practical recipe for life. It resides rather in the philosophizing itself. Nor is it, there- fore, ever to be read off from what the philosopher may say expressly about ethical problems, but it becomes manifest in what the philosophical work is as a whole. – Heidegger, The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic3 § 1. The Phenomenological Imperative The founding imperative of phenomenology—“To the things them- selves!”—immediately suggests that those to whom it is addressed are current- —————— 1. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage Books, 1974), § 373. 2. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. D. F. Pears and B. F. McGuinness (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961), 3. 3. Martin Heidegger, The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic, trans. M. Heim (Bloom- ington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1984), 17–18. The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy III (2003): 1–26 ISSN 1533–7472 • ISBN 0-9701679-3-8 2 DAVID R. CERBONE ly at some distance from them, enduring a state of detachment or separation.4 There is perhaps little that is new in this suggestion, taken at a sufficiently high level of generality: it is not uncommon for a movement, philosophical or oth- erwise, to begin by imploring its audience to diminish the distance between itself and what matters most, be it the Forms, the Kingdom of God, Nature, or simply one another. In some cases, the desired proximity is depicted as the recovering of something once had but now lost, in others, as finding some- thing completely new. Phenomenology, as exemplified in Husserl and Heideg- ger, incorporates both of these depictions: in Husserl, the transcendental-phe- nomenological reduction affords access to an entirely “new field of experi- ence,”5 heretofore unglimpsed in the history of mankind, and yet what is grasped for the first time are precisely those operations which have been work- ing all along, the sense-constituting processes of “absolute” consciousness; in Heidegger, the etymological connotations of “reduction” (re + ducere) are ex- ploited,6 so that one is led back to something long forgotten or covered over, the meaning of being, but which has yet to receive its proper interpretation. The founding slogan, in urging us toward this renewed or newfound intima- cy, carries with it the promise of transfiguration, of what Heidegger calls “authenticity,” and what Husserl calls, variously, “autonomy,” “self-responsi- bility,” and even “an ultimately true life.”7 My interest in this paper lies in exploring this theme of distance or sepa- ration and its eventual overcoming, as it emerges in some aspects of Husserl and Heidegger. In particular, I would like to consider the question of the rela- tion between the achievement of the ideal way of life envisioned by phenom- —————— 4. See Edmund Husserl, Logical Investigations, trans. J. N. Findlay (London: Rout- ledge and Kegan Paul, 1970), 252 for the source of this imperative. See Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. J. Macquarrie and E. Robinson (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), 50 and 58 for this particular formulation. Henceforth cited as BT with page reference. 5. Edmund Husserl, Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology, trans. W. Boyce Gibson (New York: Collier Books, 1962), in his Preface to the English edition. 6. Martin Heidegger, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, trans. A. Hofstadter (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University, 1982), 21. Also see p. 11 below. 7. Authenticity (Eigentlichkeit) is a central theme of Being and Time. The first two terms ascribed to Husserl can be found throughout Cartesian