ABSTRACT

In this paper, I examine how the “phenomenology of phenomenology” was approached by two phenomenologists: Eugen Fink and Edmund Husserl. In particular, the paper focuses on how the two philosophers interpreted the transcendental reduction and enworlding. Comparing the two philosopher’s approach will ultimately show that there is no need to distinguish between phenomenologizing [Phänomenologisieren] and constituting [Konstituieren], thereby overcoming the duality of being [Seinsdualismus] that Fink posited in the Sixth Cartesian Meditation. By overcoming this duality, the paper clarifies the relationship between the transcendental and the mundane.