Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2014
Abstract
This article analyzes how phenomenologists philosophically reacted to the First World War. Edmund Husserl and Max Scheler are convinced that the specific experience of the borderline of daily life possibly made in war could similarly be experienced in the radical individual act of phenomenology, making it the point of departure for a new type of philosophical pursuit directed toward genuine solidarity.
A late echo of these philosophical thoughts can be found in the work of Jan Patočka in his Heretical Essays in which he maintains a "solidarity of the shaken".