Abstrakt
The preface introduces Ming-Hon Chu's study on early Fink. It shows how the author uncovers a connection between two research horizons in Fink's 1930 dissertation Vergegenwärtigung und Bild: between a phenomenology of dream and a phenomenology of hyperbolic doubt.
While the comparability between the waking and dream states has long been disputed, Fink's analyses of sunkenness as a liminal case of Vergegenwärtigung bring to light the legitimacy of such a possible comparison. Moreover, his original clarification of concepts such as absurdity, transfinite intention, nothingness, and trans-world contributes to a phenomenological grounding of hyperbolic doubt and expands our understanding of the transcendental instability of worldliness.