Ortswelt und Weltraum. Eugen Fink und die Philosophie des Ortes im Gespräch

Abstract

Place-World and World-Space. Eugen Fink and Philosophy of Place in Discussion The article attempts to bring Eugen Fink’s understanding of space into a discussion with newer approaches in phenomenology and hermeneutics, which expressly focus on the notion of place. With regard to the observation that philosophy of place has as yet only scarcely referred to Eugen Fink the question arises how could it profit from a confrontation with Fink’s cosmology. Upon an introductory deliberation concerning some of the fundamentals of Edward Casey’s and Jeff Malpas’s philosophy of space, we elaborate the central aspects of Fink’s comprehension of space, in order to accentuate the common characteristics and differences between his understanding and the recent research orientation. By contrasting in this manner Fink’s cosmological thinking with the topological thinking of the philosophy of space, can with the inclusion of Fink’s notion of anthropological and social spatiality a research field be outlined, which could impart onto philosophy of place a potential practical dimension.

Keywords

• space
• place
• world
• cosmology
• topology