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_id: '48831'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: This essay attempts to spell out what might be left of Husserlian phenomenology
    when one leaves behind Husserl’s own grounding ambitions. Husserl construes transcendental
    phenomenology as first philosophy. In a pragmatist vein of leaving it behind in
    the interest of something other, I discuss what would happen if one were to ‘pragmatize’
    phenomenology. After first laying out Husserl’s vision, in a second part I reconstruct
    the motives that led to it in reaction to a ‘Cartesian anxiety’ of not securing
    an indubitable ground of knowledge. After that, the article spells out some pragmatic
    reflections on what phenomenology would be, without the need to secure foundations
    of knowledge. Such a liberation would in effect enable phenomenology to more fully
    make true on the ideals of the Enlightenment (which Rorty, too, underwrites) of
    emancipating oneself of one of the last vestiges of a dogmatic slumber.
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Sebastian
  full_name: Luft, Sebastian
  id: '55271'
  last_name: Luft
citation:
  ama: 'Luft S. Phenomenology without Foundations = Pragmatism? Or: What is Left of
    Phenomenology After a Pragmatic Critique. <i>Phänomenologische Forschungen</i>.
    2019;(2):91-114.'
  apa: 'Luft, S. (2019). Phenomenology without Foundations = Pragmatism? Or: What
    is Left of Phenomenology After a Pragmatic Critique. <i>Phänomenologische Forschungen</i>,
    <i>2</i>, 91–114.'
  bibtex: '@article{Luft_2019, title={Phenomenology without Foundations = Pragmatism?
    Or: What is Left of Phenomenology After a Pragmatic Critique}, number={2}, journal={Phänomenologische
    Forschungen}, publisher={Felix Meiner Verlag }, author={Luft, Sebastian}, year={2019},
    pages={91–114} }'
  chicago: 'Luft, Sebastian. “Phenomenology without Foundations = Pragmatism? Or:
    What Is Left of Phenomenology After a Pragmatic Critique.” <i>Phänomenologische
    Forschungen</i>, no. 2 (2019): 91–114.'
  ieee: 'S. Luft, “Phenomenology without Foundations = Pragmatism? Or: What is Left
    of Phenomenology After a Pragmatic Critique,” <i>Phänomenologische Forschungen</i>,
    no. 2, pp. 91–114, 2019.'
  mla: 'Luft, Sebastian. “Phenomenology without Foundations = Pragmatism? Or: What
    Is Left of Phenomenology After a Pragmatic Critique.” <i>Phänomenologische Forschungen</i>,
    no. 2, Felix Meiner Verlag , 2019, pp. 91–114.'
  short: S. Luft, Phänomenologische Forschungen (2019) 91–114.
date_created: 2023-11-14T11:49:57Z
date_updated: 2023-11-14T11:50:16Z
department:
- _id: '813'
extern: '1'
issue: '2'
language:
- iso: eng
page: 91-114
publication: Phänomenologische Forschungen
publisher: 'Felix Meiner Verlag '
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title: 'Phenomenology without Foundations = Pragmatism? Or: What is Left of Phenomenology
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year: '2019'
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