Secondary Literature on Fink in English

Prepared by Ian Alexander Moore and Christopher Turner

Bertolini, Simona. “The Forces of the Cosmos before Genesis and before Life: Some Remarks on Eugen Fink’s Philosophy of the World.” Analecta Husserliana 116 (2014): 37–46.

Bruzina, Ronald. “[Reception of Fink in the] Anglo-American World.” In Eugen Fink: Sozialphilosophie–Anthropologie–Kosmologie–Pädagogik–Methodik, edited by Anselm Böhmer, 294–301. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2006.

——. Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink: Beginnings and Ends in Phenomenology. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.

——. “The Enworlding (Verweltlichung) of Transcendental Phenomenological Reflection: A Study of Eugen Fink’s ‘6th Cartesian Meditation.’” Husserl Studies 3 (1986): 3–29.

——. “Eugen Fink and Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Philosophical Lineage in Phenomenology.” In Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Husserl, edited by Lester Embree and Ted Toadvine, 173–200. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002.

——. “Ideas for Raising the Question of the World within Transcendental Phenomenology: Freiburg, 1930.” In Japanese and Western Phenomenology, edited by Philip Blosser, Eiichi Shimomissé, Lester Embree, and Hiroshi Kojima, 93–114. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1993.

——. “Solitude and Community in the Work of Philosophy: Husserl and Fink, 1928–1938.” Man and World 22 (1989): 287–314.

——. “Translator’s Introduction.” In Eugen Fink, Sixth Cartesian Meditation: The Idea of a Transcendental Theory of Method, with Textual Notations by Edmund Husserl, vii–xcii. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Cairns, Dorion. “[Review of] ‘Die Frage nach dem Ursprung der Geometrie als intentional-historisches Problem’ (‘Inquiry Concerning the Origin of Geometry: A Problem of Intentional History’), by Edmund Husserl. . . . (Preface by Eugen Fink . . .).” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 1, no. 1 (1940): 98–109.

——. “Review of Eugen Fink’s ‘The Problem of Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology,’” edited by Lester Embree, Fred Kersten, and Richard Zaner. New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 4 (2004): 323–39.

Chida, Yoshiteru. “Phenomenological Self-Reflection in Husserl and Fink.” In Japanese and Western Phenomenology, edited by Philip Blosser, Eiichi Shimomissé, Lester Embree, and Hiroshi Kojima, 81–92. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1993.

Crowell, Steven Galt. “Fink’s Untimely Nietzsche: Between Heidegger and Derrida.” International Studies in Philosophy 38, no. 3 (2006): 15–31.

——. “Gnostic Phenomenology: Eugen Fink and the Critique of Transcendental Reason.” New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 1 (2001): 257–77.

Dronsfield, Jonathan Lahey. “The Resistance of the Question to Phenomenological Reduction: Husserl, Fink and Adequacy of the Sixth Cartesian Meditation as a Response to Heidegger.” In Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of the Logos, vol. 1: Phenomenology as the Critique of Reason in Contemporary Criticism and Interpretation, edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, 293–305. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005.

Elden, Stuart. “Eugen Fink and the Question of the World.” Parrhesia 5 (2008): 48–59.

Embree, Lester. “Introduction: Dorian Cairn’s Review of Eugen Fink’s ‘The Problem of E. Husserl’s Phenomenology.’” New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 4 (2004): 319–22.

Grugan, Arthur. “Metaphysics and the Problem of Death: [Review of] Eugen Fink. Metaphysik und Tod.” Research in Phenomenology 1 (1971): 147–56.

Hart, James G. “Parts of the Fink-Husserl Conversation.” New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 1 (2001): 279–99.

Homan, Catherine. “The Play of Ethics in Eugen Fink.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 27, no. 3 (2013): 287–96.

——. “What’s at Play in Ethics.” Dissertation, Emory University. 2014. http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/fszvc.

Hyland, Drew A. The Question of Play. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984.

Krell, David Farrell. “The Heraclitus Seminar: [Review of] M. Heidegger and E. Fink. Heraclit [sic].” Research in Phenomenology 1 (1971): 137–46.

——. “Towards an Ontology of Play: Eugen Fink’s Notion of Spiel.” Research in Phenomenology 2 (1972): 63–93.

Leichtle, Sean. “Husserl and Fink: Two Phenomenologies.” New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 1 (2001): 301–17.

Mickunas, Algis. “Philosophical Anthropology of E. Fink.” Problemos 73 (2008): 167–78.

Miller, David L. Gods and Games: Toward a Theology of Play. New York: World, 1970.

Moore, Ian Alexander. “Fink’s (Heideggerean) Nietzsche, or the Possibility of a Verwindung of Metaphysics.” Purlieu Journal 1, no. 1 (2010): 53–72.

Moran, Dermot. “Fink’s Speculative Phenomenology: Between Constitution and Transcendence.” Research in Phenomenology 37 (2007): 3–31.

Sallis, John, and Kenneth Maly, eds. Heraclitean Fragments: A Companion Volume to the Heidegger/Fink Seminar on Heraclitus. University: University of Alabama Press, 1980.

Sepp, Hans Rainer. “Eugen Fink (1905–1975).” In Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics, edited by Hans Rainer Sepp and Lester E. Embree, 119–21. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010.

Wilkerson, Dale. “A ‘Dictatorship of Relativism’ and the Specter of Nietzsche: Between Heidegger and Fink.” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 84, no. 2 (2010): 257–81.

Wolf-Gazo, Ernest. “[Review of] Eugen Fink. The Basic Phenomena of Human Existence [Eugen Fink. Grundphänomene des menschlichen Daseins].” Philosophy and History 15, no. 1 (1982): 32–33.

Zahavi, Dan. “The Self-Pluralisation of the Primal Life: A Problem in Fink’s Husserl-Interpretation,” Recherches Husserliennes 2 (1994): 3–18.