ABSTRACT
For Husserl, the reality of the world – that is, what the world really is – can only be attained, its authentic sense, through the analysis of the intersubjective accomplishment of consciousness, an attainment which requires the going beyond the taken-for-granted and the matter-of-course of our experiences. While every authentic experience has its own form of reality, the various forms of reality are not all equal in terms of the grade of their authenticity and of their profundity. This can certainly be said in respect of both Husserl and Heidegger, since there are many testimonies of their commitment to the search for the authenticity and for the most profound sense of reality. There is no doubt that the first duty of phenomenologists, be they of Husserlian or of Heideggerian inspiration, is to reinterpret words and concepts according to the exigencies of the phenomenological investigation.
