Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: This paper is concerned with a fundamental problem of phenomenological research, namely the question how phenomena appear.Well-known is Martin Heidegger's talking about truth as "unconcealment," coupling appearing with "concealment" or "saving."Yet besides this important stance the later Heidegger developed a quite different approach regarding the relation between Being and appearing, now centered on what he termed "the inconspicuous" (das Unscheinbare).Recently phenomenology has, based on this idea, inaugurated a new movement termed "phenomenology of the inconspicuous."While referring to the anonymous endeavor of preparing "the other beginning," Heidegger's notion of the inconspicuous also formulates an important critique, with respect to phenomenology.As can be shown, the inconspicuous is at work within appearing itself, thus leaving behind the metaphysical opposition between manifestation and concealment.It rather should be seen as a kind of tension which is indispensable for something to appear at all.This tension makes any phenomenal appearance turn from a simple aspect viewed into an "ad-spect" (An-blick), which requests the genuine "passibility" of our gaze and engages our responsiveness.
DOI: 10.25138/16.3.a9
Author: Mathias Obert
Institution: National Sun Yat-sen University
Language: German
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4380224716