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(1975) Doing Phenomenology, Den Haag, Nijhoff.

Existential uses of phenomenology

Herbert Spiegelberg

pp. 54-71

Is it at all legitimate to subject phenomenology to questions of such a pragmatic, if not utilitarian, nature as that of its human uses? Isn't it below the dignity of a true science and particularly of a philosophy which started out with the ambition of being a rigorous science to submit to this kind of a cross examination? In fact, Edmund Husserl in his historic manifesto article on "Philosophy as a Rigorous Science" solemnly disclaimed all pretensions that it could bring aid and comfort to modern man in his dire need for a philosophy of life (Weltanschauung).

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-1670-4_5

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Spiegelberg, H. (1975). Existential uses of phenomenology, in Doing Phenomenology, Den Haag, Nijhoff, pp. 54-71.

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