ABSTRACT
From the phenomenological decade of Eugen Fink's research, readers must distinguish a stage that starts with beginning of Fink's teaching at University of Freiburg in 1946. Now, transcendental phenomenology is considered by Fink's as inadequate to clarify those dimensions of "space", "time" and "movement", which are not "things" that come to phenomenological givenness, but ways in which the world as whole deploys itself. The cosmic movement of appearing and individuation of beings cannot be the object of intuition and description as it is in the phenomenological method, which remains bounded to phenomena that are given, but requires the transition to speculative thought. If in Fink’s cosmological thought man has no longer an absolute cosmic centrality, as in subject-oriented philosophies, he retains, however, a primacy among all beings. Indeed, man, unlike other living beings, does not confine himself to follow a predesignated way, that is, to live according to fixed patterns, but he projects himself ceaselessly and engages himself in projects.
