Individuation und ontologische Erfahrung. Die philosophische Entwicklung des frühen Fink im Lichte seiner Auseinandersetzung mit Heidegger

Abstract

Individuation and Ontological Experience. The Philosophical Development of the Early Fink in Light of His Confrontation with Heidegger Eugen Fink’s philosophy confronts us with a complexity of conceptual constellations that, in their integrity, are specifically aimed at a deep questioning of our way of thinking and of the metaphysical foundations of our experience and understanding of the world. Taking account of the newest materials in Fink’s Collected Works, the following paper 1) proposes a brief distinction of the denominations of Eugen Fink’s early philosophical project, in order to describe the basic lines of his philosophy and to characterize its basic features by approaching “the deepest philosophical problem of all,” as Fink itself affirmed, namely the question of individuation. Thereby, the paper will unveil 2) an essential aspect of Fink’s early confrontation with Heidegger, in order to trace the premises and consequences of Fink’s “cosmological thinking.”

Keywords

• eugen fink
• ontogonic metaphysics
• ontological experience
• essence
• individuation