Michael Staudigl: Philosophy and its Other: Phenomenological Reflections on Religious Violence

Lecture by Dr. Michael Staudigl (University of Vienna Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna) organized by the Department of the History of Philosophy

"The impulse of research must proceed not from philosophies but from things [von den Sachen] and from the problems." In this way, Husserl famously presented his basic conviction concerning the idea of a phenomenological philosophy. In this presentation, I will attempt to relate Husserl's conviction to the momentous challenge that one of his major successors, Merleau-Ponty, has written into...(continue reading...)